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Study Shows Ocean Fish Loaded With Pharmaceuticals

Tim Meads
Study Shows Ocean Fish Loaded With Pharmaceuticals
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A new three-year study reports that pharmaceuticals are filling the ocean, causing fish to consume the substances and become literally filled with drugs.

Scientists at Florida International University and the Bonefish and Tarpon Trust (BTT) analyzed 93 different fish off the coast of Florida and each one had drugs of some sort in its system. The average fish had seven different prescription drugs found throughout their body — some as many as 16.

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