Mussels from Puget Sound test positive for opioids, other drugs!
Shellfish in the Puget Sound, an inlet of the Pacific Ocean along the
northwest coast of Washington, tested positive for the prescription
opioid oxycodone. But that wasn't all, according to Washington Department of Fish and
Wildlife biologist Jennifer Lanksbury. In the midst of a national opioid
crisis, the opioid may be the most attention-grabbing contaminant
found, but it could be the least worrisome. The mussels also
contained four kinds of synthetic surfactants -- the chemicals found in
detergents and cleaning products -- seven kinds of antibiotics, five
types of antidepressants, more than one antidiabetic drug and one
chemotherapy agent. Surfactants, in particular, are "known to
have estrogenic effect on organisms, so they affect the hormone system
of some animals in an estrogenic way, such as feminizing male fish and
making female fish reproductive before they're ready," Lanksbury
explained. Scientists have not studied whether mussels are harmed by oxycodone.
However, the presence of this drug in the mollusk speaks to the high
number of people in the urban areas surrounding the Puget Sound who take
this medication, said Lanksbury.
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