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Fish on Prozac.


The U.S. EPA is in the process of deciding whether regulations are needed for pharmaceuticals in water supplies. Studies now coming through the research pipeline may help the EPA with its decision. In a study presented at the November 2003 annual meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, Baylor University Baylor University, mainly at Waco, Tex.; coeducational; chartered and opened 1845 by Baptists (see Baylor, Robert E. B.) at Independence, moved 1886 and absorbed Waco Univ. (chartered 1861). The library has a noted Robert Browning collection. Frank Lloyd Wright designed a theater center at Dallas for the graduate school. The university's medical school was founded (1900) as part of the Univ. of Dallas, and it became affiliated with Baylor in 1903.'s Bryan Brooks determined that fluoxetine fluoxetine /flu·ox·e·tine/ (floo-ok´se-ten) a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor used as the hydrochloride salt in the treatment of depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, bulimia nervosa, and premenstrual dysphoric disorder. hydrochloride (the active ingredient in the antidepressant Prozac Pro·zac (przk) excreted into the sewer system is accumulating in the tissues of bluegill bluegill: see sunfish. caught in nearby Denton Creek. Waste treatment systems often are ill-equipped to remove such contaminants from sewage.
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Title Annotation:The Beat
Author:Dooley, Erin E.
Publication:Environmental Health Perspectives
Date:Jan 1, 2004
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