[Pharmwaste] RE: Pharmwaste digest, Vol 1 #111 - 3 msgs

Pistell, Ann E Ann.E.Pistell@maine.gov
Wed, 10 Aug 2005 09:49:08 -0400


Cynthia Greenes piece did not come through at all.  Can you just resend it
alone?
Ann 

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Today's Topics:

   1. Rivers of Coke (Tenace, Laurie)
   2. Fw: inside epa story on pharmaceuticals in water
(greene.cynthia@epamail.epa.gov)
   3. RNRF Congress on Emerging Contaminants (Tenace, Laurie)

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Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 08:17:39 -0400
From: "Tenace, Laurie" <Laurie.Tenace@dep.state.fl.us>
To: <pharmwaste@lists.dep.state.fl.us>
Subject: [Pharmwaste] Rivers of Coke

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Drug enforcement officials may soon have an accurate yet secret way to =
detect drug use -- the toilets of the world.=20

Italian scientists discovered that nearly 10 pounds of cocaine residues =
flow into Italy's Po River every day.=20

How is Italy's biggest river getting all that coke? From urine. Turns = out
that coke users, like beer drinkers, just rent their substance of = choice.
Although in the case of cocaine, it's transformed by the liver into
benzoylecgonine , or BE, before being excreted. BE can't be produced by =
any other means, so when it's found in your urine sample, that spells =
trouble with a big T.=20

Revealed Friday in the journal Environmental Health, this is the first =
time the byproducts of illicit drugs like cocaine have been detected in
river water.=20

More surprisingly, the level of residues translates into at least 40,000
daily doses of coke snorted by residents of the Po Valley -- a great = deal
more than official estimates of 15,000 doses of cocaine per month.=20

"We expected our field data on cocaine consumption to give estimates =
within the range of the official estimates, or perhaps lower, but certainly
not higher," wrote Ettore Zuccato, of the Mario Negri Institute for
Pharmacological Research in Milan, Italy.=20

Zuccato and his co-researchers decided they could use standard lab =
techniques to test entire cities or regions and get a rough idea of the
level of = cocaine use. Statistics about drug use are notoriously
inaccurate, given that = drug users don't generally like to fill out
surveys. Since chemistry doesn't = lie, this method offers a direct way of
measuring how much coke is actually = being used.=20

The researchers first developed a method to measure how much BE was in = the
surface waters of rivers or in wastewater at sewage-treatment plants = using
liquid chromatographic separation.=20

Sampling done at other sewage-treatment plants in various Italian cities
confirmed the results.=20

"There is in fact no reasonable mechanism by which cocaine excretion =
products could accumulate in flowing surface waters," the authors wrote.=20

"It's a seminal piece of research," said Christian Daughton, chief of = the
environmental chemistry branch at the Environmental Protection Agency's =
Las Vegas laboratory.=20

Daughton, an expert on pharmaceutical products that find their way into
rivers and lakes, first suggested that illicit drug use could be = measured
this way in 2001. The technique is an anonymous, noninvasive method of
measuring drug use in a city or community, he said.=20

Depending on how far up the sewage system you go, it could also be used = to
measure drug use in a prison or neighborhood, Daughton said.=20

"I was shocked that so few scientists showed any interest in the idea at =
the time," he said.=20

Since nearly all illicit drugs have unique metabolites akin to BE, all =
types of drug use could be monitored, Daughton said. Measuring metabolites =
instead the drug itself also eliminates false readings from dumping large =
amounts of drugs down the drain.=20

Daughton said more work is needed to verify that actual drug use =
corresponds to Zuccato's estimates.=20

"There's likely more cocaine being used than Zuccato estimates," = Daughton
said.=20

http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,68434,00.html?tw=3Dwn_tophead_5

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Laurie J. Tenace

Environmental Specialist

Florida Department of Environmental Protection

2600 Blair Stone Road, MS 4555

Tallahassee, Florida 32399-2400

PH: (850) 245-8759

FAX: (850) 245-8811

Laurie.Tenace@dep.state.fl.us

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view our mercury web pages at:=20

http://www.dep.state.fl.us/waste/categories/mercury/default.htm

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<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span =
lang=3DEN style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Drug =
enforcement officials may soon have an accurate yet secret way to detect
drug use -- = the toilets of the world. </span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span =
lang=3DEN style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Italian =
scientists discovered that nearly 10 pounds of cocaine residues flow into
Italy's = Po River every day. </span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span =
lang=3DEN style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>How is
Italy's = biggest river getting all that coke? From urine. Turns out that
coke = users, like beer drinkers, just rent their substance of choice.
Although in the case = of cocaine, it's transformed by the liver into
benzoylecgonine , or BE, = before being excreted. BE can't be produced by
any other means, so when it's = found in your urine sample, that spells
trouble with a big T. </span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span =
lang=3DEN style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Revealed
Friday = in the journal Environmental Health, this is the first time the
byproducts of = illicit drugs like cocaine have been detected in river
water. </span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span =
lang=3DEN style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>More =
surprisingly, the level of residues translates into at least 40,000 daily
doses of coke = snorted by residents of the Po Valley -- a great deal more
than official = estimates of 15,000 doses of cocaine per month.
</span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span =
lang=3DEN style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>&quot;We
= expected our field data on cocaine consumption to give estimates within
the range of = the official estimates, or perhaps lower, but certainly not
higher,&quot; = wrote Ettore Zuccato, of the Mario Negri Institute for
Pharmacological = Research in Milan, Italy. </span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span =
lang=3DEN style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Zuccato
and his co-researchers decided they could use standard lab techniques to
test = entire cities or regions and get a rough idea of the level of cocaine
use. = Statistics about drug use are notoriously inaccurate, given that drug
users don't generally like to fill out surveys. Since chemistry doesn't lie,
this = method offers a direct way of measuring how much coke is actually
being used. = </span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span =
lang=3DEN style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>The
researchers = first developed a method to measure how much BE was in the
surface waters of = rivers or in wastewater at sewage-treatment plants using
liquid chromatographic separation. </span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span =
lang=3DEN style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Sampling
done = at other sewage-treatment plants in various Italian cities confirmed
the results. = </span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span =
lang=3DEN style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman"'>&quot;There is = in fact no reasonable mechanism by which cocaine
excretion products could = accumulate in flowing surface waters,&quot; the
authors wrote. </span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span =
lang=3DEN style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman"'>&quot;It's a = seminal piece of research,&quot; said Christian
Daughton, chief of the = environmental chemistry branch at the Environmental
Protection Agency's Las Vegas = laboratory.
</span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span =
lang=3DEN style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Daughton,
an = expert on pharmaceutical products that find their way into rivers and
lakes, first suggested that illicit drug use could be measured this way in
2001. The technique is an anonymous, noninvasive method of measuring drug
use in a = city or community, he said. </span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span =
lang=3DEN style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Depending
on = how far up the sewage system you go, it could also be used to measure
drug use in a = prison or neighborhood, Daughton said. </span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span =
lang=3DEN style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>&quot;I
was = shocked that so few scientists showed any interest in the idea at the
time,&quot; he = said. </span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span =
lang=3DEN style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Since
nearly = all illicit drugs have unique metabolites akin to BE, all types of
drug use could be monitored, Daughton said. Measuring metabolites instead
the drug itself = also eliminates false readings from dumping large amounts
of drugs down the = drain. </span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span =
lang=3DEN style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Daughton
said = more work is needed to verify that actual drug use corresponds to
Zuccato's = estimates. </span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span =
lang=3DEN style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman"'>&quot;There's = likely more cocaine being used than Zuccato
estimates,&quot; Daughton said. = </span></font></p>

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style=3D'font-size:10.0pt'><a
href=3D"http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,68434,00.html?tw=3Dwn_to=
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style=3D'font-size:10.0pt'>&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt'>Laurie J. Tenace</span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt'>Environmental
Specialist</span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt'>Florida
Department of Environmental Protection</span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt'>2600</span></font><font
 size=3D2><span style=3D'font-size:10.0pt'> Blair Stone Road, =
MS</span></font><font size=3D2><span style=3D'font-size:10.0pt'>
4555</span></font></p>

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 size=3D2><span style=3D'font-size:10.0pt'>, Florida =
32399-2400</span></font></p>

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style=3D'font-size:10.0pt'>PH:
(850) 245-8759</span></font></p>

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(850) 245-8811</span></font></p>

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style=3D'font-size:10.0pt'><a
href=3D"mailto:Laurie.Tenace@dep.state.fl.us">Laurie.Tenace@dep.state.fl.=
us</a></span></font></p>

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style=3D'font-size:11.0pt'>&nbsp;</span></font></p>

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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 08:21:36 -0400
From: greene.cynthia@epamail.epa.gov
To: pharmwaste@lists.dep.state.fl.us
Subject: [Pharmwaste] Fw: inside epa story on pharmaceuticals in water

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Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 16:23:48 -0400
From: "Tenace, Laurie" <Laurie.Tenace@dep.state.fl.us>
To: <pharmwaste@lists.dep.state.fl.us>
Subject: [Pharmwaste] RNRF Congress on Emerging Contaminants

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All,

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Here's another upcoming conference:

http://www.rnrf.org/programs.html

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2005 RNRF CONGRESS ON EMERGING CONTAMINANTS

RNRF will convene a Congress on Assessing and Mitigating Environmental
Impacts of Emerging Contaminants, in Washington D.C., December 1-2, = 2005.
Specific issues to be examined include: 1) variety and magnitude of
challenges presented by emerging contaminants; 2) efficacy of the = existing
regulatory framework; 3) research and monitoring needs; 4) impacts on =
human and wildlife health, and impacts on ecosystems; and 5) public =
information and education needs. Contaminant types to be featured include:
pesticides = and metabolites/degradates (featuring synthetic pyrethroids), =
pharmaceuticals, nanoparticles, and industrial chemicals (featuring
brominated flame retardants).=20

Recent studies by the U.S. Geological Survey have revealed the presence = of
pesticides, pharmaceuticals and other chemicals in a significant number = of
sampled streams and rivers. These contaminants, along with other = emerging
threats, are suspected of having measurable impacts on human and = wildlife
health-in some places male fish are producing eggs, amphibians are
experiencing high levels of birth defects, and fish advisories are being
issued.=20

The conference is being sponsored by the U.S. Geological Survey. =
Additional support is being provided by the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration.

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Laurie J. Tenace

Environmental Specialist

Florida Department of Environmental Protection

2600 Blair Stone Road, MS 4555

Tallahassee, Florida 32399-2400

PH: (850) 245-8759

FAX: (850) 245-8811

Laurie.Tenace@dep.state.fl.us

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view our mercury web pages at:=20

http://www.dep.state.fl.us/waste/categories/mercury/default.htm

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another upcoming conference:</span></font></p>

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RNRF will convene a <b><span style=3D'font-weight:bold'>Congress on =
Assessing and Mitigating Environmental Impacts of Emerging
Contaminants</span></b>, in = Washington D.C., December 1&#8211;2, 2005.
Specific issues to be = examined include: 1) variety and magnitude of
challenges presented by emerging contaminants; =
2)
efficacy of the existing regulatory framework; 3) research and = monitoring
needs; 4) impacts on human and wildlife health, and impacts on = ecosystems;
and
5) public information and education needs. Contaminant types to be =
featured
include: pesticides and metabolites/degradates (featuring synthetic
pyrethroids), pharmaceuticals, nanoparticles, and industrial chemicals
(featuring brominated flame retardants). <br> <br> Recent studies by the
U.S. Geological Survey have revealed the presence = of pesticides,
pharmaceuticals and other chemicals in a significant number = of sampled
streams and rivers. These contaminants, along with other = emerging threats,
are suspected of having measurable impacts on human and = wildlife
health&#8212;in some places male fish are producing eggs, amphibians are
experiencing high levels of birth defects, and fish advisories are being
issued. <br> <br> The conference is being sponsored by the <b><span =
style=3D'font-weight:bold'>U.S.
Geological Survey</span></b>. Additional support is being provided by = the
<b><span style=3D'font-weight:bold'>U.S. Food and Drug =
Administration</span></b>.</span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt'>&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt'>&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt'>Laurie J. Tenace</span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt'>Environmental
Specialist</span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt'>Florida
Department of Environmental Protection</span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt'>2600</span></font><font
 size=3D2><span style=3D'font-size:10.0pt'> Blair Stone Road, =
MS</span></font><font size=3D2><span style=3D'font-size:10.0pt'>
4555</span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt'>Tallahassee</span></font><font
 size=3D2><span style=3D'font-size:10.0pt'>, Florida =
32399-2400</span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt'>PH:
(850) 245-8759</span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt'>FAX:
(850) 245-8811</span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt'><a
href=3D"mailto:Laurie.Tenace@dep.state.fl.us">Laurie.Tenace@dep.state.fl.=
us</a></span></font></p>

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style=3D'font-size:11.0pt'>&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt'>view our mercury web pages at: </span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt'><a
href=3D"http://www.dep.state.fl.us/waste/categories/mercury/default.htm">=
http://www.dep.state.fl.us/waste/categories/mercury/default.htm</a></span=
></font></p>

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style=3D'font-size:11.0pt'>&nbsp;</span></font></p>

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style=3D'font-size:11.0pt'>&nbsp;</span></font></p>

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