[Pharmwaste] Re: UK - Cancer drugs found in tap water (BROMLY Melissa)

[JuMullot at aol.com]

Dear Readers,
 
About the "new" that bleomycin was found in tap water, I just would like to  
add some details (I read the DWI report that you can find on the Web). If I  
correctly read it :
 
- The report, compiled by Watts and Crane, make the citation of a  scientific 
paper revealing that bleomycin was found in tap water,
- but the publication date of this paper is 1990 ! and the samples (without  
extensive details about location, water pretreatment ....) were taken in 1989  
!
- analysis was performed with a radioimmunoassay test previously developed  
for bleomycin in plasma and authors indicate that because of possible  
cross-reactivity in water, it was not excluded that immunoreactivity could have  been 
caused by something else that bleomycin ...
 
Lesson 1 : always consult the original source of an information
Lesson 2 : favorite new for newspaper is not always the same that for  
scientists
 
Best regards,
 
Jean Ulrich Mullot





   
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