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<DIV>Dear Readers,</DIV>
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<DIV>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 :</DIV>
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<DIV>- The report, compiled by Watts and Crane, make the citation of a
scientific paper revealing that bleomycin was found in tap water,</DIV>
<DIV>- but the publication date of this paper is 1990 ! and the samples (without
extensive details about location, water pretreatment ....) were taken in 1989
!</DIV>
<DIV>- 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 ...</DIV>
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<DIV>Lesson 1 : always consult the original source of an information</DIV>
<DIV>Lesson 2 : favorite new for newspaper is not always the same that for
scientists</DIV>
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<DIV>Best regards,</DIV>
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<DIV>Jean Ulrich Mullot</DIV></DIV></DIV></FONT> </BODY></HTML>