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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:navy'>Good start, Sue. Every bit of a pollutant kept out of the
waters is that much less that can have unintended consequences and has to be
removed later. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:navy'>I found that it took very little effort to get the landlords for our
central office and the 7 regional offices of the state environmental agency to
stop providing us with triclosan-containing soaps in all of the restrooms. The
information I provided to staff on triclosan was shared and disseminated to their
families and other businesses, so those consumers began to make more
environmentally friendly decisions. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:navy'>At least one of the EPA regions is working on becoming
triclosan-free at the office, too. Public education goes a long way in
fighting these battles.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p><font size=2 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
color:navy'>Deborah L. DeBiasi</span></font><font color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial;color:navy'><br>
</span></font><b><font size=2 color=navy><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
color:navy;font-weight:bold'>Email:
Deborah.DeBiasi@deq.virginia.gov</span></font><i><font color=navy><span
style='color:navy;font-style:italic'> </span></font></i></b><b><i><font size=2
color=red><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:red;font-weight:bold;font-style:
italic'>(NEW!)<br>
</span></font></i></b><font size=2 color=navy><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
color:navy'>PH: 804-698-4028</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='punctuation-wrap:hanging;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric ideograph-other'><b><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:
bold'>From:</span></font></b><font face=Tahoma><span style='font-family:Tahoma'>
pharmwaste-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us
[mailto:pharmwaste-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Sue Dayton<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, January 13, 2010
3:07 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> 'Al White'; 'Massoomi, Fred';
'Hyun, Karen'; 'Mannina, George J.'; pharmwaste@lists.dep.state.fl.us<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: [Pharmwaste] A
"minute" move in the right direction to keep RXoutof the H2O</span></font><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;color:navy'>This is what I do. See attached. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;color:navy'>Sue Dayton<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;color:navy'>Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:navy'>North
Carolina</span></font></st1:place></st1:State><font color=navy><span
style='color:navy'> Healthy Communities Program<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><st1:place w:st="on"><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:navy'>PO</span></font></st1:place><font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'> <st1:address w:st="on"><st1:Street w:st="on">BOX</st1:Street>
44</st1:address><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:navy'>Saxapahaw</span></font></st1:City><font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'>, <st1:State w:st="on">NC</st1:State> <st1:PostalCode
w:st="on">27340</st1:PostalCode></span></font></st1:place><font color=navy><span
style='color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;color:navy'>(336) 525-2003<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;color:navy'><a href="mailto:sdayton@swcp.com">sdayton@swcp.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;color:navy'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;color:navy'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;color:navy'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><em><i><font
size=2 color=navy face="Palatino Linotype"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Palatino Linotype";color:navy'>Our lives begin to end the day we become
silent about things that matter. - Martin Luther King Jr.</span></font></i></em><em><i><font
face="Palatino Linotype"><span style='font-family:"Palatino Linotype"'><o:p></o:p></span></font></i></em></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;color:navy'> </span></font><font size=3 color=navy
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;color:navy'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='punctuation-wrap:hanging;text-autospace:ideograph-other'><b><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:
bold'>From:</span></font></b><font face=Tahoma><span style='font-family:Tahoma'>
pharmwaste-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us
[mailto:pharmwaste-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Al White<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, January 13, 2010
2:44 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> 'Massoomi, Fred'; 'Hyun,
Karen'; 'Mannina, George J.'; pharmwaste@lists.dep.state.fl.us<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Pharmwaste] A
"minute" move in the right direction to keep RX outof the H2O</span></font><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'>But what are we
going to do about the even bigger danger of flushing/ draining the urine, feces
and millions of cleaning and personal care products??<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'>The unused
“Meds” are barely the tip of the iceberg.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'>Al White<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='punctuation-wrap:hanging;text-autospace:ideograph-other'><b><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:
bold'>From:</span></font></b><font face=Tahoma><span style='font-family:Tahoma'>
pharmwaste-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us
[mailto:pharmwaste-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Massoomi, Fred<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, January 13, 2010
2:18 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Hyun, Karen; Mannina, George
J.; pharmwaste@lists.dep.state.fl.us<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Pharmwaste] A move in
the right direction to keep RX out of the H2O<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:7.5pt;
punctuation-wrap:hanging;text-autospace:ideograph-other'><b><font size=4
color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:black;font-weight:bold'>Health facilities, NY settle over drug-flushing<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='punctuation-wrap:hanging;text-autospace:ideograph-other'><i><font
size=1 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:black;font-style:italic'>Posted: Jan 12, 2010 12:11 PM CST Tuesday,
January 12, 2010 1:11 PM ESTUpdated: Jan 13, 2010 4:37 AM CST Wednesday,
January 13, 2010 5:37 AM EST</span></font></i><font size=1 color=black
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='punctuation-wrap:hanging;text-autospace:ideograph-other'><font
size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:black'>By MARCUS FRANKLIN<br>
Associated Press Writer <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:9.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
9.0pt;margin-left:0in;punctuation-wrap:hanging;text-autospace:ideograph-other'><font
size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:black'>NEW YORK (AP) - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced a
settlement Tuesday with five health care facilities that flushed pharmaceutical
waste into the New York City watersheds.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:9.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
9.0pt;margin-left:0in;punctuation-wrap:hanging;text-autospace:ideograph-other'><font
size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:black'>Cuomo reached agreements with the two hospitals and three nursing
homes that disposed of painkillers, antibiotics, antidepressants, hormones and
other pharmaceuticals through toilets and sinks and into the watersheds, his
office said. The flushes potentially put about 9 million people's drinking
water at risk, Cuomo said.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:9.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
9.0pt;margin-left:0in;punctuation-wrap:hanging;text-autospace:ideograph-other'><font
size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:black'>The three watersheds - the Croton, Catskill and Delaware - cover
nearly 2000 square miles and drain into reservoirs and lakes providing drinking
water to New York City's roughly 8 million residents and another 1 million in
several northern counties - nearly half the state's 19.4 million residents.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:9.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
9.0pt;margin-left:0in;punctuation-wrap:hanging;text-autospace:ideograph-other'><font
size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:black'>The hospitals and nursing homes are located within the watershed
in Putnam and <st1:State w:st="on">Delaware</st1:State> counties north of <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York City</st1:place></st1:City>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:9.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
9.0pt;margin-left:0in;punctuation-wrap:hanging;text-autospace:ideograph-other'><font
size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:black'>Although such facilities are allowed to flush many - but not all -
drugs through toilets and sinks, the nursing homes and hospitals nonetheless agreed
to stop disposing of all drugs in that manner to protect the watersheds, Cuomo
said.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:9.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
9.0pt;margin-left:0in;punctuation-wrap:hanging;text-autospace:ideograph-other'><font
size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:black'>Instead, the facilities will give the drugs to waste management
facilities, he said.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:9.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
9.0pt;margin-left:0in;punctuation-wrap:hanging;text-autospace:ideograph-other'><font
size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:black'>The attorney general's investigation of the facilities on the
watersheds was prompted in part by a series of stories by The Associated Press
in 2008 that revealed the drinking water of at least 51 million Americans
contains minute concentrations of a multitude of drugs, said Katherine Kennedy,
Cuomo's special deputy attorney general for environmental protection.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:9.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
9.0pt;margin-left:0in;punctuation-wrap:hanging;text-autospace:ideograph-other'><font
size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:black'>Water utilities, replying to an AP questionnaire, acknowledged the
presence of dozens of drugs in their supplies. State tests of <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">New York</st1:place></st1:State>'s watersheds in 2008 that also
found trace amounts of drugs also led to Cuomo's investigation, Kennedy said.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:9.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
9.0pt;margin-left:0in;punctuation-wrap:hanging;text-autospace:ideograph-other'><font
size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:black'>Cuomo called the practice "an emerging threat" to <st1:State
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York</st1:place></st1:State>'s drinking
water supply and said the federal Environmental Protection Agency has
identified pharmaceuticals as "contaminants of emerging concern."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:9.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
9.0pt;margin-left:0in;punctuation-wrap:hanging;text-autospace:ideograph-other'><font
size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:black'>The attorney general said waste pharmaceuticals flushed down
toilets or sinks end up at sewage treatment plants or septic systems that
aren't designed to treat such wastes and don't remove some pharmaceuticals.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:9.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
9.0pt;margin-left:0in;punctuation-wrap:hanging;text-autospace:ideograph-other'><font
size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:black'>Also, Cuomo said, drinking water treatment plants, including those
that chlorinate drinking water, don't consistently remove pharmaceuticals.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:9.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
9.0pt;margin-left:0in;punctuation-wrap:hanging;text-autospace:ideograph-other'><font
size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:black'>"The nine million people who get their water from the <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York City</st1:place></st1:City> watershed
enjoy some of the cleanest, safest and best water in the world," said
Cuomo. "We need to make sure it stays that way. These...settlements
provide a new model to implement immediate and sensible precautions to keep
waste drugs out of the drinking water supply."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:9.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
9.0pt;margin-left:0in;punctuation-wrap:hanging;text-autospace:ideograph-other'><font
size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:black'>Parties to the settlement were: Putnam Nursing and <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Rehabilitation</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Center</st1:PlaceType>
in Holmes in <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Putnam</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">County</st1:PlaceType>; O'Connor Hospital and <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Countryside</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Care</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Center</st1:PlaceType>,
both in <st1:City w:st="on">Delhi</st1:City> in <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Delaware</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">County</st1:PlaceType>; and <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Margaretville</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Memorial</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Hospital</st1:PlaceType>
and <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Mountainside</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Residential</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Care</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Center</st1:PlaceType>
in Margaretville, also in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Delaware</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">County</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:9.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
9.0pt;margin-left:0in;punctuation-wrap:hanging;text-autospace:ideograph-other'><font
size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:black'>Telephone messages seeking comment from the five facilities
weren't immediately returned Tuesday.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:9.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
9.0pt;margin-left:0in;punctuation-wrap:hanging;text-autospace:ideograph-other'><font
size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:black'>Cuomo's investigation initially found a range of state and federal
violations at the health care facilities, including failure to properly label,
store, track and dispose of pharmaceuticals, Cuomo's office said.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:9.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
9.0pt;margin-left:0in;punctuation-wrap:hanging;text-autospace:ideograph-other'><font
size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:black'>Each facility was fined between $3,500 and $12,000 for various
violations, including flushing drugs, said Richard Bamberger, a spokesman for
Cuomo.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:9.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
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size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:black'>Cuomo's office also is investigating 10 other health care
facilities on the watershed, officials said.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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