<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I've worked with MWH Laboratories (<a href="http://mwhlabs.com">mwhlabs.com</a>) measuring triclosan in wastewater, and Axys Analytical (<a href="http://axysanalytical.com">axysanalytical.com</a>) measuring triclosan in urine.<div>becky<br><div><br><div><div>On Feb 1, 2010, at 4:25 AM, Sue Dayton wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Folks:<br><br>Does anyone have the name of a lab (besides USGS) that can test for<br>triclosan?<br><br>Thanks, Sue <br><br>Sue Dayton<br>Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League<br>North Carolina Healthy Communities Program<br>PO BOX 44<br>Saxapahaw, NC 27340<br>(336) 525-2003<br><a href="mailto:sdayton@swcp.com">sdayton@swcp.com</a><br><br><br><br><br>Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.<br>- Martin Luther King Jr.<br><br><br><br><br><br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: pharmwaste-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us<br>[mailto:pharmwaste-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us] On Behalf Of Tenace,<br>Laurie<br>Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 8:03 AM<br>To: Pharmwaste@lists.dep.state.fl.us<br>Subject: [Pharmwaste] DEP Tests Show Prescription Drugs Leaching<br>FromLandfills (Maine)<br><br>DEP Tests Show Prescription Drugs Leaching From Landfills<br>http://www.mpbn.net/News/MaineNews/tabid/181/ctl/ViewItem/mid/3475/ItemId/10<br>603/Default.aspx<br><br><br>01/14/2010 05:50 PM ET Reported By: Susan Sharon<br><br>The Maine Department of Environmental Protection says it now has enough<br>evidence to prove that unwanted prescription drugs being tossed into local<br>landfills pose a threat to surface and groundwater supplies around the<br>state. New test results of leachate at three Maine landfills show high<br>concentrations of a wide range of pharmaceuticals. And the findings are<br>likely to boost support for a bill to require drug companies to collect and<br>dispose of unused medication.<br><br>"Prove it." That's what Mark Hyland of the DEP's Bureau of Remediation and<br>Waste Management says drug makers asked him to do. For a long time they had<br>argued that if unused medication shouldn't be flushed down the toilet<br>because of the risk to ground and surface water, then the best option was to<br>throw it out with the trash until someone could show them evidence that that<br>also posed a threat.<br><br>But now Hyland says he can prove that prescription drugs are showing up in<br>water that collects at three Maine landfills: in Augusta, Brunswick and<br>Bath. "And what we found was that the landfill leachate includes things like<br>antidepressants, antibiotics, steroids, hormones, heart and asthma<br>medications and a lot of pain medications, kind of the usual group of<br>pharmaceuticals that you would see anywhere," Hyland says.<br><br>Leachate, the rainwater that percolates through the landfill and collects at<br>the bottom, typically flows to a wastewater treatment plant. But unlike<br>human waste that can be treated, pharmaceuticals cannot. And this<br>contaminated water negatively affects aquatic organisms, fish and other<br>wildlife.<br><br>Hyland says the wide-ranging spectrum of medication found in the leachate<br>and some of the high concentrations were surprising. "There hasn't been a<br>lot of testing," he says. "U.S. Geological Survey has done some testing,<br>mostly in the western part of the United States, and we were surprised at<br>some of the levels we saw."<br><br>Hyland says the findings are likely to boost support for a controversial<br>bill carried over from the last legislative session. Sponsored by<br>Representative Anne Perry, the bill would require drug companies that<br>distribute medication in Maine also be responsible for collecting and<br>properly disposing of unwanted drugs in medical waste incinerators.<br><br>Not surprisingly, Perry says the drug comapnies are opposed to the idea.<br>"Essentially they don't want to do it. I mean that's really where they're<br>at."<br><br>A spokesman for the drug research and manufacturers group known as PhRMA was<br>unable to be reached for comment for this story. But in the past, Perry<br>says, PhRMA has objected to what it says would be the bill's high costs --<br>upwards of $20 million -- and intensive requirements.<br><br>Perry says she has tried to make the legislation more palatable for the<br>industry by removing some testing and study provisions. She says she's also<br>put a cap on expenses for the first three years of the program.<br><br>"I really wanted an opportunity to really work with the pharmaceutical<br>companies because my hope and intent is to get this passed, and with the<br>passage with this we've got to have something that is doable for the<br>pharmaceutical companies, and I'd really wanted to do that."<br><br>A registered nurse, Perry says her research shows that in 2008 about 2.7<br>million prescriptions were written in Maine. Some estimates suggest as many<br>as half of the medication prescribed is thrown out or sits on the shelf of a<br>medicine cabinet somewhere unused.<br><br>Mark Hyland of the DEP says this poses a threat to people as well as the<br>environment. "The main concern that there's a lot of accidental poisonings<br>that go on, people that take prescriptions that they shouldn't be taking,<br>children that take prescriptions that they shouldn't be taking and drug<br>overdoses from prescription drugs."<br><br>Maine has a higher death rate from overdoses than car accidents. Even if<br>most of the medication is consumed and expelled in human waste or flushed<br>down the toilet, Perry says the remainder, however small, is a problem that<br>ought to be addressed. A work session on her bill is scheduled for Tuesday.<br><br><br><br>Laurie Tenace<br>Environmental Specialist<br>Waste Reduction Section<br>Florida Department of Environmental Protection<br>2600 Blair Stone Rd., MS 4555<br>Tallahassee FL 32399-2400<br>P: 850.245.8759<br>F: 850.245.8811<br>Laurie.Tenace@dep.state.fl.us<br><br>Mercury: http://www.dep.state.fl.us/waste/categories/mercury/default.htm<br><br>Unwanted Medicine:<br>http://www.dep.state.fl.us/waste/categories/medications/default.htm<br><br><br><br><br><br>The Department of Environmental Protection values your feedback as a<br>customer. DEP Secretary Michael W. Sole is committed to continuously<br>assessing and improving the level and quality of services provided to you.<br>Please take a few minutes to comment on the quality of service you received.<br>Copy the url below to a web browser to complete the DEP survey:<br>http://survey.dep.state.fl.us/?refemail=Laurie.Tenace@dep.state.fl.us Thank<br>you in advance for completing the survey.<br><br>---<br>Note: As a courtesy to other listserv subscribers, please post messages to<br>the listserv in plain text format to avoid the garbling of messages received<br>by digest recipients.<br>---<br>TO SUBSCRIBE, go to:<br>http://lists.dep.state.fl.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharmwaste <br>TO UNSUBSCRIBE, DO NOT REPLY TO THE LISTSERV. 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