“An estimated 100 million treatments are prescribed every year in Scotland.
After a pill passes through a person’s body, some of its compounds reach rivers, lochs and the sea because wastewater plants cannot filter them out.
While the project team says there is no evidence of a risk to the public, they warn of possible threats to marine wildlife.”
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