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Janet Baraclough wrote:
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I wonder how much medication passes through the body to come out in
the urine, Then to be taken up by the plants?

Best start worrying about your own drinking water then; if it's from a
river it contains peed and poohed medication. Plus all those
hormones and fertilisers, seeds and fish eggs. You can probably get
pregnant from drinking that water or bathing in it,
and give birth to a tomato plant.

One of the things this country lacks is a local version of the National
Enquirer, to present all of the facts that are too shocking for the
newspapers to print :-) A court case where someone sues a water
authority on such grounds would expose facts that few people realise
exist.

Synthetic oestrogens are interesting, because they were originally
derived from a plant hormone. It is JUST possible, even in more
conventional science, that they have some slight effect on plants.
Aspirin does, slightly. But, generally, I doubt that plants will
absorb enough of such things to show interesting effects.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.