Antibacterial agent used in common soaps found in increasing amounts in freshwater lakes

[OKIsItJustMe]

http://www1.umn.edu/news/news-releases/2013/UR_CONTENT_428124.html

[font face=Serif][font size=5]Antibacterial agent used in common soaps found in increasing amounts in freshwater lakes[/font]

[font size=4]University of Minnesota study raises new questions about use of triclosan[/font]

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[font size=3]MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (01/22/2013) —When people wash their hands with antibacterial soap, most don’t think about where the chemicals contained in that soap end up. University of Minnesota engineering researchers do.

A new University of Minnesota study determined that the common antibacterial agent, called triclosan, used in soaps and many other products is found in increasing amounts in several Minnesota freshwater lakes. The findings are directly linked to increased triclosan use over the past few decades.

In addition, the researchers found an increasing amount of other chemical compounds, called chlorinated triclosan derivatives, that form when triclosan is exposed to chlorine during the wastewater disinfection process. When exposed to sunlight, triclosan and its chlorinated derivatives form dioxins that have potential toxic effects in the environment. These dioxins were also found in the lakes.

The study was just accepted by the journal Environmental Science and Technology and is published online.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/es3045289

[Agschmid]

1. What we do to the environment even when were being "good"...

is so beyond bad.

[dballance]

2. Somehow I Managed to Make to Almost 50 Without Purell and Sanitary Wipes Everywhere

I can't see how this is a surprise. Of course it's not otherwise the scientists wouldn't be testing for it.

Somehow I managed to make it to 49 without the aid of Purell and sanitary wipes everywhere for me to use to keep those awful germs away. Not to mention we never got annual flu vaccinations. Yet I survived the harsh, brutal conditions of this evil bacteria and virus infected world of doom.

Of all the scrapes and cuts I got as a kid I don't remember one of them becoming infected. We just cleaned them and put a little iodine on them and all was good.

We've grown into a crazy society where everything has to be "sanitary" before we touch it. We've created a psycho society of obsessive compulsives.

Yes, there are basic sanitary measures we should all take. But we've gone off into the sky with them now.

All to the profit of those companies making sanitary hand wipes and sanitary lotions.

[lunasun]

4. +1

I think it has a place but overuse by paranoids created by the producers and their ads

You can get wipes without triclosan that are alcohol based

[CreekDog]

5. the alcohol based ones, however, like the Purell, aren't what's being talked about here

[lunasun]

3. check out what is does to the body some day FYI-also it is many toothpastes like Total