NEW FRAMEWORK MAY HELP PRIORITIZE EMERGING CONTAMINANT RESEARCH

Environmental consultants have developed a risk framework for determining whether pharmaceuticals and endocrine disruptors in a facility's water discharges may cause environmental harm or human health effects -- an approach that is garnering EPA attention and could be used to help prioritize research into emerging contaminants. The environmental consulting company Environ developed the framework on behalf of "an agricultural interest" to assess risks to aquatic life from pharmaceuticals and other "population-derived constituents" that are discharged into surface waters, an Environ...