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Posted Tue Feb 4 2014: from Environmental Health News:
Canada river 'sweetened' by contaminants http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1391479756
Three artificial sweeteners have been found in a Great Lakes river at the highest concentrations found in surface waters worldwide, according to a new study. The study is one of the first to measure them in a river used for drinking water, and it adds to growing evidence that such compounds are making it past wastewater treatment.
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