US EditionEPA moves to designate microplastics and pharmaceuticals as contaminants in drinking water
The draft list opens a 60-day comment period and could lead to monitoring and future limits for public water systems.
- On Thursday, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. launched the $144 million Systematic Targeting of Microplastics program to measure, understand, and remove microplastics from the human body.
- Pushing the "Make America Healthy Again" initiative, Kennedy characterized the prevalence of plastic fragments in Americans as a "generational health crisis," linking pollutants to rising chronic disease and cognitive decline rates.
- EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin joined the announcement, confirming his agency will collaborate on detecting microplastics in water and designating both microplastics and pharmaceuticals as priority contaminant groups for the first time.
- The HHS will build tools to detect microplastics while mapping how they cross biological barriers like the gut and blood-brain barrier, then develop clinically safe trials to remove these particles.
- Zeldin noted this strategy responds to concerns from millions of Americans regarding daily water consumption, addressing long-standing questions about persistent contaminants in the human body.
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MAHA: Microplastics, Pharmaceuticals Listed as Contaminants in Water Supply for First Time
from The National Pulse: WHAT HAPPENED: The Trump administration has added microplastics and pharmaceuticals to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) draft list of contaminants for the first time. 👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, public health officials, and government regulators. 📍WHEN & […]
EPA to list microplastics, pharmaceuticals as contaminants in drinking water for first time
For the first time, the U.S. government has taken steps toward potentially regulating the levels of microplastics and pharmaceuticals found in drinking water, The Associated Press reported. The Environmental Protection Agency proposed adding the substances to a list of possible drinking-water contaminants. If the proposal succeeds, it could pave the way for the government to place legal limits on the amount of microplastics and pharmaceuticals …
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The Environmental Protection Agency proposed Thursday to include microplastics and pharmaceuticals on a list of contaminants in drinking water for the first time, a step that could lead to new limits on those substances for water utilities. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said they are responding to Americans who have worried about plastics and pharmaceuticals in their drinking water. The gesture also aims to hand a win to Health Secretary Robert F…
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ecotopical.comEPA Flags Microplastics as ‘Priority’ Water Contaminants, but the Move Doesn’t Guarantee Regulation
Inclusion on the agency’s draft Contaminant Candidate List doesn’t require the EPA to monitor or set limits on microplastics in drinking water.By Anika Jane BeamerCiting the Trump administration’s promise to “Make America Healthy Again,” the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency placed microplastics and pharmaceuticals on a draft list of contaminants maintained by the agency.
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