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Bruno Nunes has answered Near Certain
An expert from University of Aveiro in Toxicology
Some pharmaceutical drugs exist in the wild in levels that already surpass the amounts that are required to cause adverse effects in aquatic biota. Their amount is ever increasing, and water treatment processes are not effective to prevent their release into the aquatic ecosystem. Some of these drugs may interact with other substances, and show some potential to compromise physiological traits of many aquatic species, even in the levels in which these substances occur.
Answered about 4 years ago
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