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... several major reports have come out in recent years about the dangers of pharmaceutical drug residues being found in the nation's water supplies ... but a new study has shown that major american food crops like soybeans are also absorbing these chemicals, and others, from the treated wastewater that farmers are applying to them ... it is common practice for large-scale farm operations to dump billions of gallons of treated sewage and other recycled water on crops to help fertilize them ... a research team from the university of toledo in ohio decided to test whether or not major u ... food crops were capable of absorbing these chemicals in real-life agricultural conditions, so they performed an experiment on soybeans, the second most-widely grown crop in the u ... "according to chenxi wu, the study lead, these chemicals could "accumulate through the food chain, and eventually end up in human consumers
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