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"Pharmaceuticals have become emerging micropollutants and are a growing global concern as their presence has been reported in freshwater ecosystems, rivers, and oceans worldwide,"TAMU-CC biologist Anya Ocampos and colleagues have since run tissue samples from 89 dolphins through a mass spectrometer to see how widespread this contamination was.
"Dolphins are often used as bioindicators of ecosystem health in contaminant research due to their lipid-rich blubber that can store contaminants and be sampled relatively minimally invasively in live animals,"in US history in the adjacent county. And the Mississippi dolphins comprised 40 percent of our total pharmaceutical detections, which leads us to believe this is a long-standing issue in the marine environment.
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