Daily necessities threaten city water

Daily life, people have to brush their teeth, face, makeup, when sick to take a variety of drugs, but very few people realize that a variety of personal care products and drugs are seriously polluting the city water, threatening people's health. At the "Ecology and Health" forum held yesterday, Yin Daqiang, a professor at the School of Environmental Science and engineering at Tongji University, called on Shanghai, like many cities at home and abroad, to receive medicines and personal care products (pharma-ceuticalandpersonalcareprod-ucts,　　Abbreviation for PPCPS) The threat of pollution. "Although the effects of PPCPS on human health and ecosystems have not been quantified, studies have shown that certain PPCPs can have an impact on biological communities and even threaten human health." "Yin Daqiang said that in addition to studying the PPCPS removal technology in water, the development of safe and effective, environmentally friendly drugs and personal products, but also the establishment of PPCPS-oriented environmental risk assessment methods, PPCPS into the water quality control standards. He also recommends the setting up of expired drug recycling stores to provide a proper way out for expired drugs, as well as the classification, treatment and safe disposal of recovered drugs.