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August 11, 2009 Springfield, Ill. – Health care facilities in Illinois will longer be allowed to flush unused pharmaceuticals down toilets or drains under the provisions of a new law that co-sponsor State Sen. Dan Cronin (R-Elmhurst) says seeks to reduce the negative impact that unused medicine can have on water quality and the surrounding environment. “There’s been a lot of concern that flushing medicines into the public water supply has a negative impact on the environment, the aquatic organisms and fish living in those waters, and that long-term exposure to these pharmaceuticals will ultimately harm the people who are consuming it,” Cronin explained. Cronin said that the measure applies to hospitals, nursing homes, residential health care facilities, home health care agencies, hospice programs, and mental and developmentally disabled health care facilities. Employees at these facilities will be prohibited from disposing of unused medicine into a public wastewater or septic system. |
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