Is it true that Rospotrebnadzor ordered to add hormones and antibiotics to drinking water?

In social networks, alarming reports are distributed that Rospotrebnadzor has established the standards for the content of hormones and antibiotics in drinking water and now the content of these substances will increase, which will negatively affect the health of the nation. We decided to check if such information is true.

That the department will add hormones and antibiotics to the water, Report numerous Telegram channels, including such information in blog Maria Shukshina. This alarming news is reported video bloggers And sites. Commented This news is like this: “now” in the framework of harmonization of relations with WHO and Europe, Rospotrebnadzor demands to add hormones and antibiotics to drinking water. Mandatory. Any practitioner at the reception warns the patient: "Start drinking antibiotics only if the temperature is above 39. If not, it means that the body, immunity is fighting." Also, any doctor will confirm that antibiotics weaken the natural immunity of a person. What is the fright of Rospotrebnadzor (who until recently forced citizens to wear gloves as part of the fight against coronavirus) makes decisions that directly affect the health of millions of people, not giving a single justification without conducting any scientific discussions? " Users suggest, why it might be needed: “Putin's consumer supervision openly and publicly stated that he began to add drinking water and hormones and antibiotics to our drinking water. We have no doubt that other substances are added that turn people into sleeping and amorphous “vegetables”. After all, the Kremlin Kagal is the main thing that the Russian people destroyed by them were unable to resent and resist the conducted genocide. After such statements by the Zhidokmorelev fascists, we all should draw the appropriate conclusions and try to minimize the use of water from the crane for drinking and cooking. ”

User alarm arose after publication interview Heads of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova. At 16:18 she reports: “We have introduced mandatory standards for the maintenance of hormones in drinking water and an additional series of antibiotics. We have harmonized them with the European, with the puzzle volume of the standards that there are today. ”

WHO back in 2011 Issued The document “Pharmaceutical preparations in drinking water”, indicating in it all the risks that humanity encounters if too many medicines enter the water, and indicating the ways how this can be avoided. The document refers not only to antibiotics and hormones, but also about antihistamines, anti-epileptic, anti-inflammatory drugs, beta-blockers and analgesics. The authors of the document explain the ingress of pharmaceutical drugs in insufficient purification of ground and wastewater, as well as violations in the disposal of medical waste.

Each country has its own documents governing the maximum permissible concentration (MPC) of various substances in drinking water. In Russia, such a document called "Hygienic standards and requirements for ensuring safety and (or) harmlessness for a person of habitat factors." The head of Rospotrebnadzor in his interview explains that there were many scattered decisions for the regulation of the MPC, for example, “On the introduction of hygienic standards, emergency limits of exposure (APC) 1.1-dimethylhydrasin (NMG) in the air of the working area (for working in the focus of the accident),“ Estimated acceptable acceptable levels (Ode) chemicals in the water of water-drinking and cultural water use, “maximum permissible concentration (MPC) 1.1-deimethylhydrasin (heptil) in the soil” or “maximum permissible level (PDU) of melting of metal structures for the destruction of poisonous substances of the skin-bond actions ". All of them lost force with the adoption of a new, more comprehensive document.

The new document (“Hygienic standards and requirements for ensuring safety and (or) harmlessness for a person of habitat factors”) includes MPC in water for various purposes, air, soil of a whole spectrum of substances, as well as many other standards - according to furniture, printing, lighting, arrangement of metro and railway wagons, etc. Entered into force. The entire section III is dedicated to the water, including subsection "Estimated permissible levels (ode) of chemicals in the water of drinking systems."

It must be understood that the whole document regulates how many antibiotics, hormones and other substances should be in water, but at what threshold value water is considered more unsuitable for drinking and must be subjected to additional cleaning. The fact that MPCs were absent in hormones and antibiotics did not mean that there were no these substances in water at all, but that the department did not assess their presence and quantity. It was this meaning of Anna Popova that he invested in the phrase "we harmonized [Russian standards] with European, with the puzzle volume of standards." Moreover, in the same interview she reportedthat "in these regulatory acts all the requirements that protect our health are preserved." The department also Explainedthat "after the appearance of strict requirements for the content of antibiotics or hormones, the supervisory authorities have an instrument of control - if there is excess of substances on a certain list of substances, those who give people water will be punished." From this we can conclude that the water will not become “dirtier” on the initiative of the regulatory body, but there will be more criteria for assessing the suitability of water, therefore, more contaminated water will not get to the consumer.

Thus, users of social networks pulled out the phrase of Anna Popova from context and turned her meaning in a frightening way. However, the initiative of Rospotrebnadzor is not at all aimed at a deterioration in the quality of water, but, on the contrary, will protect the consumer from drinking water of inadequate quality.

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