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OTTAWA, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- At least 10 toxins have been found in the Ottawa River that supplies the Canadian capital with its drinking water, city officials said.
City councilors were sent a memo by the infrastructure services department that said "extremely low concentrations" of such drugs as acetaminophen and chemicals such as bisphenol A were found in tests conducted earlier this year, the Ottawa Sun reported.
Earlier this month, Canada declared bisphenol A, or BPA, a hazardous chemical. It is used widely in plastic drinking bottles and liners for canned products, and mimics estrogen in the human body.
Among the other chemicals found was lasaloid A, which is used as an antibiotic for livestock, the Sun said.
The findings come 10 days after the city was fined $562,500 under the provincial Ontario Water Resources Act for failing to report two spills of millions of gallons of untreated sewage into the river in 2006, the Ottawa Citizen reported.
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