The River Almond has been named in a report detailing medicinal drugs polluting Scotland’s waterways – breaching the pollution safety level of one drug by over 50,000 times.

The pollution safety levels have been breached across the country 2300 times over the last seven years according to data released by the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA).

The measures record contamination from 26 drugs – including ibuprofen, oestrogen, antibiotics, painkillers, antidepressants, anaesthetics, and caffeine.

Recorded levels of caffeine, used as a stimulant in some medicines like paracetamol, were more than 50,000 times the PNEC in the River Almond.

Samples were taken from around 30 sewage plants and other sites between 2013 and 2019.

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