85 organizations call on WHO to revise drinking water nitrate standards in place since 1958
Greenpeace, WONCA and the European Environmental Bureau sent an open letter to the WHO demanding that nitrates be included in the upcoming revision of the drinking-water quality guidelines. The current limit of 50 mg/l was set in 1958 to prevent blue baby syndrome, but, according to the signatories, it does not take into account new evidence linking nitrates to bowel cancer and preterm birth.
Aziz Karimov