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Summary: Did you know that the medicine we take can end up in the soil? People use antibiotics all over the world, but these drugs often leak into the environment. Scientists wanted to see how two common antibiotics, ampicillin and ciprofloxacin, change the plants we eat. They tested lettuce to see if the drugs changed its healthy vitamins, its ability to fight stress, or the minerals inside it. This helps us learn how medicine pollution affects our food!