By Klaus Kümmerer, Maximilian Hempel
Within contemporary years prescription drugs have come into concentration as contaminants of our surroundings (see for instance Kümmerer, ok. editor: prescribed drugs within the Environment). whilst the difficulty of sustainable chemistry received momentum. Bringing either jointly might bring about sustainable pharmacy. Sustainable pharmacy is a unconditionally new factor and process. It addresses environmental, comparatively cheap and social points of pharmacy. within the current level the focal point might be on environmental matters alongside the entire lifecycle of a pharmaceutical entity. that's facing assets and effort enter but additionally with waste concerns for instance throughout the synthesis and construction of an lively pharmaceutical aspect. moreover, it can additionally glance at the compounds themselves and should target to enhance the degradability of the compounds after their use within the atmosphere to minimize the environmental possibility brought on by prescription drugs within the setting. one other factor is the folk utilizing prescription drugs equivalent to pharmacists, docs and sufferers. How can they give a contribution to extra effective use of prescribed drugs with much less environmental burden and no more possibility for consuming water. The publication "Sustainable Pharmacy" will tackle some of these matters and may be the 1st one facing this significant subject.
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A precautionary approach may be sensible, even warranted. Only one situation seems likely to result in a possible (and I emphasize the word possible) public health problem. That situation is exposure of the unborn child to toxic pharmaceuticals. This situation could arise if cytotoxic drugs, for example, were present in the drinking water drunk by a pregnant woman: her foetus/unborn baby may receive low level exposure to highly toxic drugs (drugs that are designed to kill dividing cells, for example).
It is less clear, however, whether EE2 does play a major role in this feminisation of fish, or perhaps even the major role, or alternatively whether it plays only a minor role, with natural steroids (such as estrone) playing the major role. Modelling studies suggest that EE2 plays a significant role (Sumpter et al. 2006), but this question is certainly not resolved. A large number of laboratory studies, in which various aquatic species, especially fish, have been exposed under controlled conditions to known concentrations of EE2, have shown that some aquatic organisms are exquisitely sensitive to EE2 (reviewed in Caldwell et al.
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