Medicinal product and environment

Abstract

Medicinal products may have influences on the environment throughout the whole product life cycle. Products may persist in any environment and recontaminate humans. The main target is to identify sensible product groups and elaborate awareness and countermeasures.

Objective

The students should understand ecological cycles, for example Pharmaceutical - Water, air animal human interconnections. The most well known potential hazards/Pharmaceutical groups will be taught in order to apply pharmaceutical expertise in the consultation of patients, workers and companies of the health industry. The students will be able apply this knowledge to the use of special Pharmaceutical Groups (antibiotics, cytostatics, hormones, disinfectants etc.) in medicinal preparations, their manufacture and safe disposal.

Content

Pharmaceutical waste products are produced as a result of the Development Manufacturing and through the use of Pharmaceutical Drugs. These waste products and can cause many undesired damaging effects on the environment. Specific Pharmaceutical groups such as cytostatics and antibiotics can, after the metabolism in humans via the gastro intestinal pathway, result in long term effects on the environment. The most important questions to be explored are: How can man, animal and the natural environment be protected from these damaging effects? Strategies for the reduction of and proper disposal will be presented. Working groups will be formed and the main topics such as the proper handling of antibiotics, cytostatics, hormones etc. will be discussed. Waste destruction facilities may be discussed or the handling of cytostatics in Hospital Pharmacies taken into account. (If requested by students; outside normal lecture times.)

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