Waste prescription drugs – still blaming patients?
Patients have been asked to help cut medicines waste, which costs Bristol £3.5 million a year. Patients and healthcare professionals in Bristol are being asked to help stop medicines going […]
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Drug pollution risk ‘a global responsibility’
Rich countries should help poorer countries deal with the risk posed by pharmaceutical contamination of the environment, says an Australian expert. Dr Rai Kookana, an environmental chemist with the CSIRO, […]
Call for European harmonisation of waste pharmaceuticals
EU rules for waste medicines should be harmonised and strengthened, Health Care Without Harm (HCWH) has claimed, after a survey of six member states revealed a wide discrepancy in collection […]
Is that an elephant in the room?
Revision to legislation in the US State of New Jersey will prohibit health care institutions from discharging prescription medications into sewer or septic systems. How that will happen is pretty straightforward […]
Pharmaceutical discharges from ATT treatment wastewaters
The possibility of unacceptable pharmaceutical discharges from ATT treatment wastewaters has repeatedly been used as an unacceptable ‘tool’ by EA to maniplulate their regulatory position. Last updated: Tuesday, June 3, 2014