ArticleThe Pan African medical journal2017
Why regulatory indifference towards pharmaceutical pollution of the environment could be a missed opportunity in public health protection. a holistic view.
Article in The Pan African medical journal, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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- Guidance provided by pharmacists to customers regarding to destination of unused household medications: disposal of household medications.BMC health services research · 2023Article
- Disposal Practices of Unused and Leftover Medicines in the Households of Dhaka Metropolis.Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Assessing the bioremediation potential of indigenously isolated Klebsiella sp. WAH1 for diclofenac sodium: optimization, toxicity and metabolic pathway studies.World journal of microbiology & biotechnology · 2021Article
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Abstract
The last generation has witnessed bludgeoning of the world's population, a spike in disease burden, and unprecedented levels of pharmaceutical consumption and production. Unfortunately, pharmaceuticals have left their industrial and household confines and leaked into the environment. Pharmaceuticals are now major environmental pollutants, and are ubiquitous in waters and soils. Unlike other environmental contaminants, pharmaceutical pollutants are not yet regulated globally, simply because acute risk assessments show insignificant human health hazard. But the pitfalls of pharmaceutical pollutants extend beyond acute effects to delayed effects from bioaccumulation, amplified effects from drug-drug interactions, exacerbation of drug resistance, and reduction in aquatic and terrestrial food production. Therefore, ignoring pharmaceutical pollutants deprives society of holistic public health protection.
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