According to purewaterfreedom.com, the President's Cancer Panel (PCP) recently released its yearly report outlining the status of cancer in America. This report focuses primarily on environmental factors that contribute to cancer risk. According to the report, pharmaceutical drugs are a serious environmental pollutant, particularly in the way they continue to contaminate waterways across the country (and the whole world).
Many reports have recently appeared about pharmaceutical contamination of water supplies, rivers, lakes and other waterways, but spokespersons from the drug and chemical industries have denied that this pollution poses any risk whatsoever to the environment. But this report, issued directly from PCP, provides a stunning indictment of the dangers associated with pharmaceutical pollution.Sewage treatment plants are not currently designed to remove pharmaceuticals from water.
Does anyone have a summarized study indicating recent trends in pharmaceutical contaminants treatment?
Thanks in advance....
In EU countries, pharmacies offer free dropping of medications and bottles and they manage the waste as a hazardous waste. In the US, most of the pharmacy chains and big retailers do the same.
Education of the customers is happening via brochures, online, and printed paper. The most important influencers (TV, radio) and schools have not covered the topic yet.
In my recent review paper published in Water Research, I offered a brief critical analysis on regulations for pharmaceuticals. You can find it here.
Article Chiral pharmaceuticals: A review on their environmental occu...
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