Pharmaceuticals and personal care products in the environment | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 15/06/2019

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_pharmaceuticals_and_personal_care_products


00:01:16 1 Overview
00:04:38 1.1 Safe disposal
00:07:25 2 Types
00:08:42 3 Routes into the environment
00:12:57 4 Presence in the environment
00:16:22 5 Effects
00:16:31 5.1 Human
00:26:02 5.2 Recommendations
00:29:52 5.3 Environmental
00:34:00 6 Current research
00:36:34 6.1 Pharmacoenvironmentology
00:37:43 6.2 Ecopharmacovigilance
00:39:42 6.3 Ecopharmacology
00:41:19 6.4 Fate of pharmaceuticals in sewage treatment plants
00:46:25 6.5 Regulation
00:48:37 7 Examples
00:48:46 7.1 Blister packs
00:52:45 7.2 Nail polish remover
00:56:28 8 Pending questions
00:57:59 9 See also



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The environmental effect of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) is currently being widely investigated. PPCPs include substances used by individuals for personal health or cosmetic reasons and the products used by agribusiness to boost growth or health of livestock. More than twenty million tons of PPCPs are produced every year. PPCPs have been detected in water bodies throughout the world. The effects of these chemicals on humans and the environment are not yet known, but to date there is no scientific evidence that they affect human health.[2]
Further research is needed to evaluate the risks of toxicity, persistence, and bioaccumulation. PPCPs encompass environmental persistent pharmaceutical pollutants (EPPPs) and are one type of persistent organic pollutants. They are not removed from wastewater by conventional methods. The European Union has declared pharmaceutical residues with the potential of contamination of water and soil to be "priority substances".[3]