Pharmaceutical Sustainability Flashcards
1
Q
Environment impact on blister packs
A
Difficult to recycle
2
Q
What can manufacturers do
A
Adjust to smaller package sizes
3
Q
effects of climate change on medicinal plants
A
threatened by changing temperature and precipitation regimes
increase in pests and pathogens
changes in chemical content
4
Q
causes of medicines wastage
A
patient recovering before course of treatment is over
stop/change therapies
patient death
progressive conditions so new theRAPY REQUIRED
5
Q
risks of api in water bodies
A
affect wildlife
impair ecosystem health
antibiotic resistance in humans and animals
6
Q
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