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Network
Environment and Pharmaceuticals
European Federation for Pharmaceutical Sciences
Scope and Aim
Pharmaceuticals are indispensable for a high quality of life. Their use however also has an
environmental downside that needs to be handled. In recent years, a huge amount of data
has been collected, demonstrating the widespread of a variety of active drug ingredients in
the aquatic environment and sporadically even in drinking water. Being only insufficiently
eliminated in the conventional sewage treatment plants, there is growing evidence that the
substances and their metabolites have adverse effects on aquatic and in some cases terrestrial
organisms on both the individual and population level. How to adequately address
these issues? The Network has been initiated to address scientific achievements and discuss
various issues on exposure of pharmaceuticals to the environment, including attempts
towards global harmonisation.
Contact Point
Lennart Dencker lennart.dencker@farmbio.uu.se
Network
Food-Drug Synergies
European Federation for Pharmaceutical Sciences
Scope and aim
This Network initiative is new. The idea is to assemble the industry-academia-regulatory
triangle to work on topics which cross between food science and pharmaceutical sciences.
Topics would be, for example: Personalised nutrition and personalised medicine; special
needs (the sick, children, the elderly); sharing technology to evaluate product performance;
best practice to be communicated to public bodies; encouraging liaison across Europe to
create enterprise; and to explore new neutraceutical concepts.
Contact point
David Featherston DFE@biopeople.ku.dk
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