Open AccessEvaluation of the potential environmental risk from the destination of medicines: an epidemiological and toxicological study
Author(s) -
Mariana Alves Resende Salgado,
Mariana R. Salvador,
André de Oliveira Baldoni,
Ralph Gruppi Thomé,
Hélio Batista dos Santos
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
daru
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.645
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 2008-2231
pISSN - 1560-8115
DOI - 10.1007/s40199-020-00383-4
Subject(s) - epidemiology , environmental health , medicine , pathology
The high consumption of medicines by the population and their storage at home might cause an increase in the number of pharmaceutical substances that may be inappropriately discarded in the sanitary sewage, reaching an environmental aquatic. Thus, the effects of these emerging contaminants need more studies.