Description: Das Projekt "Intelligent Assessment of Pharmaceuticals in the Environment (iPiE)" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Bayer Pharma AG durchgeführt. Minute amounts of the active ingredients in medicines get into the environment in a variety of ways. However, we still know little about what happens to medicines after release into the environment and what effect they have on wildlife. Although measures are in place to limit the environmental impact of new medicines, more research is needed in this important area. The iPiE projects goal is to develop a framework that will provide methodologies to prioritise new and existing medicinal compounds for a comprehensive environmental risk assessment. As such it will support and inform regulatory activities designed to assess and reduce the environmental impact of medicines. The active ingredients in medicines (known as the active pharmaceutical ingredient, or API) can be released into the environment in a variety of ways. The most common route is via the sewage system, when patients excrete them. APIs can also escape into the environment when people dispose of medicines incorrectly, and during the manufacturing process. APIs are, by definition, biologically active, and although their concentration in the environment is generally extremely low, there are concerns about the effect of these chemicals on wildlife and ecosystems in general. Since 2006, new medicines have had to undergo an environmental risk assessment before they are approved for use. However, current testing strategies need to be optimised to accurately predict harmful impacts on wildlife. Furthermore, there are over 3 000 APIs that were already in use before the new rules came into force, and just a small number of these have been subjected to environmental impact testing. As testing all of these will be a mammoth task, guidance is needed to help identify which of these legacy APIs are most likely to pose a risk to the environment and so should be prioritised for testing. (abridged text)
Types:
SupportProgram
Origin: /Bund/UBA/UFORDAT
Tags: Arzneimittel ? Biologische Wirkung ? Schadstoffwirkung ? Umweltauswirkung ? Honigbiene ? Persistenter Stoff ? Kanalisationswasser ? Arzneistoff ? Schadstoffpfad ? Abwasser ? Bewertung ? Chemikalien ? Prüfverfahren ? Wirkstoff ? Ökosystemforschung ? Umweltrisikobewertung ? Effektkonzentration ? Wildlebende Tiere und Pflanzen ? Ausbreitungsvorgang ? Biosphäre ? Datenerhebung ? Forschung ? Informationsgewinnung ? Ökosystem ? Risiko ? Schadstoffverhalten ?
Region: Berlin
Bounding box: 10.44987° .. 10.44987° x 54.03573° .. 54.03573°
License: cc-by-nc-nd/4.0
Language: Deutsch
Time ranges: 2015-01-01 - 2018-12-31
Webseite zum Förderprojekt
http://i-pie.org/ (Webseite)Webseite zum Förderprojekt
https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/publikationen/the-database-pharmaceuticals-in-the-environment (Webseite)Accessed 1 times.