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A Global Impact Of Pharmaceutical Pollution
Abstract
Pharmaceutical products play an important role in our daily life in which consumption medicine is essential in need of curing the disease. As the requirement of the pharmaceuticals is more important in human life the production of medicine is in more demanded in global level in our day-to-day life. The most important aspects are the other side in which the pollution of the pharmaceuticals is caused due to the manufacturing, emission, disposal and consumption of the drug materials. This pharmac
eutical pollution creates a global impact which is a huge threat to the environment and the human life. Due to the drug pollution in the water environment many rivers around the world in many countries have been polluted in which the effluent, residue, disposed and undisposed drugs from the pharmaceutical industries, hospital wastes, medicine consumed have routed by the water to various rivers, lakes etc. The medicinal products also effect the drinking water and causes more adverse effects. The survey was taken from different articles in which the causes and prevention has briefly detailed and some treatment methods have mentioned in order reduce the pollution form pharmaceuticals.
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