Environmental Persistent Pharmaceutical Pollutants

Basics

• A class of Contaminants of emerging concern
• Abbreviated as EPPP(s)
• Essentially Pharmaceutical Precursors, Pharmaceuticals, and Pharmaceutical Metabolites / Waste
• Can come from a Point Source such as a factory, but the main context is in Black Water by people utilizing Pharmaceuticals
  • Various methods of Wastewater Treatment may concentrate these as well
• The Direct Impact is of concern, but synergistic effects are of special interest

Internal Links

• Persistent Organic Pollutants

External Links

• The Wikipedia Page on Environmental Persistent Pharmaceutical Pollutants
  • The Wikipedia Page on Environmental impact of pharmaceuticals and personal care products
  • The Wikipedia Page on Drug Pollution
  • Some of these could perhaps be merged, should discuss that on the Wikipedia side of things)
• The UNEP Page on EPPPs