Год выпуска: 2012 Автор: Gurpreet Kaur Randhawa Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 72 ISBN: 9783848496501
Описание
Ecopharmacology is a science dealing with effects of active pharmaceutical compounds and their metabolites on ecosystem in negative way. Pharmaceuticals find their way into environment either through excretion after human use, agriculture and veterinary use, through disposal of expired medicine and as manufacturing waste. Some pharmaceuticals are not easily biodegradable, persist in environment and their accumulation in environment pose risk to non targeted organisms, animals and may be humans. They are usually found in traces (nanograms to micrograms/litre) in drinking water; still they are known to affect aquatic life, vertebrates and invertebrates. They can travel up in food chain and can affect humans, usually indirectly. Antibiotics in sub therapeutic doses used as ‘growth promoters’ in poultry have resulted in MDR strains of human pathogenic organisms. Remedial measures of pharmaceuticals to decrease their impact on environment will also be discussed. As pharmaceuticals from...
