Pharmaceutical Residues in Fresh water Pose Environmental Risk
According to the research by environmental experts at Radboud University, levels of the antibiotic ciprofloxacin have reached the point of potentially causing damaging ecological effects.
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Remember This: The research is the first to examine the risks of two particular medicines in global freshwater sources, and is being published in Environmental Research Letters. |
ePiE Model
- Information availability is a major problem in the proper mapping of the risks of medicines in the environment worldwide.
- Although there are models that can predict concentrations of drugs in the environment on a detailed scale, such as the ePiE Model, these can often only be ....
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