News

...from the project:

• Conference Announcement: On April 24-25, 2008, start, the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt and the University Hospital Freiburg will jointly organise the 1st International Conference on "Sustainable Pharmacy: Strategies and Perspectives in Development, Use and Emission Management of Pharmaceuticals". Within keynote lectures, thematic sessions and panel discussions renowned experts share their knowledge for the identification of key strategic elements of Sustainable Pharmacy...to conference website.

• New publication: In a recent publication in Green Chemistry Klaus Kümmerer explores the start strategy approach of a rational design of molecules by life cycle engineering. Read more...

• Lecture by Dr. Florian Keil (Institute for Social-Ecological Research) on "Invoking the Precautionary Principle - An Integrated Strategy to Reduce the Occurrence of Pharmaceuticals in the Water Cycle" at the conference "Environmental Risk Assessment of Human and Veterinary Medicines", September 25-25, 2007, Berlin (Conference page).

• Workshop-Contributions: The Workshop „Systemic Risks: New Strategies of Risk Governance for a New Type of Risks?“ took place on May 14, 2007, in Frankfurt/Main. With respect to societal problems like pharmaceuticals in the water cycle, release of genetically modified organisms and overweight and obesity in certain parts of the population, researchers from different disciplines discussed the question: How can systemic risk be characterised and which challenges follow from this for risk governance? Download workshop contributions (in German).

...on the subject:

• The German Environmental Advisory Council (SRU) emphasises in his recent statement on "Pharmaceuticals in the environment" the need to improve the database for environmental risk assessments of pharmaceutical inputs in the environment and suggests measures to minimise the pollution situation (http://www.umweltrat.de/index_II.htm).

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