Drug pollution: industry responds

Chemical Manufacturing Industry Pollution Prevention

Can you use more information about making your chemical operations more profitable? More likely to be in compliance, or better? More environmentally friendly, using pollution prevention? Would you like to get the basics in one place? Ohio EPAs Office of Pollution Prevention has done some of that work for you. This packet has several of the best, most beneficial and commonly referenced technical...

Biomagnetic monitoring of industry-derived particulate pollution.

Clear association exists between ambient PM₁₀ concentrations and adverse health outcomes. However, determination of the strength of associations between exposure and illness is limited by low spatial-resolution of particulate concentration measurements. Conventional fixed monitoring stations provide high temporal-resolution data, but cannot capture fine-scale spatial variations. Here we examine...

Control of Pollution in the Chemical Industry

Pollution problems in the metallurgical industry: A review

Processing of minerals and production of metals has increased greatly in recent years. As a result, the quantities of waste material and pollutants have also increased. In many cases technology has changed to cope with the problem. Processes have been either modified to decrease emissions, or replaced by others that are less polluting even if at a higher cost. This paper briefly reviews example...

New Zealand’s Drug Development Industry

The pharmaceutical industry's profitability depends on identifying and successfully developing new drug candidates while trying to contain the increasing costs of drug development. It is actively searching for new sources of innovative compounds and for mechanisms to reduce the enormous costs of developing new drug candidates. There is an opportunity for academia to further develop as a source ...