The Resource Consumption and Recovery Act (RCRA), 1976, encourages waste minimization via practices like source reduction and solvent recycle. Waste streams treated with the orthodox end-of-pipe treatment options like thermal incineration, chemical oxidation etc. has to be reported as RCRA hazardous. To avoid strict environmental regulations imposed on all such effluent streams, this paper expl...

Plant bioreactors are attractive expression systems for economic production of pharmaceuticals. Various plant expression systems or platforms have been tested with certain degrees of success over the past years. However, further development and improvement are needed for more effective plant bioreactors. In this review we first summarize recent progress in various plant bioreactor expression sy...

A simple, rapid, and selective quantitative nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopic method was evaluated for the determination of the content of fluorinated pharmaceuticals. 19F NMR spectra were either obtained in dimethylsulfoxide-d6 or aqueous buffer, using trifluoroacetic acid as internal standard. Quantification of 13 fluorine-containing pharmaceuticals spanning various pharmacological cla...

Pharmaceuticals in water can have potential toxic effects on environment and human. It is becoming an emerging research area. Pharmaceuticals have received a growing attention from environmental and health agencies all over the world due to recent studies showing the occurrence of pharmaceutical compounds in environment, especially in water bodies and have become one of the emerging water pollu...

The pharmaceuticals in its widen scope means drugs, diagnostics and other commodities that are used to treat disease, manage the condition along with tools and system which are used to diagnose the disease [1]. The pharmaceuticals are the result of extensive research effort which is usually governed by the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR). The IPR is protected by registering the pharmaceutica...