In the past, much of the pharmaceutical waste occurring at a pharmacy was due to expired pharmaceuticals. Actually in practice there are number of other factors also responsible for waste generation in pharmaceutical industry. The current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) and effluent emission (use and disposal) regulations of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and manufacturing effluent discharge, emission regulations of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) and ministry of environment protection of India require contained manufacture, use, and disposal of pharmaceuticals with the goal of minimizing the release of pharmaceutical chemicals into the environment. The presented review is focused on waste generation procedures and minimization efforts, procedure to dispose of different kinds of wastes in pharmaceutical industry.
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