Quantification of pharmaceutical waste, environmental and economic burden in Finland

• In: Poster presentation
• At: Buenos Aires (Argentina) (2016)
• Type: Poster
• Poster code: POS-CPS-043
• By: KUJALA, Vesa (The Association of Finnish Pharmacies (AFP), Helsinki, Finland)
• Co-author(s): Vesa Kujala:|Johanna Salimäki:|Sanna Siissalo:|Charlotta Sandler:|Katariina Kalsta:
  
• Abstract:

  Finnish municipalities have legal responsibility to manage household originated pharmaceutical waste. Community pharmacies serve as disposal points. The amount of waste is high and more information is needed on why medicines are not used as planned but returned either partially or totally unused.

  Community pharmacies were asked to list all

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