Stakeholder discussions continue in Finland

News 2021-06-11 at 12:29

Experts from the Finnish Environment Institute and the Finnish Medicines Agency Fimea discussed the CWPharma findings and the Action Plan proposed by the project in June 2021. 

In the discussions CWPharma shared the information it has gathered on the amounts of human and veterinary medicines used in the Baltic Sea Region as well as the amount of API´s found in the Finnish sampling areas and the risks they pose to the environment.

The meeting discussed for example the importance of reporting the API sales as mass units as this would ease estimating the emissions and identifying the compounds that may pose a risk to the environment.

"In CWPharma, we needed to do a lot of manual work to convert the available API sales statistics into kilograms per year", tells Project Leader Noora Perkola. "The Finnish Medicines Agency Fimea is now aiming to report the sales also in mass units, and we wish that this will be done also in other countries." 

Presentations of the meeting (in Finnish):

Noora Perkola SYKE: Tervetuloa ja hankkeen yleisesittely (pdf)Opens in new window

Lääkeaineiden päästöt, pitoisuudet ja vaikutukset ympäristössä

Terhi Lehtinen Fimea: Eläin- ja ihmislääkkeiden käyttömäärät.pdfOpens in new window

Ville Junttila SYKE: Suomen kohdetutkimusten tulokset - ympäristöpitoisuudet.pdfOpens in new window

Lauri Äystö SYKE: Lääkeainekuormien ja ympäristöpitoisuuksien mallinnus.pdfOpens in new window

Katri Siimes Lääkeaineiden aiheuttamat riskit Suomen kohdetutkimusalueilla.pdfOpens in new window

Lääkeainepäästöjen hallinta

Lauri Äystö Päästöjen vähennyskeinojen vertailu (pdf)Opens in new window

Jukka Mehtonen CWPharma-hankkeen suositukset (pdf)Opens in new window