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Environmental risk assessment of pharmaceutical drug substances—conceptual considerations

Länge, Reinhard ; Dietrich, Daniel

Toxicology letters, 2002-05, Vol.131 (1), p.97-104 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Netherlands: Elsevier Ireland Ltd

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  • Título:
    Environmental risk assessment of pharmaceutical drug substances—conceptual considerations
  • Autor: Länge, Reinhard ; Dietrich, Daniel
  • Assuntos: Animals ; Concepts ; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug ; Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions ; Environmental Exposure - analysis ; Environmental Monitoring - methods ; Environmental Pollutants - toxicity ; Fresh Water - analysis ; Humans ; No-Observed-Adverse-Effect Level ; Pharmaceuticals ; Pharmacokinetics ; Risk Assessment ; Sewage - analysis ; Tailored approaches ; Tiered testing ; Toxicity Tests - methods
  • É parte de: Toxicology letters, 2002-05, Vol.131 (1), p.97-104
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  • Descrição: Drugs, i.e. active ingredients of human medicinal products, may be introduced into the environment after use in patients by sewage effluent pathways and consequently are detected at low concentrations in sewage effluents and in surface waters. Legal requirements in a number of geographical regions (Europe, US, and intended in Canada) demand environmental risk assessments (ERA) for new drug substances. Existing regulatory concepts of ERA are based initially on a set of short-term ecotoxicological studies in three to four different species, environmental behavior and the application of assessment factors to correct for the ERA inherent uncertainty. Based on theoretical considerations and the experience with a very limited, but well investigated, number of examples while considering that drugs are highly biologically active compounds, the appropriateness of this risk assessment procedure for all drug substances might be questioned. Indeed, e.g. long-term effects may occur at much lower concentrations and follow different toxicodynamic mechanism than extrapolated from short-term studies., In such cases, the application of assessment factors for deriving chronic no-observed effect concentration (NOECs) appears to be problematic. Although long-term tests with a variety of organisms would provide a complete database for the evaluation of the environmental risks, this is unachievable for all drugs due to time, money and animal welfare constraints. In order to avoid unnecessary testing, a concept is presented, which makes use of pharmacological and toxicological, as well as pharmaco- and toxicokinetic information derived from mammals during drug substance development. Useful data for adoption in a case-by-case testing strategy can be obtained by evaluating (a) the pharmacological activity, which indicates specific targets in mammalian species and may allow for an analysis, whether a similar target is available in aquatic species; (b) the mammalian toxicity, which may indicate, which targets are most susceptible to adverse effects; (c) the difference between acute and chronic effects in mammals, since the magnitude of this difference may indicate, whether long-term effects are expected at significantly lower levels than acute effects; (d) the (pharmacologically and toxicologically) effective plasma levels in mammalian test organisms, which may be compared with the relevant exposure scenario for the environment. Additionally, activity classes of compounds may be established based on experience with specific substances, in order to develop an appropriate test strategy. The above preliminary considerations should support decisions on the selection of candidate substances for chronic effects studies and for the appropriate selection of test species and endpoints to monitor. Generally, ecologically relevant endpoints such as impairment of growth, development and reproduction should be used to assess the ecotoxicologic effects.
  • Editor: Netherlands: Elsevier Ireland Ltd
  • Idioma: Inglês
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