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Valentina Giunchi

Valentina Giunchi

Pharmacovigilance researcher at Uppsala Monitoring Centre and University of Bologna, focused on ecopharmacovigilance and environmental pharmaceutical impact.

Jun 4, 2026

20:50
They are
20:51
usually synthesized in a measure that is the predicted no-effect concentration, shortened as PNUC.
20:58
that basically say that these thresholds are the toxicity thresholds for some aquatic species.
21:06
However, translating this threshold into the understanding of what is actually happening in the real aquatic environment is not very easy.
21:16
One major challenge is the data availability, because to assess the risk, we need to know how concentration of medicine in surface water change over time and over space.
21:30
And for doing this, we need environmental monitoring So someone that samples the water and says, oh, there is this concentration of this medicine.
21:41
However, the problem here is that this environmental monitoring of liver and legs is often limited by the feasibility and the cost because it's pretty expensive to do a lot of monitoring and results in few locations monitored and also not so frequently and also the number of substances to be limited.

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27:42
So which other solutions would have the most impact on reducing environmental exposure to medicines?

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