
Valentina Giunchi
Pharmacovigilance researcher at Uppsala Monitoring Centre and University of Bologna, focused on ecopharmacovigilance and environmental pharmaceutical impact.
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Jun 4, 2026
#46 Protecting the health ecosystem – Valentina Giunchi & Joe Mitchell
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usually synthesized in a measure that is the predicted no-effect concentration, shortened as PNUC.

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that basically say that these thresholds are the toxicity thresholds for some aquatic species.

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However, translating this threshold into the understanding of what is actually happening in the real aquatic environment is not very easy.

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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.

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And for doing this, we need environmental monitoring So someone that samples the water and says, oh, there is this concentration of this medicine.

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