The UBA database – “Pharmaceuticals in the environment”

Umweltbundesamt Umweltbundesamt (2016) CC
Pharmaceutical residues occur globally in the environment. This is demonstrated in the updated database “PHARMS-UBA”. Residues of pharmaceuticals in the environment have been measured in 89 countries in all UN regions. For Germany, 414 active substances or their transformation products were reported, 749 for the European Union and 992 worldwide.