Benign by design

In fact, incomplete and slow degradation has several consequences  

Fully degradable chemicals and pharmaceuticals avoid all these implications. Therefore, such an approach provides several incentives for manufacturers, users, and society as a whole. Such a new understanding would also regard low biodegradability after use as an unwanted side effect therefore, this would be an important aspect of pharmacovigilance [102]. 

This screening of physical/chemical properties that relate to pharmacokinetics is already widely used within the pharmaceutical industry [105]. The current methodology can easily be expanded to include properties relating to environmental fate and ecotoxicity. 

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Snider BB, McCarthy BA (1994) ACS symposium series benign by design 577 84... 

Anastas, P. T. and Farris, C. A., Eds. (1994) Benign by Design Alternative Synthetic Design for Pollution Prevention, American Chemical Society, Washington, DC. 

The concept of benign by design and sustainable pharmacy as a whole should be incorporated into the education of chemists and pharmacists. Such a new... 

As Anastas has pointed out, the guiding principle is the design of environmentally benign products and processes (benign by design) [4]. This concept is embodied in the 12 Principles of Green Chemistry [1, 4] which can be paraphrased as ... 

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