Excess medication often denied

Gepubliceerd op 5 mei 2016 om 08:36

A growing number of pharmacists refusing to take even longer return excess medication.

Its processing costs them too much money, KNMP association has confirmed to the newspaper.

Some of the customers therefore throw the drugs in the trash or toilet, which probably ends up more of this chemical waste into the environment. And that provides weather serious problems for the environment. Thus, hormones from contraceptive pills harmful to fish.

Pharmacists are not required medicines come to accept return. KNMP think a pharmacist annual average of 2,000 to 2,500 euros is lost to allow processing of drug waste. Moreover, the drugs can be taken away free of as hazardous waste.

By: Editor: Telegraaf.nl/Foto: Dutch Height

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