New EU wastewater regulations are said to endanger the supply of medicines

In the future, an additional – fourth – treatment stage will be used in the sewage treatment plants of all cities in the EU with over 150,000 inhabitants microscopic impurities from the Sewage filters. This is what it says in the revision of the municipal wastewater directive. The EU primarily wants to remove substances from wastewater that are caused by… Medical and care products come from. The pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries are expected to bear a large part of the costs of expanding the sewage treatment plants.

Medicines are more expensive, production is unprofitable

The Austrian Chemical Industry Association (FCIÖ) is now warning about what consequences this could have. Higher costs for companies could affect the production of certain medications in the future no longer pay out. Die Prices of medication could increase.

The main culprit is apparently another industry

It is unfair that the EU sees the pharmaceutical and cosmetics industry as the main cause of micropollutants. Nonylphenolone of the most problematic substances, would come through Imports of cheap textiles in European wastewater. The chemical industry should now foot the bill for “Throwaway fashion” carry.

Revision of the directive required

“Here the right hand doesn’t know what the left hand is doing. On the one hand, good-sounding announcements are constantly coming Pharmastandort Europa and strengthen supply. At the same time, you create a regulation that… exact opposite “effects,” says FCIO chairman Hubert Culik. The EU member states are therefore well advised to opt for a rapid response Revision of the directive to prevent the “dramatic consequences” in good time.