Innovative Solutions for Sustainable Drug Development: ETERNAL Unveiled

Synopsis

In response to the amplified need for sustainable pharmaceutical supply chains and consumption patterns highlighted by events such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the ETERNAL project focuses on ensuring ongoing access to safe, high-quality, and effective pharmaceutical treatments while minimizing the environmental impact. The project embraces a full life cycle approach, encompassing design, manufacturing, usage, and disposal phases, and evaluates the environmental risks associated with active pharmaceutical ingredients, residues, metabolites, and other production-related by-products. Particular emphasis will be placed on advances in new solvent-free and continuous processing techniques in the preparation of medicines, thus adapting to the production requirements of the market and the increasingly high standards of sustainability.