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ACS GCI Pharmaceutical RoundtableACS GCI Pharmaceutical Roundtable
  • Home
  • Foundation
    • Background to Green Chemistry
    • Introduction to the Pharmaceutical Industry
    • Pharmaceutical Process Chemistry
    • Critical Elements
    • Renewable Resources
    • Solvents
  • Guides and Metrics
    • Solvent Selection Guides
    • Reagent Guides
    • Metrics
  • Solvents
    • Use of Solvents
    • Issues Surrounding Solvent Use
    • Solvent Guides
    • Solvent Recovery
    • Alternative Solvents
    • Telescoping
    • Solvents: Quiz
    • Solvents: Study Exercises
    • Solvents: Summary and Further Reading
  • Synthetic Toolbox
    • Route Selection
    • Base metal Catalysis
    • Biocatalysis
    • Multicomponent Reactions
    • C-H Activation
    • Carbonylation
    • C-F Bond Formation
    • Flow Chemistry
    • Amidation
    • Synthetic Biology
    • CHEM21 Publications
  • Process Design
    • Route Selection
    • GMP
    • Introduction to Process Engineering
    • Route Selection and Scale Up: Case Study and Exercise
    • Process Safety
    • Reactive Hazards in Scaling Up: Case Study and Exercise
    • Reaction Work-up and Product Isolation
    • Design of Experiments
    • Environmental Legislation
    • Abatement and Waste Treatment
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    • Examining the Life Cycle
    • The Fate of APIs
    • Benign by Design
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  • Life Cycle Impacts and Environmental Fate of Pharmaceuticals
  • Examining the Life Cycle
  • Appendix: Carbon Footprinting Assumptions

Appendix: Carbon Footprinting Assumptions


The carbon footprinting for the anti-inflammatory API was done with the ABPI tool. The Code of Practice related to the ABPI tool can be found here.

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    • Drivers Towards Whole-process Thinking
    • Challenges in Effecting Change
    • LCA Examples
    • Primary Manufacturing
    • Secondary Manufacturing
    • Packaging
    • Pharmaceuticals in the Environment (PIE)
    • Appendix: Carbon Footprinting Assumptions
    • Examining the Life Cycle: Quiz
    • Examining the Life Cycle: Summary and Further Reading
  • The Fate of APIs
    • Routes into the Environment
    • Areas of Concern
    • Adsorption and Decomposition Pathways
    • Specific Examples of the Fate of APIs
    • Environmental Risk Assessment (ERA)
    • The Fate of APIs: Quiz
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    • Scope for Biodegradable API Molecules
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