David Taylor is an environmental chemist with 38 years industrial experience of the evaluation, management and resolution of environmental issues in the heavy chemical, specialty chemical, agrochemical and pharmaceutical businesses.
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Strategies for Sustainability
Strategies for Sustainability A further contribution of mine to the debate on moving towards a sustainable pharmaceutical industry has recently been published in European Pharmaceutical Contractor.
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Ecopharmacovigilance – An update
Interest in ecopharmacovigilance has been given a boost by the appearance of a new EU Directive and associated regulation revising the law on pharmacovigilance.
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Green Initiatives in the Pharmaceutical Industry
The latest edition of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing (Vol 10 No 4, 2011) has just published a series of articles on this subject which are freely available in the on-line edition under the heading “What’s your true green?” I contributed one of these articles on the subject of Gaining Approval for Green Initiatives. This is based on [...]
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Peer Review
The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee in the United Kingdom Parliament is undertaking a study of the scientific Peer Review Process. I have submitted written evidence to the Committee which can be found here and forms one of the 90 current submissions.
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Are University Press Officers bringing science into disrepute and are they being aided and abetted by their academics?
When I was doing my PhD in the 1960s the world of science was a different place; for example, computers were very large machines housed in computer laboratories and my thesis had to be typed and figures drawn by hand. However, although there have been many beneficial advances in scientific research over the last 50 [...]
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Hazard vs Risk in EU Chemicals Regulation.
A recent paper in the new European Journal of Risk Regulation by Norlander et.al. continues the debate on hazard vs risk based approaches to chemicals regulation.
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ECOPHARMACOVIGILANCE – Where next?
A conference on the future of ecopharmacovigilance at which I presented a paper outlining the industry response to the isssue.
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Manufacturing Using Sustainable Chemistry (MUSC)
A new network for sharing information on the practical application of green chemistry
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SUBSTITUTION – What?, Why? and How?
The UK Chemicals Stakeholder Forum has just published a Guide to Substitution.
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ECOVIGILANCE – An essential requirement for the maintenance of biodiversity.
How do we add value to the ad-hoc biological monitoring already being undertaken so that the data generated might be used to minimise any environmental damage.
