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Abstract

Scientific and Practical Conference “Environmental Protection. Environmental Risk Assessment for Radiopharmaceutical Waste Management” was held on June 02 at Saint Petersburg State Chemical and Pharmaceutical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation hosting in-person event for the first time in nearly a year.

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Vladimir Perelygin

The conference was devoted to the pharmaceutical, biomedical and biological areas of development, production and use of radiopharmaceuticals (RP), as well as the management of medical waste arising in this process. The problem of environmental policy and sanitary regulations harmonization of the Russian Federation and the IAEA in the field of Nuclear and Radiation Safety was considered.

The conference brought together experts from Saint Petersburg Chemical and Pharmaceutical University, P.V. Ramzaev Saint Petersburg Research Institute of Radiation Hygiene, A.M. Granov Russian Scientific Center for Radiology and Surgical Technologies, N.N. Petrov National Medical Research Center of Oncology, V.G. Khlopin Radium Institute, Nikiforov’s All-Russian Center for Emergency and Radiation Medicine, Saint Petersburg State University of Veterinary Medicine, Saint Petersburg Research Center for Ecological Safety of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the heads and leading experts of a number of medical and pharmaceutical organizations.

Reports from conference participants have clearly shown that the development, production and use of RP in Saint Petersburg, one of the main centers of radiopharmacy in Russia, are well under way. New drugs are being developed to fight those diseases, the fight against which has been a serious problem for medicine until now.

The participants intend to cooperate in several areas, combining their resources, experience and efforts to deepen and develop educational and scientific activities in the field of radiation medicine and pharmacy, as well as the environmental management system.

Based on the results of the forum, a special issue of the “Pharmacy Formulas” journal was published – the scientific publication “Proceedings of the Scientific and Practical Conference: “Environmental Protection. Environmental Risk Assessment for Radiopharmaceutical Waste Disposal”.

Check our website https://journals.eco-vector.com/PharmForm/issue/view/3384 to get the access to the conference reports, scientific and practical problem-solving methods, approaches to the training of radiation medicine specialists.

We hope that the discussion of the conference participants and our readers on the development, research and application of radiation technologies and RP in clinical practice will continue in the sections of our publication.

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