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Key Takeaways:
- Microplastics in drinking water raise concerns for pharmaceutical water systems.
- WFI is filtered and distilled, but no standards exist for microplastic limits.
- RO membrane filtration is the best pre-treatment for microplastic removal.
- Distillation methods help eliminate non-condensable particles and pyrogens.
- Regulators may need to update pharmacopeial standards for microplastic risks.
STERIS Finn-Aqua experts, have written "Microplastics and Water for Injection (WFI)".
Microplastics in drinking water and global water sources has been a recently growing topic among scientific research and environmental news. The presence of microplastics in the environment and the current lack of regulation around them raises concerns about plastics going into humans via our digestion system and similarly polluting all types of life forms in our seas, rivers and lakes. Read more on how this could be effecting the pharmaceutical industry and see it from their perspective.
