Avaliação de Potencialidade de Implantação de Sistema de Gestão Ambiental Dirigido às Empresas do Setor Farmacêutico Localizadas no Estado do Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

The pharmaceutical industry, in general, handling toxic substances, develops activities using as raw material one of the greatest natural resources: the water. Finally, to produce the medicine for the man benefits leave consequences and significant environmental impacts. The work intends to show that referred segment s in spite is seeking to adapt the legal obligations, such as sanitary surveillance, it is emphasizing on the quality of the product, to the detriment of the environmental aspects, even though having available an important tool for that: The Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) requirements for pharmaceutical products. The choice of the research s place was the state of Rio de Janeiro, among any other reasons, a historically site where companies in this section are located. The Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo states are bringing together the largest number of manufacturers of medicines in the country. Once the companies were identified, we proceeded with a preliminary survey, in order to define a group of companies with similar characteristics. As large companies at this segment are gifted with appropriated structure to the implementation of the environmental management system, they were outside this scope. It was out of this research the group formed by companies that import, pack, sell, but not manufacture the medicines and phytotherapeutical and veterinarian producers. The result of this research was that the number of private companies with employees between 50 and 500 and all public have disabilities to attend the legal environmental requirements, in other words, environmental issues are restricted to Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária (ANVISA / RDC-306) and the procedures for obtaining licenses from Fundação Estadual de Engenharia do Meio Ambiente (FEEMA). Only one out of twenty eight had searched have Environmental Management System (EMS) installed. Like all manufacturers of medicines must implement the requirements of the RDC-210 to obtain the certificate of GMP and the records of medicine, so they already have the culture, part of the requirements and the necessary tool to the settlement of an EMS in accordance with voluntary standards such as NBR ISO 14001 (2004). To prove this evidence, the study presented the case of public company gifted with innovative features and culture differently, because aggregates employees arising from private laboratories. This company manufactures exclusively vaccines, biopharm and reagents for diagnosis been a major export, subject to international inspections, such as the World Health Organization (WHO) for instance. It follows that companies prioritize the issues of ANVISA and environmental need to be monitored e mitigated. An Action plan for environmental improvements, addressing the EMS settlement and the achievement of a competitive differential can be done through the existing structure under the requirements of ANVISA to any company of the pharmaceutical sector