The sewage treatment standards for the pharmaceutical industry will be difficult to introduce domestic companies

The newly formulated "Pollutant Water Pollution Discharge Standard" will end on November 20 for comments. From the 59th session of the autumn trade fair for raw materials and intermediates held in Shenzhen recently, it was learned that this standard will soon be introduced. After the introduction, new pharmaceutical companies or pharmaceutical equipment will begin to enforce new standards in July 2008, and existing companies or equipment must also be implemented in accordance with the new standards on July 1, 2010. The person in charge of the Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industry Association stated that the new standard is very difficult to implement for domestic companies.

Higher standards, more attention to detail

According to Zhou Fengbao, Director of the Science and Technology Standards Division of the State Environmental Protection Administration, China’s existing emission standards cannot meet the needs of environmental management. At present, China’s wastewater discharge standards for the pharmaceutical industry are implemented in the “Integrated Wastewater Discharge Standard” and Circular Letter [2002]. The relevant regulations only clearly specify the COD, BOD5, and ammonia nitrogen standard values ​​for pharmaceutical APIs and biopharmaceuticals, and the maximum allowable drainage volume for 15 pharmaceutical APIs for the pharmaceutical industry. Others are implemented by other pollutant discharge units. The indicators for the drainage of unit products of 15 pharmaceutical pharmaceutical raw materials in the pharmaceutical industry are mainly based on the domestic pharmaceutical production technology level in the early 1990s and need to be supplemented and optimized.

After decades of development, China has become the first exporter of APIs. Under increasingly severe environmental conditions, it is imperative to increase the pollution emission standards of the pharmaceutical industry.

Zhou Fengbao introduced the newly formulated "Pollutant Industry Water Pollution Discharge Standards", which classify subdivided fermentation, chemical synthesis, extraction, Chinese medicine, bioengineering, and mixed preparations into standards. Water pollution discharge limit table: existing enterprises water pollutant emission concentration limits; newly-built enterprises water pollutant emission concentration limits; current enterprises and newly-built enterprises water pollutant discharge advanced control technology limits. The first two limits are mandatory, and the geographical scope and time for implementing the advanced control technology limits for water pollutant emissions are stipulated by the provincial people's government.

The new regulation also uses a new term, “baseline displacement”, to determine whether the discharge is in compliance with the standard, that is, the discharge concentration limit for water pollutants specified in the “Emission Standard”. It applies only to the actual discharge of a unit product that is not higher than the unit product. Baseline displacement. If the actual product discharge per unit product exceeds the baseline discharge per unit of product, the measured water pollutant concentration shall be converted to the baseline water discharge concentration based on the pollutant discharge per unit of product, and the baseline pollutant discharge concentration shall be used as the basis for determining whether the discharge is in compliance with the standard. in accordance with. “In previous inspections, some pharmaceutical companies added a large amount of tap water to the discharged effluent, which reduced the concentration of harmful substances detected. The new standard refers to the daily reference discharge of the enterprise. If actual discharge occurs suddenly higher than the benchmark In the case of water discharge, it is still possible to use the formula to determine whether there is excessive standards,” said Zhou Fengbao. In addition, when an enterprise simultaneously produces two or more products with different reference discharges per unit of product, and the resulting sewage is mixed and discharged, there is still a formula to convert the reference water emission concentration of water pollutants.

Business faces a dilemma

According to Shen Xianji, deputy director of the Expert Committee of the China Chemical Pharmaceutical Industry Association, she understands that after reading the draft, many companies stated that the new standard is more strict and stricter than the original local standard and it is not difficult to implement it. In terms of energy saving and emission reduction, the state-to-business requirements will become increasingly severe. From the current perspective, energy-saving and emission-reduction are necessary, and emission reduction is based on the original reduction of emissions. Fundamentally, it should be resolved from technological innovation. problem. She believes that the use of environmental subsidies to encourage enterprises to make a fuss about environmental protection has certain rationality. However, judging from the current situation, enterprises need to carry out technological innovation to meet new standards. In the future, the State Environmental Protection Administration will continue to compile high-pollution, high-energy-consuming business directories. "Energy-saving and emission reduction" will no longer be a storm but will become a system.

After being listed on the "double high" list, many companies are facing the fate of closure. If pharmaceutical companies are listed on the list, they may suffer the same fate. Even if they continue to exist, they will be strictly controlled in terms of credit, land use, and tax rebates. However, some representatives of the pharmaceutical companies participated in the meeting and told reporters that environmental protection factors are taken into consideration. The production workshops of some enterprises need to be relocated away from the urban centers, but the profits of the current generic medicines are thin. Once the relocated companies lose money, the old chemical and pharmaceutical companies are also in a dilemma.

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