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Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

valoriser les médicaments

English translation:

recycler

Added to glossary by Lionel_M (X)
Oct 7, 2009 07:03
14 yrs ago
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French term

valoriser les médicaments

French to English Medical Medical: Pharmaceuticals
I'm not sure if this could be "to salvage?" "to recover" in some way?

Les professionnels de la chaîne du médicament (pharmaciens d’officine, grossistes répartiteurs, entreprises du médicament) se sont engagés ensemble à mettre en place une filière spécifique : XXXXXXX. Cette association à but non lucratif collecte et valorise les Médicaments Non Utilisés (MNU), périmés ou non, rapportés par les patients dans les officines.

Thanks!
Proposed translations (English)
4 +3 recycler
4 +2 reclaim
4 re-use spare medicines as and when possible
4 evaluate/ assess
Change log

Oct 7, 2009 08:02: Stéphanie Soudais changed "Term asked" from "valoriser (médicament)" to "valoriser les médicaments"

Oct 21, 2009 09:45: Lionel_M (X) Created KOG entry

Discussion

Lionel_M (X) Oct 8, 2009:
Old meds One should also consider that the aim of "recycling" is also to withdraw from ambiant and bins out of date drugs that will end up in soils, fiumes....By "taking care of them", these associations or whatever they are, will chemically destroy these drugs to limit their impact on ambient. This is also part of "valorisation" and achieved by "recycling" these meds.
Lionel_M (X) Oct 8, 2009:
Lisa, I perfectly understand your meaning, but the fact is that, in this texte, it's written: "Cette association à but non lucratif collecte et valorise les Médicaments Non Utilisés (MNU)". So, Cyclamed or whoever is not relevant for the translation, as it is not relevant if it is true or not. The point is that we must translate that drugs will be "valorisées" in the context of an association which claims it will take care of them.
Sincerely, this business does not care about boxes, but cares about drug. For instance, many antibiotics are in box of 12 while you should take 2 pills a day for 5 days; the 2 remaining pills will be "good" for at least another year !
May be "recycling" does not cover exactly what is done with these drug, but in French, it is the formulation used when talking about drugs brought back to pharmacy. See ref in note. I hope this help
Richardson Lisa Oct 8, 2009:
Sorry Lionel, letting my thoughts run out loud again so not very clear. I don't think Cyclamed takes them anymore, last time I went into the pharmacy they said they couldn't guarantee what happened to the meds after. My concern with using the word recycling (which was my first thought) was that I don't see how they can recycle the out of date meds? They can recycle the packaging and presumably the unfinished in date ones,but what do they do with out of date ones? so this is what I meant about recycling being too specific and not covering all eventualities.
Lionel_M (X) Oct 8, 2009:
Il sa'git ici d'une association qui justement s'occupe de recycler les médicaments (valoriser). Personne ne dit que ceci se fait toujours, malheureusement ! En outre je ne comprends pas "exploit"
Richardson Lisa Oct 7, 2009:
Recycling Yes, this is the meaning, but I was under the impression every time I took my unfinished medicine into the pharmacy that they recycled them? Well at least the packaging etc.The word that comes to mind here is 'exploit' but that has negative connotations in English....Recycle is too specific...I'll keep thinking

Proposed translations

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4 hrs
Selected

recycler

Tout à fait d'accord avec Lisa, il s'agit ici je pense de récupérer les MNU pour les recycler.

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Note added at 8 hrs (2009-10-07 16:01:57 GMT)
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Recycle in English !

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Note added at 1 day2 hrs (2009-10-08 09:32:06 GMT)
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Le recyclage des médicaments par l'association Cyclamed est ...Suite à des anomalies pointées du doigt par l'inspection générale des affaires sociales, Cyclamed ne procédera plus au recyclage humanitaire des médicaments ...
www.actu-environnement.com/.../fin_recyclage_medicament_cyc... - En cache - Pages similaires
Collecte des médicaments non utilisés sous surveillance - Loi1901.comEn outre, l'interdiction de ce système de recyclage des médicaments à des fins ... à son association de don d'urgence, Tulipe, le soin de fournir les ONG. ...
www.loi1901.com/association/collecte_des_medicaments_non_ut... - En cache - Pages similaires
Fin du recyclage des médicaments par l'association Cyclamed - Le ...5 mar 2009 ... Après le décret du 1er avril 1992, obligeant les industriels à prévoir l'élimination, ou mieux le recyclage, des déchets et emballages issus ...
culturecontinue.over-blog.fr/article-28675384.html - Pages similaires
Les news de la Solidarité :18 jan 2008 ... Recyclage des médicaments, besoins sanitaires et contrefaçons : - Publié le ... L'Association CYCLAMED (créée en 1993 à l'initiative de ...
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Actualité - Recyclage des médicaments L'association Cyclamed mise ...Les entreprises pharmaceutiques paieront désormais la contribution pour le recyclage de leurs emballages à la société Adelphe, filiale d'Eco-Emballages, ...
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ASSF Recyclage Medicaments non utilisessolea solidarite enfant autisme association humanitaire catalane france roumanie. ... Le recyclage des MNU (médicaments non utilisés) fait des émules. ...
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Le recyclage des médicaments par l'association Cyclamed est ...Newspeg environnement: Suite à des anomalies pointées du doigt par l'inspection générale des affaires sociales, Cyclamed ne procédera plus au recyclage ...
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Développement durable - DéchetsRecycler les médicaments vers les pays pauvres ... site du centre national d'information indépendante sur les déchets, association écologiste créée en 1997. ...
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Peer comment(s):
agree Drmanu49 : This is the right meaning, not reclaim.
12 mins
Merci
agree Travelin Ann : but recycle
4 hrs
Oh yes, better in English.... !!! sorry
agree Joanne Archambault
15 hrs
Merci jO.
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Selected automatically based on peer agreement."
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French term (edited): valoriser (médicament)

reclaim

"Drug pollution stirs more anxiety in Europe, Canada and Australia, and officials in those places have acted more aggressively to
reclaim unused drugs."
http://tinyurl.com/yau86xp

"Twenty-seven retired volunteer physicians,.... work to legally reclaim unused prescription drugs from long-term care facilities and donate them to charity clinics. "

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Note added at 20 mins (2009-10-07 07:24:34 GMT)
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Another example:
"Unfortunately, no mechanism has been available heretofore for safely reclaiming unused medication."
http://tinyurl.com/yealf3g
Peer comment(s):
agree mimi 254 : il me semble
2 hrs
Thanks, Mimi.
agree Yolanda Broad : "reclaim" seems the most logical.
1 day 7 hrs
Thanks, Yolanda. I think so too :-)
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12 hrs

re-use spare medicines as and when possible


This would take care of all aspects...I feel !
You don't need to recycle systematically...
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1 day 8 hrs

evaluate/ assess

In this context, I feel basically what the organisation is doing is evaluating or assessing the worthiness of the medicines deposited by the customers in the pharmacy - based on the expiry date etc and categorizing them for taking the follow up action. In this context evaluate or assess might be a proper term to be used.
Example sentence:

Mechanisms to evaluate the clinical and/or cost-effectiveness of medicines are used in a majority of. European Union member states

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