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RESOLUTION NO. 2009-105
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IN SUPPORT OF A SAFE, CONVENIENT
MEDICINE RETURN PROGRAM
City of Edina
WHEREAS: Communities across the country are struggling to implement and finance programs to address the
public safety impacts of leftover medicines in residents' homes, schools, supportive care facilities and police
evidence rooms.
WHEREAS: Storage of unwanted medicines in the home can result in accidental poisonings and increase
opportunities for drug abuse and unsafe diversion of prescription drugs.
WHEREAS: Many cities are launching prescription drug task forces and public awareness campaigns to try to
address these problems, but lack resources for collection and safe disposal of unwanted medicines.
WHEREAS: Pharmaceuticals are also an emerging environmental contaminant that are detected in surface
waters around the United States and in the drinking water of 24 major metropolitan areas affecting 41 million
Americans.
WHEREAS: Unused or unwanted quantities of prescription and over-the-counter medicines are projected to be
substantial, with some studies estimating that between 30% and 80% of patients do not finish commonly
prescribed medicines such as pain medicines, antibiotics, and beta blockers.
WHEREAS: Pharmaceutical manufacturers currently operate and fund successful unwanted medicine take-back
systems in Canada and several countries in Europe. A similar financing system can be developed in the United
• States that effectively covers the cost of collection, transportation, and safe disposal of unwanted medicines
without relying on local and state governments to pay these expenses.
WHEREAS: Current costs of mitigating impacts of improper management of unwanted medicines include:
providing related law enforcement staffing, operating poison control hotlines, providing coroner's office services,
and operating wastewater treatment and drinking water facilities.
WHEREAS: Current legislative efforts are proposed for safe disposal of unwanted prescription and over-the-
counter medicines by pharmaceutical manufacturers through the Minnesota Safe Drug Disposal Act, House File
1217 and Senate File 1568.
BE IT RESOLVED, that the Edina City Council supports maximizing the collection and safe disposal of
unwanted prescription and over-the counter medicines, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Edina City Council supports this collection through an internalized
pharmaceutical manufacturer financing mechanism that covers the cost of collection, transportation and
hazardous waste disposal; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the funding of this collection does not rely on state and local government
funding; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Edina City Council send a copy of this r6s lu on to the State Legislators
representing Districts 41 A& B.
Dated: December 11 2009
Attest: ZLL""�_P�� -
• Debra A. Mangen,City Jerk James B. Hovland, Mayor
City Hall 952-927-8861
4801 WEST 50TH STREET FAX 952-826-0390
EDINA,MINNESOTA, 55424-1394 www.cityofedina.com TTY 952-826-0379
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COUNTY OF HENNEPIN) SS
CITY OF EDINA )
CERTIFICATE OF CITY CLERK
I,the undersigned duly appointed and acting City Clerk for the City of Edina do hereby certify that the attached and foregoing Resolution was duly
adopted by the Edina City Council at its Regular Meeting of December 1,2009,and as recorded in the Minutes of said Regular Meeting.
WITNESS my hand and seal of said City this day of ,20_.
City Clerk
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