25 Feb 2022 --- Supplement and pharmaceutical production is severely polluting the world’s ecosystems, according to new research conducted in Switzerland. Pollutants from caffeine manufacturing, in particular, were found in over half of samples obtained from 1,052 locations in 104 countries.The findings, now published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, indicate that pollution of this kind poses “a global threat to environmental and human health, as well as the delivery of the UN Sustainable Development Goals,” according to the researchers.