Environmental monitoring can play a vital scientific role in not only the long term, but also the short term growth of your pharmaceutical business.  Through knowledge and understanding you'll be better equipped to avoid potential environmental violations, potential contamination problems, not to mention offer key ecological management and research.  Environmental-monitoring is essential to any pharmaceutical company to determine the correct environmental planning and policy for business.  However, the benefits of environmental monitoring are not always clear, and it has been criticized in the past for being too costly, without enough justifiable upside.  So is environmental monitoring really vital to the Ecosystem Management of your business?