The growing process of industrialization was a milestone for world economic evolution. Since the 1940s, social movements have revolutionized green chemistry and provided shifts in industrial positions and sustainable processes with advances in environmental impact and awareness of companies and population. Paul Anastas and John Warner, in the 1990s, postulated the 12 principles of Green Chemistry, which are based on the minimization or non-use of toxic solvents in chemical processes and analyzes, as well as, the non-generation of residues from these processes. One of the most active areas of Research and Development in Green Chemistry is the development of analytical methodologies, giving rise to the so-called Green Analytical Chemistry. The impacts of green chemistry on pharmaceutical analyzes, environmental, population, analyst and company are described in this review and they are multidimensional. Every choice and analytical attitude has consequences both in the final product and in everything that surrounds it. The future of green chemistry as well as our future and the environment is also contemplated in this work.

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Cefazolin sodium, a β-lactam antimicrobial agent belonging to the first generation cephalosporins, has a broad spectrum of action, acting against gram positive and gram negative bacteria. Stands out over other cephalosporins for its ability to also act against some species of Enterobacter, and have a long half-life, thus reducing the frequency of administrations. A simple, fast and reproducible method by visible spectrophotometry was developed and validated for quantification of cefazolin sodium in the lyophilized powder. This technique is widely used in the pharmaceutical industry due to its ease of execution, low cost, safety and high precision and accuracy. It has been employed in the quality control routine of numerous pharmaceuticals in order to identify them and quantify their active principles. The method was capable of detecting and quantifying the cefazolin sodium obtaining satisfactory results regarding selectivity, precision, accuracy and robustness, on linear range of 32.0 to 92.0 µg mL -1 , showing the correlation coefficient of 0.9993 when analyzed at 767 nm. Due to the environmental impacts caused by global economic development, green chemistry has come up with a proposal to minimize and/or eliminate the use of harmful solvents, which generate large amounts of toxic waste to the environment and the health of operators, as well as reducing expenses with costly processes. The proposed method does not use toxic solvent, proving to be effective, low cost, easy to apply and safe for the analyst and environment. *Corresponding AuthorsFax: +55 16 3301 6967 E-Mail: ac_kogawa@yahoo.com.br [a]