Fewer medicines residues in water and soil to protect biodiversity and combat antibiotic resistance, while ensuring proper care for humans and animals, is the ambition set out by the Commission in the "Strategic Approach to Pharmaceuticals in the Environment" presented by the institution on Monday 11 March.
The main objectives of this very general 'strategic approach' are: – to identify actions to be taken or worth exploring to address the risks of pharmaceutical residues in the...