PREPARE

Welcome to PREPARE

PREPARE is a UK Natural Environment Research Council knowledge exchange initiative with the overall aim to integrate the information and expertise required to assess the implications of pharmaceutical usage during a major disease outbreak for the environment, and the risk posed to current wastewater infrastructure.

The PREPARE Initiative aims to inform policy, regulation and emergency planning to ensure that ecotoxicologic and human health risks associated with pharmaceutical usage under pandemic and epidemic conditions are thoroughly assessed utilising all and currently available knowledge.

Featured Article

Dissipation and removal of oseltamivir (Tamiflu) in different aquatic environments

Chemosphere 79(8):891-897

Cesare Accinellia, Maria Ludovica Saccà, Jerker Fick, Mariangela Mencarelli, Richard Lindberg and Björn Olsen

A series of laboratory experiments investigated the fate and the removal of oseltamivir in two surface water ecosystems of Japan and in a municipal wastewater treatment plant located in Northern Italy.