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Environmental fate studies are key to providing the data required by chemical companies to complete thorough environmental risk assessments (ERA). They provide information on the fate and behaviour of chemical products in the environment, and contribute to the determination of the risk posed to human and environmental health. Metabolism studies are conducted to determine the nature of residues and the test substance’s metabolic pathways in animals.
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See details ->If you are a company developing veterinary products or plant protection products (PPPs), it’s essential that you fully assess the risks posed by your products to the wider environment and natural ecosystems. In the face of ever-tightening regulation and restrictions on the chemical options available, Fera can help you to develop effective, sustainable products that minimise ecosystem impacts and pollution, while maximising the beneficial effects for crops, plants and animals.
Our services and expertise provide essential support on your road to successful product registrations and ongoing due diligence – whether for pesticides, veterinary medicines or pharmaceuticals. We provide a range of services from single studies to complex, whole programmes, including dossier preparation and submission. An understanding of the environmental fate processes can ensure that your applications are not only effective, but are also environmentally safe, providing you with the data you need to make product development decisions and obtain product registrations. Our multidisciplinary teams combine decades of agrochemical and veterinary drug industry experience with world-class technical expertise and analytical capabilities. We operate in GLP-compliant facilities with the UK providing regulatory compliant studies for submission in all geographic regions.
Fera’s environmental fate studies include a range of regulatory compliant tests to assess the biodegradation of chemicals in soil and water. By understanding how chemical products are broken down and degraded in the natural environment, we can supply the data you need for your environmental risk assessments – ensuring you meet all regulatory requirements in the development of safe new chemical products. With improved capacity of 300%, as more parent-associated metabolite fate studies become necessary, we can offer the entire spectrum of laboratory and higher-tier environmental fate studies with more efficient turnaround times. We’re committed to helping clients get more products to market with investment in our people and more efficient equipment to provide bespoke and innovative solutions.
Our investment in our HPLC lab provides customers with a more efficient and cost effective service. With our SoFie™ modules we can detect smaller levels of radioactivity due to the stop-flow mechanism. With improved sensitivity of signal to noise SoFie™ gives better counting statistics without adversely affecting the chromatography. We also offer a range of bespoke studies, which meet regulatory requirements. We can tailor the design of standard recognised regulatory studies to meet your specific objectives. Our scientists will work with you to understand the requirements of your ERA, and can amend the test matrix, design and analysis to suit the analyte in question. Our expert team supports you through the entire regulatory process, from answering questions about compound formulation to fielding regulator queries on submitted risk assessments.
Eleanor is the Environmental Fate and Metabolism Laboratory Manager at Fera ensuring the laboratories and procedures performed are GLP compliant. Eleanor makes sure that the work produced is of high quality and actively investigates the improvement of our capabilities to suit customer requirements.
Our laboratories are equipped with state-of-the-art facilities that enable cost-effective GLP-compliant environmental fate studies to be performed, in line with all regulatory requirements, including:
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