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Environmental Fate Studies

Before a product can be registered whether plant protection, pharmaceutical, animal health, biocide or industrial chemical, you need to know how it behaves once it reaches the environment, how it breaks down, where it moves and what it leaves behind. We provide the studies and the expertise to answer those questions with confidence.

What we offer

Our environmental fate and metabolism teams deliver the full range of GLP-compliant laboratory and field studies required for PPP, industrial chemicals, veterinary medicine, biocide and pharmaceutical registrations. We support clients from initial study design through to submission-ready data packages, wherever in the world they need to register.

EFate studies

Environmental fate studies underpin every environmental risk assessment, providing the evidence on how your product degrades, sorbs and moves through soil, water and sediment. We deliver the full range of regulatory-compliant studies from our GLP-accredited laboratories, with bespoke designs where standard guidelines aren't sufficient.

Livestock Metabolism & Residue Studies

Whether you're developing a veterinary medicine or an agrochemical with potential dietary exposure through livestock, accurate residue and metabolite data is non-negotiable. We deliver GLP-compliant ADME studies, metabolite profiling and residue characterisation from preliminary screening through to data needed to support your regulatory submissions.

Plant Metabolism Studies

Understanding what residues a plant protection product leaves in crops and how those residues behave is essential for assessing consumer dietary exposure. We deliver GLP-compliant primary crop metabolism, rotational crop metabolism and residue studies from dedicated, controlled facilities, growing crops from seed to maturity.

GLP study directors on staff

Every study is overseen by an experienced, qualified study director giving you regulatory confidence from design to final report.

Full spectrum of fate studies

Biodegradation, sorption, hydrolysis, photolysis, manure fate, field dissipation – we cover every process required for a complete environmental exposure assessment.

Radiolabelled and non-radiolabelled capability

We work with both 14C-radiolabelled and non-radiolabelled test substances, supporting studies across the full complexity range.

State-of-the-art analytical infrastructure

Our Thomson Suite houses over 40 instruments including LC-Orbitrap, LC-ToF, NMR and radio-HPLC giving you precise, defensible analytical data.

Bespoke study design as standard

We adapt standard guidelines to your specific compound, matrix and regulatory question from novel biocides to hard surface fate studies.

End-to-end programme support

From requirements assessment and experimental design through to dossier delivery and regulatory query response, we stay with you through the entire process.

Instruments on site

40+

Mass spectrometers and analytical instruments in our Thomson Suite, including Orbitrap and ToF technology.

Capacity increase

300%

Investment in our in-life laboratories has tripled our capacity for parent-associated metabolite fate studies.

The science behind safe product development

An incomplete or poorly designed fate study programme doesn't just delay registration; it puts the whole investment at risk. Our multidisciplinary teams combine agrochemical, veterinary medicine and industrial chemical industry experience with world-class analytical capability to make sure that doesn't happen.