This project is co-financed with state support from the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic under the Environment for Life Program from EU funds under the National Recovery Plan - Tools for Recovery and Resilience.
Veterinary drugs in the environment
Project title: Methods reducing the risks of circulation of veterinary drugs in the environment.
Project number: SS06020173
Program: Program aplikovaného výzkumu, experimentálnı́ho vývoje a inovacı́ v oblasti životního prostředí – Prostředí pro život; Podprogram 2 – Ekoinovace, technologie a postupy pro ochranu životního prostředí
Duration: 04/2023-12/2025
Funding: Technology Agency of the Czech Republic
Investigator: Radka Podlipná
Team: Lenka Langhansová, Petr Soudek, Kateřina Moťková
Co-investigators: Agrovyzkum Rapotin Ltd., VÚCHS Rapotin Ltd, Charles University
Goal of project: The project aims to develop relevant methods for determining the content of selected drugs in organic fertilizers and plants and to define the risks of the circulation of veterinary drugs and their residues in the environment. The other aim is to provide comprehensive information on the translocation of these substances from the roots to aboveground parts of plants, their biotransformation or accumulation of parent substances, and their metabolites in various types of tissues. These findings will serve to create a methodology for using energy crops for phytoremediation of like this polluted soils. The results of the project will bring into practice methodologies for handling the manure of treated animals in a way with no negative impacts in the fertilizer-soil-plant system.
Main idea and schedule of the project proposal: The aim of the project is to define and develop a reliable analytical method for identifying and quantifying anthelmintics in livestock manure. The project also focuses on the application of the resulting organic fertilizer to soil and the study of drug intake, translocation, accumulation, and biotransformation in economically important crops (corn, radishes, tomatoes, soybeans, poplar). Based on these results, the risk of drug transfer to soil and field crops will be assessed and a method for the safe handling of cattle manure after antiparasitic prophylaxis will be developed. This will include the design of phytoremediation technologies for the remediation of contaminated soil using energy crops.
Project results: The project will result in verified technologies:
V1-Treatment and disposal of manure from treated cattle
V2-Technology for determining anthelmintics and their residues in soil and plant tissues
V3-Phytoremediation technology for removing anthelmintics from the environment
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