VetScen
Scenarios for the environmental risk assessment of veterinary medicines in Europe
Background
The registration of veterinary medicines in the European Union requires
assessing the potential surface water contamination by a substance on a
European scale. Veterinary medicines are spread to land in manure or excreted
during grazing and may enter surface waters through runoff, erosion or
leaching. Since the factors driving these processes vary largely within Europe,
it is necessary to identify characteristic conditions, so-called scenarios,
under which veterinary medicines enter surface waters. These scenarios are used
in higher tiers of the environmental risk assessment.
Content
This page allows you to download maps with the location of scenarios in Europe identified by a statistical analysis of geo-referenced driving variables. For more details please refer to the publication below.
These preview images show the scenarios with relevance for:
| Runoff | Erosion | Leaching |
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Download
Maps are available as ASCII-Grid Files with ArcGIS header. These can be easily imported in ArcGIS or R.
- clusters_runoff.txt
[627 kB]
- clusters_erosion.txt
[630 kB]
- clusters_leaching.txt
[629 kB]
Reference and citation
Schneider MK, Stamm C, Fenner K. 2007. Selecting scenarios to assess exposure of surface waters to veterinary medicines in Europe. Environmental Science & Technology, 41, 4669-4676. http://library.eawag.ch/EAWAG-Publications/pdf/Eawag_04885.pdf
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