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Demands for environmental testing of antibacterials to be used in Norwegian fish farming and environmental solutions
Røed, H. (1992). Demands for environmental testing of antibacterials to be used in Norwegian fish farming and environmental solutions, in: De Pauw, N. et al. (Ed.) Aquaculture and the Environment: reviews of the International Conference Aquaculture Europe '91, Dublin, Ireland, June 10-12, 1991. EAS Special Publication, 16: pp. 265-276
In: De Pauw, N.; Joyce, J. (Ed.) (1992). Aquaculture and the Environment: Reviews of the International Conference Aquaculture Europe '91, Dublin, Ireland, June 10-12, 1991. Special Publication European Aquaculture Society, 16. European Aquaculture Society: Gent. ISBN 90-71625-10-9. 536 pp., more
In: Special Publication European Aquaculture Society. European Aquaculture Society: Bredene. ISSN 0774-0689, more
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  • Røed, H.
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    The Norwegian State Pollution Control Authority (SFT) has intensified its efforts to combat pollution from fish farms during the last 2 years. One of our main goals is to reduce the total amount of harmful drugs that reach the environment surrounding fish farms. We recognize the need for more information about the various antibacterial chemotherapeutics and especially how they affect the environment surrounding fish farms. We therefore wish to require environmental testing of new drugs before their use is permitted in fish farms. Such tests will provide the State Pollution Control Authority with the necessary information to decide whether new chemicals should be permitted for use in Norway. Chemotherapeutics must be environmentally acceptable, and easily biodegradable, and should not be bioaccumulative. Their metabolites must meet the same criteria. Antibacterial chemotherapeutics fed to farmed fish, hut not consumed by them, must be removed from the environment immediately. Feed containing antibacterial chemotherapeutics must be collected and destroyed in such a way that it does not cause pollution. Technology which can be used to solve this problem is already available in Norway when the fish farmers use dry feed pellets, as most of them do.
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