Pharmaceuticals

Clarification on some aspects of the European Medicine Agency’s revised ERA guidance

February 6, 2026 by Olivia Tran

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) held a webinar on the revised guideline for the environmental risk assessment (ERA) of human pharmaceuticals in October 2025, and a summary…
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Recent experience in implementing the European Medicine Agency’s revised ERA guidance

January 13, 2026 by Olivia Tran

wca have been working with pharmaceutical innovators and generics companies on environmental risk assessments (ERA) since the European Medicines Agency (EMA) published their original guidance on conducting ERAs in 2006.
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Approaches to meet the new Pharmaceutical Environmental Risk Assessment Guidance

November 20, 2024 by Becky Brown

New guidance for the European Medicine Agencies (EMA) pharmaceutical environmental risk assessment (ERA) were published in February 2024, effective from September 2024. The new ERA guidance leads…
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Pharmaceuticals in the Environment – a Global Challenge Session at SETAC Europe

May 10, 2021 by Dean Leverett

I co-chaired a live virtual discussion on Pharmaceuticals in the Environment in the final session block of SETAC Europe 2021. The discussion was split into three blocks, each covering a…
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Perspectives on Relevancy Assessment for Non Standard Ecotoxicity Data in Environment Quality Standard derivation: Examples for Diclofenac

October 15, 2020 by Graham Merrington

Graham, Adam and Dean have just published the paper “Perspectives on Relevancy Assessment for Non Standard Ecotoxicity Data in Environment Quality Standard derivation: Examples for Diclofenac” in Bulletin…
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