Project Objectives:
AIMS
To investigate the links between
(A) types of manufacturing;
(B) volumes produced;
(C) levels of antibiotics in industrial discharges;
(D) environmental concentrations;
(E) potential impacts on human and animal health.
OBJECTIVES
1) Quantify the levels of antimicrobial pollution from antimicrobial manufacturing waste;
2) Develop cost-effective methods for monitoring antibiotics and AMR in the receiving environment;
3) Investigate the proliferation of AMR in receiving environments and the risks to human and animal microbiomes;
4) Strengthen India’s capacity to introduce a framework for monitoring antibiotics in manufacturing effluent and enforce emission limits;
5) Develop low-cost, mass balance methods and risk assessment tools that predict concentrations and risk based on production loads of antibiotics & AMR, and make policy recommendations for international environmental standards for antimicrobials in manufacturing effluents and receiving environments.
Project webpage link: AMR-WATCH