About the research
How many antibiotics are in the environment? And which antibiotics are we talking about? The Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (ILVO) thoroughly mapped this out for the first time. What emerged? "Antibiotics are widespread in the environment. We often find them in manure and in the soil, sometimes in fairly high concentrations. This is less the case in water and vegetables," researcher Geertrui Rasschaert explains. At the LVO, they now want to find out where and how we should intervene to reduce antibiotics in our environment, such as through manure treatment or water purification techniques.
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