Parasiticides & Pollution: PREPP

PREPP - Producing Rational Evidence for Parasiticide Prescription

If you knew that every time you used flea treatment on your pet it polluted our waterways, threatened millions of species of wildlife and damaged our ecosystem, what would you do?

Every day, households across the country use common flea treatments on their pets. Pioneering research has revealed that through mundane daily activities like handwashing, pet flea treatments are exposing our waterways to startling levels of harmful toxic chemicals.

Just one dose of flea treatment can be powerful enough to kill 25 million bees: and with over 20 million cats and dogs in the UK, the true magnitude of this threat is only now being understood. 

The PREPP group explores and evaluates the environmental risks posed by veterinary medicine pollution to gauge ecological impacts and to explore possible solutions.

It works to evaluate the pathways, impacts and potential solutions to limit the environmental risks posed by common parasiticides, while also developing evidence to inform future policy and legislative action.

The pathways of pet parasiticides into UK water supplies [right click to enlarge]