Medical pollutants released to the ocean by type and classification
Measurement answer
What this metric measures
Reports medical pollutants released to the ocean from seafood production, classified by medicine or pollutant type, with hormone releases quantified as kilograms of substance per tonne of seafood produced.
Specification
Metric specification
- Result format
- Structured table
- Unit
- Structured table — see field-level units
- Reporting basis
- Organisation-defined reporting period for pollutant releases and seafood production; the extracted evidence does not prescribe a period convention.
- Aggregation
- Report separately by medical pollutant type and classification; do not aggregate categories where units or conversion methods are not disclosed.
- Pillar
- Environmental
- Topic
- Pollution affecting marine ecosystems
- Controlled domain
- Pollution
- Entity type
- Metric
Reporting boundary
Medical pollutants released to the ocean from seafood production within the reporting organisation's disclosed operational and value-chain boundary.
Verified source occurrences
Framework coverage
This is one canonical metric. The bindings below show every verified framework occurrence without creating duplicate metric pages. Edition, disclosure, role, and relationship remain source-specific.
- Adopting DisclosureSource evidence
TNFD sector guidance
- Publisher
- Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
- Edition
- Final English sector guidance collection through August 2026 (17 documents)
- Requirement
- Not Specified
- Relationship
- Defines Disclosure
- Mapping outcome
- Direct Evidence
- Source locator
- TNFD additional sector guidance, Page 74, core sector metrics table, official code A.C3.1 | A.C3.1 evidence summary: medical pollutants released to the ocean, including antibiotics, other pathogen medicines by type and classification, and hormones; hormones quantified in kg of substance per tonne of seafood produced. | Page 74, core sector metrics table, A.C3.1
- Adopting DisclosureA.C3.1
TNFD sector guidance
- Publisher
- Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
- Edition
- Version 1.0, June 2024
- Requirement
- Conditional
- Relationship
- Maps Source Identity
- Mapping outcome
- Published
- Source locator
- Page 74, core sector metrics table, A.C3.1
Value structure
Dimensions and units
- Unit
- Structured table — see field-level units
- Reporting basis
- Organisation-defined reporting period for pollutant releases and seafood production; the extracted evidence does not prescribe a period convention.
Unit meaning: Each field uses its stated unit and retains the applicable sector, reporting boundary, period and method.
Table fields and units
- Medical pollutant type
- Medical pollutant classification
- Quantity released to ocean
- Hormone release intensity
- Seafood produced
- Release measurement or estimation method
Published dimensions
- medical pollutant type
- medical pollutant classification
- receiving environment
- seafood production denominator
- reporting boundary
Disclosure method
Formula information
- Status
- Not applicable
- Formula type
- Structured Disclosure
Disclosure form
No single formulaReport the source-defined result with its stated fields and method disclosures. A.C3.1 describes a separately reportable pollution outcome rather than an emission factor, eligibility test or illustrative context item. It contains multiple pollutant fields and only evidences a specific quantitative unit for hormones, so it is retained as a structured reporting table rather than flattened into one scalar intensity. The SFDR and TNFD LEAP shortlist items have different pollutant classes, receiving media, financial or LEAP boundaries, and value shapes, so none is the same canonical construct.
Verified sources
Evidence and status sources
Sustopedia checked each record-specific claim directly against primary publisher material. Labels distinguish current measurement authority from future compatibility and corroborative, legal, edition, or method status context. Corroborative evidence can support a stated limitation but cannot establish the core measurement by itself.
Measurement evidence
- Measurement evidenceChecked 30 August 2026
TNFD additional sector guidance collection
- Publisher
- Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
- Edition
- Final English sector guidance collection through August 2026 (17 documents)
- Locator
- TNFD additional sector guidance, Page 74, core sector metrics table, official code A.C3.1 | A.C3.1 evidence summary: medical pollutants released to the ocean, including antibiotics, other pathogen medicines by type and classification, and hormones; hormones quantified in kg of substance per tonne of seafood produced. | Page 74, core sector metrics table, A.C3.1
Supports: The official TNFD sector guidance supports the identity, boundary and method basis of “Medical pollutants released to the ocean by type and classification”.
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Use with context
Interpretation boundaries
Method disclosures required
Source-edition basis: TNFD sector guidance, Final English sector guidance collection through August 2026 (17 documents).
- Disclose each medical pollutant type and classification, including antibiotics, other pathogen medicines and hormones where applicable.
- Disclose the quantity released to the ocean and the unit used for each reported pollutant field.
- For hormones, report kilograms of substance per tonne of seafood produced.
- Disclose the seafood-production denominator and its production boundary.
- Disclose the release boundary, including the operations and value-chain stages covered.
- Disclose the method used to measure, estimate or calculate pollutant releases.
Record-specific limitations
- The extracted evidence specifies an intensity unit for hormones but does not evidence one common unit for every medical-pollutant category.
- Antibiotics and other pathogen medicines must remain separately classified unless a disclosed, evidence-based conversion or aggregation method is used.
- The source evidence does not specify a common release-measurement method, organisational consolidation approach, or value-chain coverage.
Interpret this metric with the stated reporting boundary, period convention, value shape, and unit. Results prepared with different boundaries or conventions may not be directly comparable.
Measurement evidence supports the core record-specific claims described above. Corroborative evidence can support limitations, while compatibility and status sources provide their separately labelled context. None of these cards by itself determines an organisation's legal applicability, filing readiness, assurance status, or compliance conclusion.