Pharmaceutical Chemistry: “Plants Can Free Europe from Its Dependence on Critical Metals”

The European pharmaceutical industry relies on imported critical metals and production that has been largely offshored to Asia, at the cost of long-term soil and water pollution and the emergence of drug-resistant bacteria. Yet a groundbreaking solution exists: ecocatalysis, explains Claude Grison, a research director at the CNRS.

Les Echos
February 10, 2026

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