Oseltamivir Phosphatase Essay

Oseltamivir Phosphatase is metabolized to Oseltamivir carboxylate by the liver in humans. However, it does not metabolize further by the human body and excreted uncharged. It is explained that OC is the active moiety and as explained before, the molecule released uncharged by the patients taking it. The entire purpose of the experiment is to identify if the Oseltamivir is removed in normal sewage water treatment, and with this the quantification of the active moiety (the part of the drug that makes it work) OC that is excreted by patients.

5. What is the conclusion of Figure 2?
In figure 2 it can be observed the removal of OC du to degradation from different batch for different days (day1, 2, 3). The columns for RSW and AST show results