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Irish Pharma Manufacturing — EPA Compliance Tracker

No other pharma media outlet tracks this. Real Industrial Emissions and Pollution Control licence data for Irish pharma & biopharma manufacturers, matched against our own verified facility list and pulled directly from Ireland's Environmental Protection Agency — not estimated, not modelled.

22Companies matched
26Licensed sites
4,724EPA records reviewed
57Currently open
What these numbers mean: Most EPA compliance records are routine environmental reporting (site updates, annual reports, monitoring returns) required of every licensed site as normal practice, not evidence of wrongdoing. "Incident" and "Non Compliance" are the categories that actually signal a deviation; both are shown separately below rather than folded into one number. Of 4,724 total EPA records reviewed, 1,094 are logged as Incidents and 365 as Non-Compliance findings — the rest is routine environmental reporting every licensed site files as a matter of course. Only 57 records are currently open across all 22 companies.

Coverage: Company names matched against EPA LicenceProfile records via deterministic search plus local-LLM adjudication (qwen2.5:14b) for ambiguous name pairs, every match manually reviewed. Not every company in our facility list has a matching EPA manufacturing licence -- some are R&D-only sites or too small to require one. This is real coverage, not padded coverage. Matched via 22 confirmed companies out of 213 in our facility list — the rest either don't hold a manufacturing licence in this class or weren't confidently matched, and are excluded rather than guessed at.

Source: EPA Ireland LEAP Open Data, licensed CC BY 4.0. Updated 2026-09-16.
CompanySitesIncidentsNon-complianceOpen now
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Cork
1 238 46 1
Abatement equipment off-line
Incident · Closed · 11 Aug 2026
Abatement equipment off-line
Incident · Closed · 2 Jul 2026
Trigger Level Reached
Incident · Closed · 22 Jun 2026
Trigger Level Reached
Incident · Closed · 3 Jun 2026
Unknown-surface water residue identified.
Incident · Closed · 3 Jun 2026
Trigger Level Reached
Incident · Closed · 3 Jun 2026
Trigger Level Reached
Incident · Closed · 3 Jun 2026
Trigger Level Reached
Incident · Closed · 13 May 2026
MSD
Carlow, Cork, Dublin, Louth, Meath, Tipperary
4 151 29 10
Uncontrolled Release
Incident · Open · 14 Aug 2026
Monitoring Equipment Issues
Incident · Closed · 17 Jul 2026
Trigger Level Reached
Incident · Closed · 13 Jul 2026
F-Gas release
Incident · Open · 3 Jul 2026
Leak from manholes on the foul and wastewater sewer network.
Incident · Closed · 8 Jun 2026
Uncontrolled Release
Incident · Open · 1 May 2026
Uncontrolled Release
Incident · Open · 30 Apr 2026
Trigger Level Reached
Incident · Closed · 30 Apr 2026
Merck Millipore
Cork
1 130 48 1
Trigger Level Reached
Incident · Closed · 7 Aug 2026
Trigger Level Reached
Incident · Closed · 10 Jul 2026
Monitoring Equipment Issues
Incident · Closed · 10 Jul 2026
Breach of ELV
Incident · Closed · 9 Jul 2026
ELV Exceedance
Non Compliance · Issued · 7 Jul 2026
Breach of ELV
Incident · Open · 18 Jun 2026
Trigger Level Reached
Incident · Closed · 15 Jun 2026
Trigger Level Reached
Incident · Closed · 1 Jun 2026
Hovione
Cork
1 59 19 5
Bunding & Materials handling
Non Compliance · Issued · 7 Aug 2026
Trigger Level Reached
Incident · Open · 4 Aug 2026
Abatement equipment off-line
Incident · Closed · 21 Jul 2026
Trigger Level Reached
Incident · Closed · 29 Jun 2026
Discharge to sewer, Ethanol is listed as an organic solvent.
Incident · Closed · 28 May 2026
VSD pump to Vara inlet failure.
Incident · Closed · 13 Nov 2025
Trigger Level Reached
Incident · Closed · 24 Mar 2025
Monitoring Equipment Issues
Incident · Closed · 27 Jan 2025
SK Biotek
Dublin
1 51 21 2
Trigger Level Reached
Incident · Closed · 10 Aug 2026
Trigger Level Reached
Incident · Closed · 27 Jul 2026
Uncontrolled Release
Incident · Open · 1 May 2026
Uncontrolled Release
Incident · Closed · 8 Apr 2026
Monitoring Equipment Issues
Incident · Closed · 1 Apr 2026
Uncontrolled Release
Incident · Closed · 26 Mar 2026
Trigger Level Reached
Incident · Closed · 22 Jan 2026
Non-notification of incidents
Non Compliance · Issued · 22 Dec 2025
Bristol Myers Squibb
Dublin
1 49 2 3
Monitoring Equipment Issues
Incident · Open · 8 Jun 2026
Trigger Level Reached
Incident · Open · 3 Jun 2026
Uncontrolled Release
Incident · Open · 12 May 2026
Trigger Level Reached
Incident · Closed · 27 Jan 2026
Trigger Level Reached
Incident · Closed · 13 Jan 2026
Monitoring Equipment Issues
Incident · Closed · 8 Dec 2025
Spillage
Incident · Closed · 3 Nov 2025
Trigger Level Reached
Incident · Closed · 21 Oct 2025
Novo Nordisk
Roscommon
1 47 3 4
Refrigerant Gas Leak
Incident · Open · 22 May 2026
Uncontrolled Release
Incident · Open · 22 Apr 2026
Bunding & Materials handling
Non Compliance · Issued · 9 Mar 2026
During routine maintenance a leak of refrigerant gas was detected on a heat pump unit that had been
Incident · Closed · 10 Jul 2025
During routine maintenance a leak of refrigerant gas was detected on a heat pump unit that had been
Incident · Closed · 7 May 2025
Leak of refrigerant gas from on-site chiller
Incident · Closed · 28 Apr 2025
F-Gas release from chiller
Incident · Closed · 24 Feb 2025
Uncontrolled Release
Incident · Closed · 24 Feb 2025
Boston Scientific
Cork, Galway, Tipperary
1 46 21 4
Uncontrolled Release
Incident · Open · 23 Jul 2026
Uncontrolled Release
Incident · Open · 8 Jul 2026
ELV Exceedance
Non Compliance · Issued · 1 Jul 2026
Breach of ELV
Incident · Closed · 22 Jun 2026
Uncontrolled Release
Incident · Open · 22 Jun 2026
False high flow readings caused by a suspected blockage in pipework. Not an actual over-discharge.
Incident · Closed · 21 Apr 2026
ELV Exceedance
Non Compliance · Issued · 16 Mar 2026
Monitoring Equipment Issues
Incident · Closed · 11 Mar 2026
Takeda
Dublin, Wicklow
1 46 54 3
Uncontrolled Release
Incident · Open · 19 Jun 2026
ELV Exceedance
Non Compliance · Issued · 10 Jun 2026
ELV Breach , NO₂ 168 mg/m³
Incident · Closed · 6 May 2026
Monitoring
Non Compliance · Issued · 22 Apr 2026
Non-notification of incidents
Non Compliance · Issued · 22 Apr 2026
Monitoring Equipment Issues
Incident · Closed · 18 Mar 2026
Uncontrolled Release
Incident · Open · 13 Mar 2026
Uncontrolled Release
Incident · Closed · 10 Oct 2025
Regeneron
Limerick
1 45 6 5
Trigger Level Reached
Incident · Closed · 3 Jul 2026
Uncontrolled Release
Incident · Open · 22 Jun 2026
Uncontrolled Release
Incident · Open · 22 Jun 2026
Uncontrolled Release
Incident · Open · 22 Jun 2026
F-gas - Leak Management
Non Compliance · Withdrawn · 30 Mar 2026
F-Gas Leak
Incident · Open · 18 Mar 2026
Breach in process drainage pipeline identified during non routine preventative maintenance of the PA
Incident · Closed · 19 Feb 2026
F-gas leak
Incident · Closed · 30 Jan 2026
Recordati
Cork
1 36 17 1
Trigger Level Reached
Incident · Closed · 10 Jun 2026
ELV Exceedance
Non Compliance · Issued · 10 Jun 2025
The Daily Mass Flow Limit (kg/day) for Total Phosphorous (0.75 kg/day) was exceeded.
Incident · Closed · 30 May 2025
Trigger Level Reached
Incident · Closed · 16 Apr 2025
Trigger Level Reached
Incident · Closed · 4 Apr 2025
Trigger Level Reached
Incident · Closed · 2 Apr 2025
ELV Exceedance
Non Compliance · Issued · 17 Dec 2024
The Daily Mass Flow Limit (kg/day) for Total Phosphorous (0.75 kg/day) was exceeded.
Incident · Closed · 10 Dec 2024
AbbVie
Cork, Dublin, Mayo, Sligo
2 32 16 2
ELV Exceedance
Non Compliance · Issued · 29 Jul 2026
Uncontrolled Release
Incident · Closed · 10 Feb 2026
Uncontrolled Release
Incident · Closed · 30 Jan 2026
Spillage
Incident · Closed · 25 Nov 2025
Monitoring Equipment Issues
Incident · Closed · 16 Jun 2025
ELV Exceedance
Non Compliance · Issued · 29 Apr 2025
Uncontrolled Release
Incident · Closed · 24 Apr 2025
Monitoring
Non Compliance · Issued · 4 Apr 2025
Alexion
Roscommon
1 32 27 5
Equipment malfunction
Incident · Closed · 7 Aug 2026
Uncontrolled Release
Incident · Open · 27 Jul 2026
Uncontrolled Release
Incident · Open · 27 Jul 2026
Non-notification of incidents
Non Compliance · Issued · 21 Jul 2026
ELV Exceedance
Non Compliance · Issued · 21 Jul 2026
Trigger Level Reached
Incident · Closed · 1 Jul 2026
Breach of ELV
Incident · Closed · 29 Jun 2026
ELV Exceedance
Non Compliance · Issued · 25 Jun 2026
Pfizer
Cork, Dublin, Kildare
1 28 4 2
Loss of 46.3kg R407F refrigerant
Incident · Closed · 15 Jun 2026
Weak effluent from the OSP3 manufacturing facility in Ringaskiddy, Co. Cork inadvertently entered th
Incident · Closed · 2 Jun 2026
Monitoring Equipment Issues
Incident · Closed · 26 Jan 2026
Leak of F-Gas
Incident · Closed · 19 Dec 2025
F-Gas leak
Incident · Open · 26 Sep 2025
F-Gas leak
Incident · Closed · 26 Sep 2025
Loss of 72.7kg of R407F
Incident · Closed · 26 Sep 2025
Loss of F-Gas
Incident · Closed · 25 Sep 2025
Guerbet
Dublin
1 25 22 0
Ambient ELV breach
Incident · Closed · 16 Jan 2026
Breach of ELV
Incident · Closed · 7 Jul 2025
ELV Exceedance
Non Compliance · Issued · 5 Jun 2025
ELV Exceedance
Non Compliance · Issued · 5 Jun 2025
Ambient ELV breach
Incident · Closed · 19 May 2025
Ambient ELV breach
Incident · Closed · 19 May 2025
ELV Exceedance
Non Compliance · Issued · 29 Apr 2025
Ambient ELV breach
Incident · Closed · 8 Apr 2025
Beckman Coulter
Clare
1 23 4 1
Trigger Level Reached
Incident · Closed · 10 Aug 2026
Trigger Level Reached
Incident · Closed · 9 Jul 2026
Trigger Level Reached
Incident · Closed · 9 Jun 2026
Breach of ELV
Incident · Closed · 11 May 2026
Trigger Level Reached
Incident · Closed · 8 May 2026
Trigger Level Reached
Incident · Closed · 7 Apr 2026
Trigger Level Reached
Incident · Closed · 26 Mar 2026
Trigger Level Reached
Incident · Closed · 5 Feb 2026
Ipsen
Dublin
1 21 17 1
Monitoring Equipment Issues
Incident · Closed · 18 Jun 2026
Refrigerant leaks
Incident · Open · 10 Apr 2026
Abatement equipment off-line
Incident · Closed · 10 Jun 2025
F-gas leak
Incident · Closed · 11 Apr 2025
F-gas leak
Incident · Closed · 31 Jan 2024
Abatement equipment off-line
Incident · Closed · 25 Oct 2023
Breach of ELV
Incident · Closed · 11 Oct 2023
Abatement equipment off-line
Incident · Closed · 3 May 2023
Lilly
Cork
1 20 7 3
F-Gas loss.
Incident · Open · 22 May 2026
F-Gas loss.
Incident · Open · 18 May 2026
F-Gas loss.
Incident · Open · 24 Mar 2026
ELV Exceedance
Non Compliance · Issued · 20 Nov 2025
Breach of ELV* (*Note: This option is not selected under 'Incident nature' category section of t
Incident · Closed · 13 Nov 2025
Monitoring Equipment Issues
Incident · Closed · 30 Oct 2025
F-Gas leaks from F-Gas containing equipment year to date during 2025.
Incident · Closed · 15 Sep 2025
Monitoring Equipment Issues
Incident · Closed · 18 Aug 2025
Jazz Pharmaceuticals
Roscommon
1 11 0 4
Malfunction of autosampler on SE-1 discharge point.
Incident · Closed · 22 May 2026
Uncontrolled Release
Incident · Open · 24 Mar 2026
Investigation ongoing by the Operations team
Incident · Closed · 11 Dec 2024
Interim groundwater value exceeded
Incident · Closed · 31 Oct 2023
Uncontrolled Release
Incident · Closed · 12 Jul 2023
Non-sampling of emissions to sewer
Incident · Closed · 28 Jul 2022
Trigger Level Reached
Incident · Closed · 22 Jun 2022
Spillage
Incident · Closed · 6 Apr 2022
Amgen
Dublin
1 4 2 0
Refrigerant loss from freeze dryer compressor due to pin hole leak
Incident · Closed · 22 Sep 2025
Fgas leak on compressor of vendor owned blast freezer Fgas leak of R448a. 26kg leak of new R448a
Incident · Closed · 11 Dec 2024
ELV Exceedance
Non Compliance · Issued · 7 Nov 2022
1)Parameter Total flow 2) Result 504.3m/3 3)Continuous 4) 26/08/2022
Incident · Closed · 26 Aug 2022
Exceedance of a Soil Vapour SSAC.
Incident · Closed · 17 Nov 2021
Miscellaneous
Non Compliance · Issued · 9 Mar 2021
Baxter
Dublin
1 0 0 0
No Incident or Non-Compliance records found for this company's licensed site(s).
TopChem Pharmaceuticals
Sligo
1 0 0 0
No Incident or Non-Compliance records found for this company's licensed site(s).