Human and veterinary pharmaceuticals and personal care products - cosmetics, food supplements, sunscreens, fragrances, etc. - may be released into sewage, rivers and groundwater after being ingested or applied. The first major symposium on the topic in the United States will be discussed Monday, March 27, 12:15 p.m. (PST), at the 219th national meeting of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society, in San Francisco, Calif.
WHO: Christian Daughton
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Las Vegas, Nev.
Overarching issues in pharmaceuticals and personal care products
Thomas Ternes
Institute for Water Research and Water Technology, Wiesbaden, Germany
Prescription drug residues in German waters
Thomas Heberer
Institute of Food Chemistry, University of Berlin, Germany
Traces of cholesterol-lowering drug in German sewage and water supplies; synthetic musks in human tissues and breast milk
David Epel
Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University,
Garden Grove, Calif.
How a compound in the environment enters a cell
WHAT: Environmental Effects of Pharmaceutical and Personal Care Products
WHEN: Monday, March 27, 12:15 p.m. (PST)
WHERE: Moscone Convention Center
747 Howard Street, Esplanade Level
Room 114
REPORTERS COVERING THIS EVENT MUST FIRST CONTACT THE ACS PRESS OFFICE AT THE MOSCONE CONVENTION CENTER, ROOM 216/218; TEL: 415-923-7510.
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Contact: Charmayne Marsh
y_marsh@acs.org
415-923-7510
American Chemical Society
22-Mar-2000