[ensu] Thu Oct 3 IES/GOEHU Environment & Health seminar
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- Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 16:11:29 -0400 (EDT)
--- Mona El-Haddad <m.elhaddad@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: "Mona El-Haddad" <m.elhaddad@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <m.elhaddad@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Thu Oct 3 IES/GOEHU Environment & Health
> seminar
> Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 10:47:10 -0400
>
> Institute for Environmental Studies &
> Gage Occupational and Environmental Health Unit
> Environment and Health Seminar
> THUR OCTOBER 3 , 4:00 p.m.
> Room 113, Koffler Institute for Pharmacy Management
> 569 Spadina Ave., at Bancroft Ave., north of College
> St.
>
>
> David Gannon, Head, AstraZeneca Environmental
> Laboratory, Sheridan Park,
> Mississauga, Ontario.
>
> Pharmaceuticals in the environment: the issues and
> the search for
> solutions
>
> For a map and updates, please see
> http://www.utoronto.ca/env/seminars/e
> <http://www.utoronto.ca/env/seminars/e&h-fall.html>
> &h-fall.html
>
> No registration required - all are welcome.
>
> Abstract:
> In the last few years, pharmaceuticals have been
> detected at extremely
> low levels in lakes and rivers around the world.
> Earlier concerns were
> raised about the impact of endocrine disrupting
> chemicals at very low
> levels on human health and the environment, and some
> impacts on the
> environment have now been substantiated. Similar
> questions are now
> being raised about pharmaceuticals, but although the
> presence
> pharmaceuticals has been clearly demonstrated, very
> little effects data
> for environmentally realistic concentrations exist.
> Reducing present
> levels will not be easy, as the majority of
> contamination comes not from
> manufacturing facilities, but from users: some
> elements of the solution
> may include more careful disposal of unused
> pharmaceuticals in hospitals
> and at home, and in the longer term, design of more
> readily degradable
> pharmaceuticals. This seminar will survey the
> latest information on the
> subject, and discuss how risks may be evaluated and
> managed.
>
> For more information, please contact
> Mona El-Haddad (416-978-6526;
> <mailto:m.elhaddad@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> m.elhaddad@xxxxxxxxxxx)
>
> REMAINING FALL SEMINARS:
> THU OCTOBER 24 2002
> Eric Holowaty, Head of Surveillance, Cancer Care
> Ontario
> Spatial surveillance of cancer in Ontario
>
> THU NOVEMBER 14 2002
> Michael Jerrett, Assistant Professor, School of
> Geography and Geology,
> McMaster University
> Spatial analysis of the air pollution-mortality
> association
>
> THU NOVEMBER 28 2002
> Gary Liss, Assistant Professor, Department of Public
> Health Sciences and
> Gage Occupational and Environmental Health Unit,
> University of Toronto;
> Medical Consultant, Ontario Ministry of Labour
> Comparison of medically unexplained symptoms between
> radiographers and
> physiotherapists
>
>
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