Illinois Sustainable Technology Center - University of Illinois
INRS State Scientific Surveys
PPCPs in the Environment
The frequent occurrence of pharmaceutical and personal care products (PPCPs) in the aquatic environment is an emerging environmental issue in the U.S. Two important sources of PPCP contaminants in the environment are municipal/industrial sewage treatment plants (STPs) and concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs).
Scientists at the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center (ISTC) are conducting several studies associated with PPCPs: (1) developing analytical methods using LC/MS/MS; (2) investigating environmental fate and transport; (3) identifying contamination sources, and (4) remediating or mitigating environmental contamination from PPCPs. For more information on ISTC's PPCP research, please contact Teresa Tam or Wei Zheng.
ISTC Report and Bibliography
ISTC has a report titled PPCPs in the Illinois Environment: Current Information and Research Recommendations available for viewing.
ISTC's librarian has created a bibliography of publications related to the characterization, analysis, fate, toxicology, and treatment of pharmaceuticals and personal care products in the environment.
PPCP Symposium
ISTC hosted a symposium on pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) in the Illinois environment on April 25th, 2008. Below are the video archives of the presentations as well as links to download the slides in PDF or PowerPoint. All videos require Windows Media Player 9 or above.
Presentations are in order of appearance.
- Presented By: Tom Hornshaw and Marcia Willhite - Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
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- Presented By: Mike Caughy - IL State Water Survey
- Presented By: John Kelly - Dept. of Biology, Loyola University-Chicago
- The slides are unavailable for this presentation.
- Presented By: Patrick Hayes - Dept. of Chemistry, Northwestern University
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- Presented By: Kevin Johnson - Dept. of Chemistry and Environmental Sciences, SIU-Edwardsville
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- Presented By: Teresa Chow - Analytical Services, WMRC
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- Presented By: Jeff Levengood - IL Natural History Survey and Dept. of Veterinary Biosciences, UIUC
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- Only the last half of this presentation is available due to technical problems.
- Presented By: Elizabeth Murphy - U.S. EPA Great Lakes National Program Office
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- Presented By: Susan Boehme - IL-IN Sea Grant/U.S. EPA GLNPO
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- Presented By: David Lordi - Metropolitan Waste Reclamation District of Greater Chicago
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- Presented By: Timm Strathmann - Center of Advanced Materials for the Purification of Water with Systems, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UIUC
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- Presented By: Terry Johnson - Groundwater Protection Program, Waste Management
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- Presented By: Esther Dundore - Environmental Management and Compliance, Illinois American Water
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