Ask the Expert Webinar series

Pharmaceutical and Personal Care Product Challenges in Non-Conventional Matrices

About this webinar:

Pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) represent a large subset of contaminants of emerging concern labeled as endocrine disruptors.  The endocrine system is a balanced network of glands and hormones that regulates developmental activities such as growth, behavior, metabolism, intelligence, sexual development, and the ability to reproduce as well as many other functions.  To date, many studies have characterized the PPCP contamination in rivers and lakes across the country, and as the effects of these contaminates are unfolding, researchers are looking beyond water ways for these chemicals.

TestAmerica continues to partner with public and private researchers looking for PPCPs as they pass from non-point sources into sensitive ecosystems.  Our method development has expanded our PPCP testing capabilities into sediment and tissue samples to find these contaminants where endocrine disruption is occurring.  Making the leap from testing water to more complex matrices requires solutions for increased matrix related interferences and extraction enhancements that effectively remove the target compounds from the sample.  Our success with complex matrices is helping answer difficult questions where PPCP contamination may be lurking.

Topics the presentation will cover:

• A brief introduction to PPCPs
• Significant non-point sources of PPCPs
• Environmental impact of PPCPs
• A tissue study related to PPCP contamination
• A sediment survey of PPCP contamination

Who should attend?

• Water industry Consultants
• Wastewater Treatment Operators
• Landfill Operators
• Site Owners
• Regulatory Officials

A question and answer session will immediately follow the presentation. At the conclusion of each webinar, you will be asked for your feedback and opinions for future webinar topic to be developed by TestAmerica.