Pharmaceuticals and personal care products in the Canadian environment : Produits pharmaceutiques et de soins personnels dans l'environnement au Canada

The work- shop was hosted by the Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Environment Canada, Health Canada, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Rural Affairs, the Canadian Water Network, and the Walkerton Clean Water Centre, and was attended by over 150 scientists and regulators from across Canada. [...] Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products in the Canadian Environment: Research and Policy Directions 7 3.0 Overview of the State of the Science A series of invited speakers provided the current state of science and research for PPCPs in the Canadian environment. [...] This presentation gave a general overview of the control of environmental exposure to agricultural inputs, background information on the PPCPs content in human waste, research characterizing the off-site movement of PPCPs from fields receiving biosolids, and a preliminary analysis of the Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products in the Canadian Environment: Research and Policy Directions 15 relat [...] Estimates of the total mass of the model PPCPs potentially released into aquatic environments in runoff from agricultural fields amended with biosolids in the province of Ontario were orders of magnitude lower than the total mass of these compounds estimated to be released in the effluent of Ontario WWTPs. [...] The objectives of the project are to contribute to the improvement of knowledge and procedures for the environmental risk assessment of human and veterinary pharmaceuticals.