Open Seminar: Chemicalization – Pharmaceuticals in the Environment (3.11.2021)

22.09.2021 | Event

3.11.2021

09:00–14.00 (Helsinki time)

Virtual event (Zoom). 

Welcome to discuss the topical issue of chemicalization of the environment from the perspective of pharmaceuticals. Pharmaceutical residues are an ever-increasing pollutant in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. In this stakeholder event you have an opportunity to hear and discuss the current status and future needs of risk assessment of chemicals, especially those of pharmaceuticals, from regulatory and scientific perspectives. Seminar is free of charge. The language of the event is English.

Programme

9:00 Welcome address

Jari Yli-Kauhaluoma, Professor, Head of the Sudden Consortium, University of Helsinki
Kari Jalonen, Research Area Lead, Demos Helsinki

9:15 Finland’s new chemicals programme – a status update

Eeva Nurmi, Ministerial Adviser, Ministry of the Environment

9:30 SUDDEN Research highlights relevant for the theme

Pharmaceutical residues in the critical waste treatment processes
Sari Kauppi, Senior Research Scientist, Finnish Environment Institute, SYKE

Pharmaceutical residues in sewage sludge
Heidi Ahkola, Researcher, Finnish Environment Institute, SYKE

Elimination of pharmaceutical residues at the WWTP
Mika Mänttäri, Professor, LUT University

Impact of pharmaceutical mixtures on drug elimination in fish in vitro
Tea Pihlaja, Doctoral Student, University of Helsinki

Regulation of global emerging risks: case pharmaceutical pollution
Mirella Miettinen, Senior Researcher, University of Eastern Finland

Break

11:00 Keynote: Science policy interactions in risk assessment and management of chemicals

Marlene Ågerstrand, Assistant professor, Stockholm University

11:30 Keynote: Assessing the risk of complex environmental exposures: a focus on pharmaceuticals

Thomas Backhaus, Professor, University of Gothenburg

Break

12:30 Panel discussion on the role of scientific knowledge in risk assessment and management of chemicals

Moderator: Niina Vieno, Water Expert, Law and Water Ltd
Panelists: Eeva Nurmi, Ministerial Adviser, Ministry of the Environment
Marlene Ågerstrand, Assistant professor, Stockholm University
Thomas Backhaus, Professor, University of Gothenburg
Virpi Virtanen, Senior Officer, Finnish Safety and Chemicals Agency, TUKES

13:45-14 Closing of the event & farewell

Register via link. Once registered you will receive a confirmation mail with a link to the seminar.

More information on the seminar:

Sanja Karlsson, tel. 050 3486246
sanja.karlsson@helsinki.fi

Kari Jalonen, tel. 040 5801967
kari.jalonen@demoshelsinki.fi

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