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Live Webcast April 25, 2008: Managing Potential Risks of Animal Antibiotics and Hormones in Manure

Last Updated: April 24, 2008 | Related resource areas: Animal Manure Management
The April 2008 live webcast is "Managing Potential Risks for Antibiotics and Hormones in Animal Manure". The program will begin at 2:30 p.m. Eastern. The virtual meeting room will be open 15 minutes before the start time.

Released April 23, 2008

Animal antibiotics and hormones can be a risk to water quality and human health and safety. Learn the ways that antibiotics and hormones can reach water, their occurrence, and best management practices to prevent movement to water.

The Webcast is open to all. Join in to learn about the transport and fate of these compounds. The speakers will discuss detection in water bodies and best management practices to prevent the chemicals movement to water.

Speakers

Linda Lee, Professor of Environmental Chemistry at Purdue University

Keith Loftin, chemist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Lawrence, Kansas

Jessica Davis, Director of the Institute for Livestock and Environment at Colorado State University

Live webcast at

2:30 p.m. Eastern

1:30 p.m. Central

12:30 p.m. Mountain

11:30 a.m. Pacific

The Livestock and Poultry Environmental Learning Center is dedicated to the vision that individuals involved in public policy issues, animal production, and delivery of technical services for confined animal systems should have on-demand access to the nation's best science-based resources. More...

The virtual meeting room will be opened 15 minutes before the scheduled start time. To test your software and connection before the webcast, go to How Do I Participate?

Download the speaker's Power Point Slides at Live Webcast Information

Contact: Jill Heemstra, LPE Learning Center Coordinator, jheemstra@unl.edu


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