Water Quality: Guidelines, Standards, and Health : Assessment of Risk and Risk Management for Water-related Infectious DiseaseThe potential to increase consistency in approaches to assessment and management of water-related microbial hazards was tackled by an international group of experts concerned with drinking water irrigation and wastewater use and recreational/bathing water. It included individuals with expertise in public health epidemiology risk assessment risk management standards and regulation communication and economics. Subsequently a series of reviews was progressively developed and refined which addressed the principal issues of concern linking water and health to the establishment and implementation of effective affordable and efficient guidelines and standards. This book is based on these reviews together with the discussions of the harmonised framework and the issues surrounding it. This book will prove invaluable to all those concerned with issues relating to microbial water quality and health including environmental and public health scientists water scientists policy makers and regulators. |
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... detection and investigation are typically inadequate for this purpose. 1.5. FURTHER. DEVELOPMENT. The proposed harmonised framework has not yet been subjected to the acid test of implementation. Groups of experts, however, have tested the ...
... detection and investigation are typically inadequate for this purpose. 1.5. FURTHER. DEVELOPMENT. The proposed harmonised framework has not yet been subjected to the acid test of implementation. Groups of experts, however, have tested the ...
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... detection limits achievable under routine laboratory operating conditions and are recommended only when control techniques are available to remove or reduce the concentration of the contaminant to the desired level. Microbiological ...
... detection limits achievable under routine laboratory operating conditions and are recommended only when control techniques are available to remove or reduce the concentration of the contaminant to the desired level. Microbiological ...
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... detecting irregularities (not necessarily faecal contamination) in treatment and distribution. The concept of indicators is covered in detail in Chapter 13. In many developing countries, high quality water meeting the E. coli criterion ...
... detecting irregularities (not necessarily faecal contamination) in treatment and distribution. The concept of indicators is covered in detail in Chapter 13. In many developing countries, high quality water meeting the E. coli criterion ...
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... detection and survival in wastewater and on irrigated soils and crops, i.e. by what constitutes the so-called potential risk. In the light of the reviews undertaken, it was concluded that potential risk should not, alone, automatically ...
... detection and survival in wastewater and on irrigated soils and crops, i.e. by what constitutes the so-called potential risk. In the light of the reviews undertaken, it was concluded that potential risk should not, alone, automatically ...
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... detect a pathogen because the specific pathogen was not screened for or because the laboratory tests were not sufficiently sensitive. Even when the laboratory correctly identifies a pathogen, this may not be reported to appropriate ...
... detect a pathogen because the specific pathogen was not screened for or because the laboratory tests were not sufficiently sensitive. Even when the laboratory correctly identifies a pathogen, this may not be reported to appropriate ...
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Water Quality: Guidelines, Standards & Health Lorna Fewtrell,Jamie Bartram No preview available - 2001 |
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