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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... human excreta (and indeed that unrecognised hazards from the same source exist). • The recognition that important health effects (both acute and delayed) may occur as a result of short-term exposure. • The approach (derived from ...
... human excreta (and indeed that unrecognised hazards from the same source exist). • The recognition that important health effects (both acute and delayed) may occur as a result of short-term exposure. • The approach (derived from ...
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... Human volunteer studies (highly controlled but artificial exposures amongst real human populations). • Microbiological risk assessment (which provides a framework through which data from multiple sources may be combined and used more ...
... Human volunteer studies (highly controlled but artificial exposures amongst real human populations). • Microbiological risk assessment (which provides a framework through which data from multiple sources may be combined and used more ...
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... human health appropriate to specific conditions. While this would require the embedding of water quality targets (in turn justified on the basis of targets for health protection) and also the development of measures and limit values for ...
... human health appropriate to specific conditions. While this would require the embedding of water quality targets (in turn justified on the basis of targets for health protection) and also the development of measures and limit values for ...
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... human exposure to pathogens does not imply that those pathogens should be directly measured, nor even that the capacity for such measurement should be within the analytical capacity of normal ('routine') monitoring laboratories, nor ...
... human exposure to pathogens does not imply that those pathogens should be directly measured, nor even that the capacity for such measurement should be within the analytical capacity of normal ('routine') monitoring laboratories, nor ...
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... human health, and to serve as a basis for development of national water quality standards. The guideline values recommended for individual constituents are not mandatory limits but if they are properly 18 Water Quality: Guidelines ...
... human health, and to serve as a basis for development of national water quality standards. The guideline values recommended for individual constituents are not mandatory limits but if they are properly 18 Water Quality: Guidelines ...
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Water Quality: Guidelines, Standards & Health Lorna Fewtrell,Jamie Bartram No preview available - 2001 |
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