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AN ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY VERIFICATION (ETV) TESTING OF SEVEN TECHNOLOGIES DETECTING TOXICITY IN DRINKING WATER (R2)
Citation:
BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE, M. SCHROCK, R. JAMES, A. DINDAL, Z. WILLENBERG, AND K. RIGGS. AN ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY VERIFICATION (ETV) TESTING OF SEVEN TECHNOLOGIES DETECTING TOXICITY IN DRINKING WATER (R2). U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA/600/R-06/081 (NTIS PB2006-114709), 2006.
Impact/Purpose:
The overall objective of the ETV Program is to accelerate the entrance of new environmental technologies into the domestic and international marketplace by identifying the environmental performance characteristics of commercial-ready technology through the evaluation of objective and quality assured data. This provides the potential purchasers and permitters with an independent and credible assessment of what they are buying and/or permitting. The AMS Center has received funding to performance verify monitoring technologies relevant for homeland security.
Description:
Rapid toxicity technologies can detect certain toxins and with testing it can be determined their susceptibility to interfering chemical in controlled experimental matrix. Rapid toxicity technologies do not identify or determine the concentrations of specific contaminants, but serve as a screening tool to quickly determine whether the water is potentially toxic. The technologies in this case were tested for their ability to detect such contaminants as: industrial chemicals, pesticides, rodenticides, pharmaceuticals, nerve agents and biological toxins.