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UTILITY OF PHARMACEUTICALS AND OTHER EMERGING CONTAMINANTS AS CHEMICAL INDICATORS OF HUMAN FECAL CONTAMINATION
Citation:
GLASSMEYER, S., E. FURLONG, D. KOLPIN, K. P. BRENNER, T. WADE, E. SAMS, R. L. CALDERON, A. P. DUFOUR, AND M. BEACH. UTILITY OF PHARMACEUTICALS AND OTHER EMERGING CONTAMINANTS AS CHEMICAL INDICATORS OF HUMAN FECAL CONTAMINATION. Presented at EPA's National Beaches Conference, Niagra Falls, NY, October 11 - 13, 2006.
Impact/Purpose:
The initial objective is to evaluate a large suite of chemical compounds for their correlation the incidence of illness due to human contamination of water sources. The ultimate objective of this task is to develop and evaluate a method that will determine the two to five strongest chemical candidates that are associated with human waste streams, and determine their ability to monitor water quality and predict human health effects in source and finished waters as a surrogate for traditional methods of human fecal contamination.
Description:
This poster was presented at the EPA's National Beaches Conference, Niagra Falls, NY, October 11-13, 2006