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Mass Spectrometry Identification of Toxicologically Important Drinking Water Disinfection By-Products
Citation:
RICHARDSON, S. D. Mass Spectrometry Identification of Toxicologically Important Drinking Water Disinfection By-Products. Chapter 12, Comprehensive Environmental Mass Spectrometry (Advanced Topics in Environmental Science): 4. ILM Publications, SAINT ALBANS, HERTFORDSHIRE, Uk, , 263-286, (2012).
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Description:
The disinfection of drinking water has been rightly hailed as a public health triumph of the 20th century. Before its widespread use, millions of people died from waterborne diseases. Now, people in developed nations receive quality drinking water every day from their public water systems. However, chemical disinfection has also produced an unintended health hazard: the potential for cancer and reproductive and developmental effects (including early-term miscarriages and birth defects) that are associated with exposure to chemical disinfection by-products (DBPs) in drinking water (Cantor et al. 2010; Nieuwenhuijsen et al., 2000; Richardson et al., 2007; Savitz et al., 2005; Villanueva et al., 2004; Waller et al., 1998). Millions of people are exposed to DBPs, not only by drinking chemically disinfected water, but also through other routes, including showering, bathing and swimming (Figure 12.1). Research is being conducted worldwide to solve these important human health issues.
