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ETV Report and Statement for ENDETEC TECTA™ B-16 BY PATHOGEN DETECTION SYSTEMS, INC.
Citation:
James, R., B. Cutie, AND A. Dindal. ETV Report and Statement for ENDETEC TECTA™ B-16 BY PATHOGEN DETECTION SYSTEMS, INC. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA/600/R-14/307, 2014.
Impact/Purpose:
The ETV AMS Center Water Stakeholder Committee identified the use of coliform detection technologies for the monitoring of drinking water (DW) as an area of interest for technology verification. Fecal pollution can introduce disease-causing (pathogenic) bacteria, viruses, and parasites into receiving waters, which may serve as private/public DW supplies. Utilities fully recognize the possibility of this waterborne pollution and take every precaution (filtering, treatment with disinfectants such as chlorine and chloramines, and regulatory compliance sampling and analysis) to avoid fecal contamination in DW.
Description:
This report provides results for the verification testing of the ENDETEC™ TECTA B-16 by PDS (hereafter referred to as the TECTA™ B-16). The following is a description of the TECTA B-16, based on information provided by the vendor. The TECTA B-16 is a bench top detection and data logging system for the analysis of TC and EC in water samples. It utilizes an enzyme substrate test to simultaneously detect the presence of TC (β-galactosidase enzyme) and EC (β-glucuronidase enzyme).