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	Monitoring & Testing E-Zine July 2008

This Month´s Featured Articles, Papers & Reports

Detection of chemical contaminants in food and water
Public concern over the safety of food and drinking water is increasingly in the news around the world. Already this year, there have been reports of tainted rice from China, food coloring additives in Europe, and traces of pharmaceuticals found in drinking water in more than 25 metropolitan areas in the United States. This presents a challenge for national governments and local municipalities to deploy more testing capabilities to prevent public health situations created by the potentially toxic ...

Remote sensing of emissions: new technologies and recent work
The Second International Workshop on Remote Sensing of Emissions: New Technologies and Recent Work was held April 1-3, 2008. The workshop was sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency`s (EPA) Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards at Research Triangle Park (RTP), Office of Research and Development (RTP), and Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response (HQ). At the workshop, studies involving the use of differential absorption light detection and ranging systems (DIAL), solar occultation ...

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Measurement uncertainty
The IAEA/WHO Network, through Secondary Standards Dosimetry Laboratories (SSDLs) designated by the Member States, provides a direct linkage of national ...
A conceptual framework for US EPA’s national exposure research laboratory
The challenges of environmental protection range from understanding the potential risk associated with exposure of humans and ecosystems to a newly manufactured ...
Guidelines for the use of mosses and soils in monitoring contaminant fallout
In 1999 Italy’s Environmental Protection Agency (ANPA) published a paper on the methods to be used in the case of mosses and soils. After nearly a decade, ...
Detailed hydraulic assessment using a high-resolution piezocone
Department of Defense (DoD) ground water assessment and remediation projects require cost effective methods for determination of the direction and rate ...
Testing confirms more efficient fertiliser use lifts gross margins
This article discusses how accounting for the variation in crop yield potential due to season and soil type when formulating fertiliser rates can increase ...
Monitoring effects of climate change on eutrophication in the Northern Baltic Sea
This WWF report analyses the impacts of climate change on eutrophication in the northern waters of the Baltic Sea. Two scenarios are presented. The first ...
Constraints to irrigation water conservation implementation
Owing to the soil nutrients erosivity by water flow the amount of minerals of water resources differ from place to place. When the irrigation take place ...
InfoWorks WS helps manage network shutdowns
InfoWorks WS includes enhanced tools for analyzing the shutdown of parts of a water supply network. The new Shutdown Simulation analysis enables efficient ...

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