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Microbial risk assessment framework for exposure to amended sludge projects [1]

Although the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has a long history of using risk-based approaches for regulatory purposes, pollutant limits for pathogens in biosolids are not currently based on quantitative risk assessments. The researchers developed and demonstrated a risk-based methodology for assessing the risk to human health from exposure to pathogens via biosolids.

Publication Date: 
01/06/2008
Joseph N.S. Eisenberg [2], Kelly Moore [3], Jeffery A. Soller & et al [4]
Environmental Health Perspectives [5]
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Agriculture [6], Health Effects [7], Sewage Treatment Plants (STP) [8], Sewage [9], Micro Organisms [10]
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