Commercialization in the meat-processing industry has emerged as one of major agrobusiness challenges due to large volume wastewater produced during slaughtering and cleaning facilities. Slaughterhouse (SWW) contains proteins, fats, high organic contents, microbes, other emerging pollutants (pharmaceutical veterinary residues). It is important first characterize so that adequate treatment techn...

The composition of challenging matrices must be fully understood in order to determine the impact matrix and establish suitable treatment methods. Rendering condensate wastewater is a complex which understudied. It produced when vapour from rendering facilities (heat processing slaughterhouse waste material) cooled as liquid for discharge. This study offers full physicochemical characterisation...

BACKGROUND Targeted sampling can capture the characteristics of more vulnerable sectors of a population, but may bias the picture of population level disease risk. When sampling network data, an incomplete description of the population may arise leading to biased estimates of between-host connectivity. Avian influenza (AI) control planning in Great Britain (GB) provides one example where networ...

Transmission of Campylobacter to humans has been prominently associated with mishandling or improperly preparing contaminated poultry carcasses. The number of organisms per carcass represents an important measure of human exposure to the agent. Therefore, we wished to estimate this public exposure over 1 yr among Italian broiler carcasses. We sampled 213 broiler carcasses from rinse water sampl...

Lake Allatoona, a large reservoir north of Atlanta Georgia that drains an area of about 2870 km, is threatened by excessive algal growth and scheduled for a phosphorus (P) TMDL. In this paper, we use the Soil Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) computer model to estimate the total P load to Lake Allatoona during the periods 1992-1996 and 2001-2004. We also use the model to estimate the contribution fr...