Waste management in Europe has improved recent years, reducing the amount of waste disposed at landfills. However, there are still many landfills countries. It is well known that do not have measures place to control leachate entering groundwater can contaminate long after landfill closed. Collecting monitoring results from all allows permitting and agencies improve action plans. This relies on...

Scatterometer Contamination Mitigation

The results of the Global Environment Monitoring System/Food Contamination Monitoring and Assessment Programme (GEMS/Food) and other monitoring programmes for priority contaminants in the diet, including lead, cadmium, mercury, polychlorinated biphenyls, organochlorine and organophosphorus pesticide residues and aflatoxin, are presented. These results are assessed with respect to established ac...

The science-based assessment of foodborne zoonotic risk is used to evaluate the public health impact of a hazard and to guide public decision-making on control measures. Key information for the hazard characterisation and microbiological contamination assessment phases of risk assessment may be obtained from the collection and structured statistical analysis of international data. This approach...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to propose a new classification system for open fractures developed by the Classification Committee of the Orthopaedic Trauma Association. SETTING Academic and Level I trauma center. PATIENTS/PARTICIPANTS Consecutive patients with open fractures. MAIN OUTCOME MEASUREMENTS Open fracture classification scale. RESULTS Evaluation of 34 factors identi...

Inherently, confined animal farming operations (CAFOs) and other intense fecal-rich environments are potential sources of groundwater contamination by enteric pathogens. The ubiquity of microbial matter poses unique technical challenges in addition to economic constraints when sampling wells in such environments. In this paper, we evaluate a groundwater sampling protocol that relies on extended...

The microbiological quality of 75 private drinking water supply boreholes in Co. Cork, Ireland was assessed in order to determine the incidence of contamination and the potential pathways of such contamination. Microbiological analysis was carried out using the membrane filtration technique for the recovery of thermotolerant (faecal) coliforms. The sanitary protection of the supplies was evalua...

BACKGROUND This study examines the microbial and fungal contamination associated with the presence of renovation works in a hospital site in Sardinia (Italy). METHODS Microbiological environmental monitoring was carried out before, during and at the conclusion of the works in the Ophthalmology Department in view of a risk assessment procedure. RESULTS Although the median values of microbial...