Issue 25
The Public Health Newsletter of the CRC for Water Quality and Treatment
March 2002
In this Issue:

First Report of the Walkerton Inquiry
Camelford Incident Reviewed
Update on Battleford Outbreak
Book Review
     Nitrate and Man: toxic, harmless or beneficial?
News Items

From the Literature
    Arsenic
    Bottled Water
    Cyanobacteria
    Exposure Assessment
    Indicator Organisms and Viruses
    Outbreak Investigation
    Protozoa
    Reproductive Effects
    Risk Assessment
    Uranium
    Viruses
    Waterborne Disease
    Water Disinfection

Additional Articles

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From the Literature

Arsenic

Chronic arsenic toxicity in Bangladesh and West Bengal, India - A review and commentary. Rahman MM, Chowdhury UK, Mukherjee SC, et al. Journal of Toxicology - Clinical Toxicology (2001) 39(7) p683-700.

Analyses of micronuclei in exfoliated epithelial cells from individuals chronically exposed to arsenic via drinking water in Inner Mongolia, China. Tian DF, Ma HZ, Feng ZM, et al. Journal of Toxicology & Environmental Health 2001;Part A. 64(6) p473-484.

Bottled Water

Fungal spoilage of bottled mineral water. Cabral DFP. International Journal of Food Microbiology (2002) 72(1-2) p 73-6.

Cyanobacteria

Preliminary evidence of toxicity associated with the benthic cyanobacterium Phormidium in South Australia. Baker PD, Steffensen DA, Humpage AR, et al. Environmental Toxicology (2001) 16(6 Special Issue SI) p506-511.

Exposure Assessment

Inter- and intra-ethnic variation in water intake, contact, and source estimates among Tucson residents: Implications for exposure analysis. Williams BL, Florez Y , Pettygrove S. Journal of Exposure Analysis & Environmental Epidemiology (2001) 11(6) p510-521.

Indicator Organisms and Viruses

Persistence of viral pathogens and bacteriophages during sewage treatment: lack of correlation with indicator bacteria. Baggi F, Demarta A , Peduzzi R. Res Microbiol (2001) 152(8) p743-51.

Outbreak Investigation

Possible information bias in a waterborne outbreak investigation. Craun GF, Frost FJ. International Journal of Environmental Health Research (2002) 12(1) p5-15.

Protozoa

Application of monitoring data for Giardia and Cryptosporidium to boil water advisories. Wallis PM, Matson D, Jones M, Jamieson J. Risk Analysis (2001) 21(6) p 1077-1085.

Reproductive Effects

Tetrachloroethylene in drinking water and birth outcomes at the US marine corps base at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Sonnenfeld N, Hertz-Picciotto I , Kaye WE. American Journal of Epidemiology (2001) 154(10) p902-908.

Influence of exposure assessment methods on risk estimates in an epidemiologic study of total trihalomethane exposure and spontaneous abortion. Waller K, Swan SH, Windham SC, et al. Journal of Exposure Analysis & Environmental Epidemiology (2001) 11(6) p522-531.

Risk Assessment

Microbial Risks from Wastewater Irrigation of Salad Crops: A Screening-level Risk Assessment. Petterson SR, Ashbolt NJ , Sharma A. Water Environ Res (2001) 72(6) p667-72.

Uranium

Renal Effects of Uranium in Drinking Water. Kurttio P, Auvinen A, Salonen L, Saha H, Pekkanen J, Makelainen I, Vaisanen SB, Penttila IM, Komulainen H. Environ Health Perspect (2002) 110(4) p337-42.

Viruses

Detection of infectious enteroviruses and adenoviruses in tap water in urban areas in Korea. Lee SH , Kim SJ. Water Research (2002) 36(1) p248-256.

Waterborne Disease

Participant Blinding and Gastrointestinal Illness in a Randomized Controlled Trial of a In-Home Drinking Water Intervention. Colford JM, Rees JR, Wade T, et al. Emerg Infect Dis (2002) 8(1) p29-36.

Water Disinfection

Water disinfection for international and wilderness travelers. Backer H. Clinical Infectious Diseases (2002) 34(3) p355-364.


Additional Articles

A case report of false negative Legionella test results in a chlorinated public hot water distribution system due to the lack of sodium thiosulfate in sampling bottles.
Wiedenmann A, Langhammer W, Botzenhart K. International Journal of Hygiene & Environmental Health (2001) 204(4) p245-9.

Risk factors for waterborne enteric infections.
Balbus JM , Embrey MA. Current Opinion in Gastroenterology (2002) 18(1) p46-50.

Waterborne health risks and the WHO perspective.
Younes M, Bartram J. International Journal of Hygiene & Environmental Health (2001) 204(4) p255-63.

Partition coefficients for the trihalomethanes among blood, urine, water, milk and air.
Batterman, S., Zhang, L., Wang, S. and Franzblau, A. Sci Total Environ (2002) 284(1-3) p237-47.

Human Pharmaceuticals in the Aquatic Environment a Review.
Jones, O.A.H., Voulvoulis, N. and Lester, J.N. Environ Toxicol (2001) 22(12) p1383-94.

Enteroviruses detected by reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction from the coastal waters of Santa Monica Bay, California: low correlation to bacterial indicator levels.
Noble, R.T. and Fuhrman, J.A. Hydrobiologia (2001) 460 p175-84.

Sources, Pathways and Relative Risks of Contaminants in Surface water and Groundwater: A Perspective Prepared for the Walkerton Inquiry.
Ritter, L., Solomon, K., Sibley, P., Hall, K., Keen, P., Mattu, G. and Linton, B. J Toxicol Environ Health - Part A, (2002) 65(1) p1-142.