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DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2014.12.031
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84922241316
论文题名:
Failure of the public health testing program for ballast water treatment systems
作者: Cohen A.N.; Dobbs F.C.
刊名: Marine Pollution Bulletin
ISSN: 0025-326X
EISSN: 1879-3363
出版年: 2015
卷: 91, 期:1
起始页码: 29
结束页码: 34
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Ballast water ; Microbes ; Public health ; Ships ; Vibrio cholerae ; Water treatment
Scopus关键词: Bacteria ; Health ; Microorganisms ; Public health ; Ships ; Software testing ; Standards ; Water ; Ballast water ; Ballast water treatment system ; Certification programs ; Certification tests ; Microbes ; Minimum requirements ; Treatment systems ; Vibrio cholerae ; Water treatment ; bacterium ; ballast water ; pathogen ; public health ; water quality ; water treatment ; Article ; clinical protocol ; concentration (parameters) ; Escherichia coli ; health program ; infection control ; infection prevention ; limit of detection ; program effectiveness ; program evaluation ; public health ; treatment failure ; United States ; Vibrio cholerae ; water treatment ; evaluation study ; government regulation ; human ; legislation and jurisprudence ; microbiology ; procedures ; ship ; standards ; water management ; Vibrio cholerae ; Government Regulation ; Humans ; Public Health ; Ships ; Water Microbiology ; Water Purification
Scopus学科分类: Agricultural and Biological Sciences: Aquatic Science ; Earth and Planetary Sciences: Oceanography ; Environmental Science: Pollution
英文摘要: Since 2004, an international testing program has certified 53 shipboard treatment systems as meeting ballast water discharge standards, including limits on certain microbes to prevent the spread of human pathogens. We determined how frequently certification tests failed a minimum requirement for a meaningful evaluation, that the concentration of microbes in the untreated (control) discharge must exceed the regulatory limit for treated discharges. In 95% of cases where the result was accepted as evidence that the treatment system reduced microbes to below the regulatory limit, the discharge met the limit even without treatment. This shows that the certification program for ballast water treatment systems is dysfunctional in protecting human health. In nearly all cases, the treatment systems would have equally well "passed" these tests even if they had never been turned on. Protocols must require minimum concentrations of targeted microbes in test waters, reflecting the upper range of concentrations in waters where ships operate. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd.
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/86297
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作者单位: Center for Research on Aquatic Bioinvasions, 5994 McBryde Avenue, Richmond, CA, United States; Department of Ocean, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, United States

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Cohen A.N.,Dobbs F.C.. Failure of the public health testing program for ballast water treatment systems[J]. Marine Pollution Bulletin,2015-01-01,91(1)
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