Canadian recreational water quality guidelines - Indicators of fecal contamination: Development of updated guidelines

Canadian recreational water quality guidelines - Indicators of fecal contamination: Development of updated guidelines is an open dataset from Health Canada with 2 files (HTML); catalogue record updated 2024-06-24. On CanQuery you can follow the original downloads. Files are available in English and French.

Several significant changes have been included in the current fecal indicator guidelines. This includes moving away from using GM and SSM's to using BAVs for day-to-day beach management (based on data from the most recent epidemiological studies), recommending PCR-based monitoring methods in addition to culture-based methods and encouraging the use of MST and the development of alternative criteria (where appropriate).

Publisher

Health Canada

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2

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2024-06-24