Canadian recreational water quality guidelines - Indicators of fecal contamination: Development of updated guidelines (English, HTML)

Canadian recreational water quality guidelines - Indicators of fecal contamination: Development of updated guidelines: English HTML file. From Health Canada, updated Jun 2024. View metadata, licence and the direct download on CanQuery.

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2024-06-24

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).

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