Health risks derived from consumption of lettuces irrigated with tertiary effluent containing norovirus

Food Research International

Volumn 68, Issue , 2015, Pages 70-77

  Sales Ortells, Helena ^a,b   Fernandez Cassi, Xavier ^c   Timoneda, Natàlia ^c   Dürig, Wiebke ^a   Girones, Rosina ^c   Medema, Gertjan ^a,b  

^a KWR WATERCYCLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Crop irrigation; Health risks; Norovirus; Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment; Water reclamation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CROPS; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; HEALTH; IRRIGATION; REDUCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; RISKS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VIRUSES; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

CATALONIA (SPAIN); DISABILITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; NOROVIRUS; PROBABILITY OF DISEASE; QUANTITATIVE MICROBIAL RISK ASSESSMENT; QUANTITATIVE MICROBIAL RISK ASSESSMENT (QMRA); TERTIARY TREATMENT; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

HEALTH RISKS;

LACTUCA; NOROVIRUS;

EID: 85027921928     PISSN: 09639969     EISSN: 18737145     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodres.2014.08.018     Document Type: Article

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