Risk assessment of parasites in Norwegian drinking water: opportunities and challenges.

ABSTRACT: Despite the relative prosperity of Scandinavian countries, contamination of the drinking water supply with parasites has occurred on various occasions in the last few decades. These events have resulted in outbreaks of disease involving several thousand cases and/or the necessity for implementation of boil-water advisories. Against this background, in 2008, and again in 2019, the Norwegian Food Safety Authority requested a risk assessment from an independent scientific body regarding parasites in Norwegian drinking water. On each occasion, it was requested that specific questions were addressed. For the first assessment, data, both of general relevance and specific for Norway, were collected from appropriate sources, as available. Based on some of this information, a quantitative probabili

SUBMITTER: Robertson LJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7930114 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature