Assessment of Decontamination and Reuse of Disposable Filter Funnels Used in Microbiological Water Quality Tests.

ABSTRACT: To monitor safely managed drinking water services, an increasing number of countries have integrated water quality testing for Escherichia coli into nationally-representative household surveys such as the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS). However, plastic waste generated during such water quality testing programs, mostly through the use of pre-sterilized disposable materials, is non-negligible. The objective of this study was to evaluate several re-use protocols for disposable filter funnels used by the MICS water quality test kits. Decontamination and re-use protocols were assessed in centralized laboratory and decentralized field settings and neither yielded positive results. Re-use of 100 mL sterile funnels decontaminated with an alcohol wipe resulted in a higher inciden

SUBMITTER: Zimmer C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8165830 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature