Chapter 2 - ‘Priority Pollutants’ and Chemicals of Emerging Concern

Selecting sentinel organic chemical pollutants

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With limited time, money, personnel, and laboratory resources there’s no way we could study all, or even a major portion of the vast number of organic chemical pollutants that impact our water sources. So, using the pesticide and herbicide chemical subclass as an example to demonstrate the process, we established criteria for se…