Health Stream New Items - Issue 56 - December 2009

Australian Drinking Water Guidelines Revision
The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) in collaboration with the Natural Resource Management Ministerial Council (NRMMC), has issued several documents for public comment:

• draft revisions to Chapters 6, 9 and 10 of the Australian Drinking Water Guidelines (ADWG).
• a large number of new Fact Sheets and revised versions of existing Fact Sheets from the ADWG.
• a discussion paper on Health Based Targets For Microbial Safety Of Drinking Water. This paper canvasses the inclusion of quantitative definitions of microbial safety in the ADWG in an analogous fashion to the approach already adopted in the Australian Guidelines for Water Recycling (2006).

These documents can be obtained from the NHMRC web site: http://www.nhmrc.gov.au/guidelines/ consult/consultations/draft_adwg_guidelines.htm
Public submissions close on 15 January 2010.

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