Fungal contaminants – a paradoxal void in safety regulation of drinking water and recreational areas

Sabino, R.; Novak Babič, M.; Gunde-Cimerman, N.; Veríssimo, C.; Viegas, C.; Várgha, M.; Meyer, W.; Brandão, J.

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Fungal contaminants – a paradoxal void in safety regulation of drinking water and recreational areas

2017-10Conference object

dc.contributor.author	Sabino, R.
dc.contributor.author	Novak Babič, M.
dc.contributor.author	Gunde-Cimerman, N.
dc.contributor.author	Veríssimo, C.
dc.contributor.author	Viegas, C.
dc.contributor.author	Várgha, M.
dc.contributor.author	Meyer, W.
dc.contributor.author	Brandão, J.
dc.date.accessioned	2018-02-01T11:50:26Z
dc.date.available	2018-02-01T11:50:26Z
dc.date.issued	2017-10
dc.description	Poster abstract publicado em: Mycoses. 2017;60(Suppl. S2):130-1. Disponível em:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/myc.12674/epdf	pt_PT
dc.description.abstract	Although exposure to fungi and their metabolites, by inhalation, contact and ingestion has often been addressed, it rarely made way into safety regulation. The EU drinking water directive 98/83/EC and the national legislation in the European countries - with very few exceptions - fails to address fungi explicitly. The same is valid also for European regulatory Directive 2006/7/EC, currently undergoing its second revision with no plan to introduce fungi, yet again. Both Directives address microbiological safety of drinking and bathing / recreational waters by monitoring of bacterial parameters indicating faecal contamination, and correlating with gastro-intestinal illness but leaving behind other microbes and several emerging pathogens and other pathologies. This study assesses the European drinking and bathing water regulations and sand; it evaluates background information, and underpinning missing fungal parameters that (may) affect human health.	pt_PT
dc.description.sponsorship	The work of Wieland Meyer was supported by the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (NH&MRC) grants APP1031952 and APP1121936.	pt_PT
dc.description.version	info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion	pt_PT
dc.identifier.doi	10.1111/myc.12675	pt_PT
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10400.18/4892
dc.language.iso	eng	pt_PT
dc.peerreviewed	yes	pt_PT
dc.subject	Fungi	pt_PT
dc.subject	Drinking Water	pt_PT
dc.subject	Agentes Microbianos e Ambiente	pt_PT
dc.title	Fungal contaminants – a paradoxal void in safety regulation of drinking water and recreational areas	pt_PT
dc.type	conference object
dspace.entity.type	Publication
oaire.citation.conferencePlace	Belgrado, Sérvia	pt_PT
oaire.citation.title	8th Trends in Medical Mycology, EORTC-IDG/ECMM, 6-9 October 2017	pt_PT
rcaap.rights	openAccess	pt_PT
rcaap.type	conferenceObject	pt_PT