Sabino, R.Novak Babič, M.Gunde-Cimerman, N.Veríssimo, C.Viegas, C.Várgha, M.Meyer, W.Brandão, J.2018-02-012018-02-012017-10http://hdl.handle.net/10400.18/4892Poster abstract publicado em: Mycoses. 2017;60(Suppl. S2):130-1. Disponível em:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/myc.12674/epdfAlthough 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.engFungiDrinking WaterAgentes Microbianos e Ambienteconference object10.1111/myc.12675