Disinfection by products in drinking water. New detector may meet need for monitoring and detection of broader range of DBP classes, Sweden
This article highlights the issue of the presence of disinfection by -products (DBPs) in drinking water as an emerging health concern.
DBPs come in many classes and are chemically diverse, making them challenging to monitor. Swedish researchers have evaluated a new method for the simultaneous determination of a broader range of DBPs than typically possible using current available techniques. The method uses gas chromatography (a laboratory technique that separates and analyses vaporisable compounds in a mixture), together with a halogen specific detector (XSD). Having been tested in real water samples from two municipal waterworks in Sweden, the method has been optimised for the simultaneous determination of a wide range of neutral DBPs.