Neither novel nor interesting report. Fkint seems to be the repository of many things unscientific. Everybody who understands water appreciates that heterotrophic bacteria grow on water filters that remove chlorine residuals. WHO addressed this in detail about 10 years ago in: Heterotrophic Plate Counts and Drinking -water Safety, and concluded that they were not pathogenic. What the researchers do not seem to understand is that heterotrophs also grow in bottled water. They grow whenever the disinfectant residual is lost.
Published by Joseph Cotruvo, President at Joseph Cotruvo & Associates, Water , Environment and Public Health
Neither novel nor interesting report. Fkint seems to be the repository of many things unscientific. Everybody who understands water appreciates that heterotrophic bacteria grow on water filters that remove chlorine residuals. WHO addressed this in detail about 10 years ago in: Heterotrophic Plate Counts and Drinking -water Safety, and concluded that they were not pathogenic. What the researchers do not seem to understand is that heterotrophs also grow in bottled water. They grow whenever the disinfectant residual is lost.