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The Envirochek® HV Capsule: Recovering Cryptosporidium from High Volume Source and Finished Drinking Water Samples

21 Oct 2014

This application note describes Envirochek capsules for collection and recovery of Cryptosporidium oocysts and Giardia cysts in both finished and source water, including surface water, municipal water supplies, samples in containers, or wells. The Envirochek HV capsule achieves high and reproducible recoveries of cysts and oocysts from 50 L source water samples and has been validated using the PBMS criteria demonstrating that it meets the performance criteria for Method 1623.

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