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European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction. (2015) Perspectives on drugs: Wastewater analysis and drugs — a European multi-city study. Lisbon: European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction.

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In 2010, a Europe-wide network (Sewage Analysis CORE Group — Europe) was established to standardise the approach to wastewater analysis and to coordinate national studies. Following the success of an initial study in 19 European cities in 2011 (Thomas et al., 2012), comparable  studies were undertaken over the following three years  covering up to 21 European countries. A standard protocol  and a common quality control exercise were used in all locations, which made it possible to directly compare illicit drug loads in Europe over a one-week period during four consecutive years.

[please note this guideline has been updated https://www.drugsandalcohol.ie/27397/ ]

Item Type
Report
Publication Type
International, Guideline
Drug Type
All substances
Intervention Type
General / Comprehensive, Screening / Assessment
Source
Date
June 2015
Pages
5 p.
Publisher
European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction
Corporate Creators
European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction
Place of Publication
Lisbon
EndNote
Accession Number
HRB (Electronic Only)

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