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Lab testing Missouri water for Cryptosporidium The Hygienic Laboratory was awarded a six-year contract from the Missouri Department of Natural Resources to test for the presence of Cryptosporidium (crypto) in surface water. Source water monitoring for the large Missouri public water supplies began in April in accordance with the Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule (LT2). The goal of this regulation is to reduce disease associated with crypto and other disease-causing microorganisms in drinking water.
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Study uses buoy to collect water quality data Iowa Lakeside Laboratory Regents Resource Center began a new study in May to collect environmental data using a hydrological buoy on West Lake Okoboji. The goal of the study is to gather data that would help improve water quality in the lake.
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National expert draws laboratorians from seven states Imagine meeting the person who not only wrote your college parasitology textbook, but wrote the last five editions spanning 25 years. Your professor referred to it as the “Garcia book,” rather than by its name: Diagnostic Medical Parasitology. And now Lynne Garcia is in the Center for the Advancement of Laboratory Science at the State Hygienic Laboratory updating you on parasitology.
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Photo Feature: Sibling Revelry Forget the rivalry between brothers and sisters, and look for understanding between siblings. That understanding is part of a new children’s book recently unveiled at Wartburg College.
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