THERMO Scientific I Determination of water pollutants using photometric analysis

Clean water in sufficient amounts is an ongoing global challenge. Water resources are experiencing increasing pressure in many parts of the world, requiring countries to improve the management and protection of water ecosystems. In 2000, the European Union’s (EU) Water Framework Directive (WFD) announced an integrated approach to protecting water quality, quantity, and the role of habitat. As a result, governmental bodies of different EU member states are required to work with one another to ensure that the requirements of the directive are met and water quality is maintained. Quality criteria include nutritional composition as well as chemical composition, i.e. the level of pollutants.
The International Organization of Standardization (ISO) develops standards to benefit state authorities, regulatory bodies, and industry for the purpose of equitably and durably managing shared water resources. As a network composed of 163 countries, ISO published more than 19,500 international standards covering almost every industry from technology and food safety to agriculture and healthcare. More than 550 standards currently exist to address water issues and these quality standards provide a common language for water sampling, reporting, and monitoring in order to ensure purity and other desired characteristics that apply to industrial processes as well as natural water.
The goal of this study is to demonstrate compliance with the ISO 15923-1 standard for the determination of water pollutants using an automated photometric procedure.

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