Re: Water Irradiation?

[Gary and Kris Troyer <kandg@urx.com>]

At the same time, US municipalities are specifically exempted from concern 

about formaldehyde in drinking water at levels above safe drinking water 

standard generated by municipal chlorination .  Industry output must comply 

to better than municipal input.  gltroyer  kandg@urx.com



At 10:13 PM 7/5/2002 -0400, Muckerheide wrote:

>on 7/6/02 3:45 AM, Franz Schoenhofer at franz.schoenhofer@CHELLO.AT wrote:

>

> > Treatment of water by gamma-radiation has been proposed in the case of a

> > water supply south of Vienna, where the water was contaminated by

> > chlorinated hydrocarbons. The meaning was, that the chlorinated 

> hydrocarbons

> > should have been transferred by gamma-rays to HCl  and CO2, thus 

> eliminating

> > them from the drinking water. This application was not permitted, because

> > according to Austrian law the treatment of food (and drinking water is by

> > definition "food") with ionizing radiation has to be authorized. And it was

> > not.



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