Posts Tagged 'Chemists'

A team of chemists in western U.S. states has identified a new marker of water that’s been tainted by human wastes: the artificial sweetener sucralose.

In a paper posted online August 31 in Environmental Science & Technology,the researchers report finding sucralose in the water entering 15 of 19 drinking water treatment plants that they studied — and coming out in the finished water from 13 of 17 such plants.

Sucralose was also detected in tap water samples downstream of eight of 12 ...