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 ...
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