The Health Ministry from ..wants to know if the product used in water treatment is harmless to health. Does CEPIS make evaluations for such products?
Products used during the potabilization processes may react on water itself or on the health of people using that drinking water. All of this requires four types of evaluations. At first, there is a physical-chemical evaluation in which the product is tested for physical and chemical specifications that the manufacturer claims to be true. For example, if such solution with such concentration can lower the turbidity in such units, or that a compound alkalinizes adequately water of low pH, or reducing the concentration of a specific metal to a determined level. Among these evaluations are some about quality products, others that show certified concentrations shown on their labels, or that the products do not contain trace elements considered dangerous to health (for example, lead or mercury free). A second kind of evaluation is about its behavior as an agent in biological (or microbiological) contaminations. This means, for example, verifying the bactericide power of the product that the
