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COMBINATION WATER PURIFICATION METHODS are emerging as successful strategies, such as bio and ozone or RO, or bio and activated carbon. Ultimately, these combo methods may have the best features. But avoid the chemical nonsense. And enable innovators to avoid the monopoly stranglehold of the water providers and give personal choices. View in LinkedIn

G2B Pharma deal with Sosei, a Japanese VC, for nasal epinephrine. http://lnkd.in/dqMh8YG View in LinkedIn

BIOLOGICAL OPTIMISM. "Overall, biological drinking water treatment is highly efficient and environmentally sustainable. As green water treatment philosophies gain traction and as regulatory and residuals-handling constraints continue to tighten, the use of biological drinking water treatment technologies and processes will likely continue to expand around the globe." http://lnkd.in/deicbtk View in LinkedIn

PHAGEBIOTICS will require a total rethink from drug regulatory agencies, whose modes operandi was set up in 1906 around single molecule drugs, not organisms. But recent approvals of limited number of phages for food purification offer a glimmer of hope. One challenge is their ability to evolve as their pathogen prey evolves. View in LinkedIn

BIOLOGICAL TREATMENT ADVANTAGES. "The results showed that biological treatment, avoiding break-point chlorination, limits by-product formation and associated mutagenic generation. It follows that, in this respect, biological processes seem to have significant advantages over conventional water treatments." http://lnkd.in/dTwK7mW View in LinkedIn

BIOLOGICAL DRINKING WATER TREATMENT, in combination with ozonation and filtration to remove DBPs, chlorate, nitrates, etc: a survey of US stakeholders showed it is poorly understood, despite "being used in numerous locations in the US and Europe." Sponsored by DOD interested in perchlorate removal. http://lnkd.in/dSzVcV4 View in LinkedIn

BIOLOGICAL WATER FILTRATION. "Biological treatment can be used to remove natural organic matter, color, chloroform, perchlorate, nitrate, nitrite, bromate, iron, manganese, selenate, chromate, arsenate (etc) .... It eliminates the need for chemical oxidation ... the need for chemical reduction methods, and produces innocuous end-products." http://lnkd.in/dVpFXFn View in LinkedIn

IBROM WATER TREATMENT: Integrated Biological Reverse Osmosis Membrane drinking water treatment process "system utilizes naturally occurring bacteria, in a controlled environment, to remove the contaminants from the treated water ... then goes through a Reverse Osmosis membrane and then slight amounts of chlorine are added." http://lnkd.in/dkJXmPF View in LinkedIn

NO DBP PRECURSORS. “In conventional treatment systems there is a constant battle between disinfection and disinfection byproducts (DBPs) ... With biological treatment there are minimal to no chemical additions required, so you remove disinfection byproduct precursors.” A definite step in the right direction. http://lnkd.in/dVpFXFn View in LinkedIn

BEWARE of the fact that there are innumerable combinations and methods of water purification are in use today, so generalizing about a system without being specific can be very inaccurate. For example, Peterson's promising biological system also still uses chlorine. View in LinkedIn