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ArticleToxins2015

Health-based cyanotoxin guideline values allow for cyanotoxin-based monitoring and efficient public health response to cyanobacterial blooms.

David Farrer, Marina Counter, Rebecca Hillwig, Curtis Cude

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Article in Toxins, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  10. Metabolomics Applied to Cyanobacterial Toxins and Natural Products.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2023
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  17. Algal Bloom Expansion Increases Cyanotoxin Risk in Food.The Yale journal of biology and medicine · 2018
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

David FarrerPublic Health Division, Oregon Health Authority, 800 NE Oregon Street, Suite 640, Portland, OR 97232, USA. david.g.farrer@state.or.us.
Marina CounterPublic Health Division, Oregon Health Authority, 800 NE Oregon Street, Suite 640, Portland, OR 97232, USA. marina.counter@state.or.us.
Rebecca HillwigPublic Health Division, Oregon Health Authority, 800 NE Oregon Street, Suite 640, Portland, OR 97232, USA. rebecca.hillwig@state.or.us.
Curtis CudePublic Health Division, Oregon Health Authority, 800 NE Oregon Street, Suite 640, Portland, OR 97232, USA. curtis.g.cude@state.or.us.

Funding

ENHANCED SURVEILLANCE OF PUBLIC HEALTH RISKS FROM HARMFUL ALGAL BLOOMS IN OREGON'U38EH000336 · EH · PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES · PI DOUGLAS, JAE P · 2008 to 2012
$730k
NCEH CDC HHS 5U38EH000336NCEH CDC HHS U38 EH000336
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Human health risks from cyanobacterial blooms are primarily related to cyanotoxins that some cyanobacteria produce. Not all species of cyanobacteria can produce toxins. Those that do often do not produce toxins at levels harmful to human health. Monitoring programs that use identification of cyanobacteria genus and species and enumeration of cyanobacterial cells as a surrogate for cyanotoxin presence can overestimate risk and lead to unnecessary health advisories. In the absence of federal criteria for cyanotoxins in recreational water, the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) developed guideline values for the four most common cyanotoxins in Oregon's fresh waters (anatoxin-a, cylindrospermopsin, microcystins, and saxitoxins). OHA developed three guideline values for each of the cyanotoxins found in Oregon. Each of the guideline values is for a specific use of cyanobacteria-affected water: drinking water, human recreational exposure and dog recreational exposure. Having cyanotoxin guidelines allows OHA to promote toxin-based monitoring (TBM) programs, which reduce the number of health advisories and focus advisories on times and places where actual, rather than potential, risks to health exist. TBM allows OHA to more efficiently protect public health while reducing burdens on local economies that depend on water recreation-related tourism.

Indexed as

CyanobacteriaAnimalsBacterial ToxinsCyanobacteria ToxinsDogsDrinking WaterEnvironmental MonitoringFresh WaterHarmful Algal BloomHumansMarine ToxinsMicrocystinsNo-Observed-Adverse-Effect LevelOregonPublic HealthRecreationBacterial ToxinsCyanobacteria ToxinsDrinking WaterMarine ToxinsMicrocystinsWater Pollutants, Chemical

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PMID25664510
PMCPMC4344635

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