Tag Archives: Entrainment sampling
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DNA Barcoding and Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction Techniques as Tools to Validate and Expedite Species Processing in Entrainment Samples
New U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rules require power plants with cooling water intake withdrawals of more than 125 million gallons per day to conduct studies to help identify the best technology to reduce mortality from entrainment (an effect in which early-stage organisms are pulled into cooling systems and threatened by heat, physical stress, and chemicals). […]