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Monitoring the environment for a large list of organic compounds present at low levels is costly. The primary purpose of such monitoring is to assure that hazardous levels of such compounds are not released into, or present in, the environment. Viewing this as a quality control problem, we suggest that samples from different sources can be composited using group testing procedures prior to analysis. Our purpose is to describe the basic concepts and suggest problems requiring study.
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Schaeffer, D., Kerster, H.W. & Janardan, K.G. Monitoring toxics by group testing. Environmental Management 6, 467–469 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01868375
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01868375