poster - International Conference of Agricultural Engineering

coliforms and E-coli that might have negative effects on health if statutory thresholds were
exceeded.
Aknowledgements
The authors acknowledge the European Union (FP-VII) and the Ministry of Science and
Innovation of Spain for the financial support of this study through the projects SIRRIMED and
AGL2010-15001 (co-financed by FEDER) respectively.
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