Report: Tests of ballast water treatment systems are flawed

Wednesday, January 14, 2015 - 18:20 in Health & Medicine

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) -- Government-sanctioned tests of equipment designed to cleanse ship ballast water of invasive species are seriously flawed because they don't determine whether the systems will remove microbes that cause gastrointestinal illnesses, scientists said Wednesday....

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