TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2018//
TI  - Chinese cities scan sewers for signs of illegal drug use: privacy concerns and cultural differences could limit the technique's use in other nations
JO  - Nature
A1  - Cyranoski, David
SP  - 310
EP  - 311
VL  - 559
IS  - 
N2  - Dozens of cities across China are applying an unusual forensic technique to monitor illegal drug use: chemically analysing sewage for traces of drugs, or their telltale metabolites, excreted in urine.    One southern city, Zhongshan, a drug hotspot, is also monitoring waste water to evaluate the effectiveness of its drug-reduction programmes, says Li Xiqing, an environmental chemist at Peking University in Beijing who is working with police in these cities ...
LA  - en
SN  - 0028-0836
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -