Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Comment from the EPA

A comment published in ES&T from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) allowed us to elaborate on safety issues related to unused medications and their disposal/removal from the household as well as clarify some of our methods in our response.

-A comment on our published paper from Dr. Christian Daughton, representing the EPA: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/es301975v

-Our response to this comment: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/es302534a

Supporting Information - data tables and spreadsheet

The supporting information for our paper can be found at the following locations (free of charge):

-The supporting information file that contains more detailed information about the published study, including data tables for the emission values of each scenario, and talks through how the spreadsheet is setup and how to use it:  http://pubs.acs.org/doi/suppl/10.1021/es203987b
-The spreadsheet that contains all of the calculations:  http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/91619