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Facilities Encouraged to Test for Legionella spp.

 Very little regulation in the US (more in the EU/UK)  Various standards/guidance documents recommend having a Water Management Program (WMP). • Utilizes HACCP principles to identify critical control points, and risk mitigation measures • Say that measures should be “validated”, but typically stop short of saying how that is to be accomplished · Virtually everyone agrees, testing for Legionella spp. is the only way to properly validate