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Water test wins award

Published on
April 23, 2004
Last updated
May 22, 2015

Birmingham University's medical school has won a Queen's Award for Enterprise for developing an innovative kit to detect chemical contamination in water. The portable battery-operated Eclox system has been used by Oxfam and the armed forces to check whether water is safe to drink.

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