San Diego County has started using new ocean water-quality testing technology intended to produce faster results and earlier warnings when bacteria reach unhealthy levels.
During a rollout of the DNA-based technology last week, county Board of Supervisors Vice Chairwoman Nora Vargas said the county plans to expand its use of the testing technology, known as droplet digital polymerase chain reaction, or ddPCR, to more than 70 miles of shoreline that the county samples and tests to help protect the public.
Officials said the DNA-based system is more sensitive to bacteria levels than the older method, which required growing bacterial cultures from water samples in petri dishes. “This is different from the culture method we would use before, where we would grow the bacteria and wait during the incubation period,” Buonomo said. “The new method gives us the information much quicker. So we can test at 6 a.m., get it back by 8 or 9 so we can have the results the same day.”
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