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n This article, titled ‘Is there a devil in the detail? How risks associated with lead and opportunistic plumbing premise pathogens stack up for the health sector’, was originally published in the March 2022 issue of Healthcare Facilities, the official journal of the Institute of Healthcare Engineering, Australia. HEJ thanks the author, the IHEA, and the magazine’s publisher, Adbourne Publishing, for allowing its reproduction here in slightly edited form.


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