2nd German VERA test protocol published: ‘Covers’

21 September 2018

Following the publication of the VERA test protocol for Slurry separation Technologies, we are happy to announce that the second VERA test protocol is available in German:

For the convenience of our German stakeholders, the VERA test protocol for ‘Covers and other Mitigation Technologies Reduction of Gaseous Emissions from Stored Manure – Version 3:2018-07’ can be downloaded from our sub-page ‘test protocols’ (as for the English versions).

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