“…MX, (3-chloro-4-dichloromethyl)-5-hydroxy-2(5H)-furanone), was first identified by a Finnish group in kraft pulp mill effluents of a paper factory containing high concentration of non volatile organic matter and high free chlorine derived from the whitening process (Holmbom et al, 1981). Later, MX was identified as a DBP in drinking water (Hemming et al, 1986) and since then in many places around the world (Padmapriya et al, 1985;Kronberg et al, 1988a,b;Suzuki and Nakamishi et al, 1990;Ogawa et al, 1993;Romero et al, 1997) et al, 1988a), oxidized and reduced MX (Kronberg et al, 1988b) and brominated derivatives (BMXs) have also been identified (Suzuki and Nakamishi et al, 1990;Weinberg et al, 2002).…”