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I know this is serious science, but I can't help but wonder, how did these people conduct their research?

I kept thinking the toilet in a gas station, but I'm sure they did it in an isolated, purpose-built toilet in a research facility.

But shit is shit, and how did they "deploy" the object for repeatable experiments?

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It's literally the second paragraph of the article:

>A surrogate for human enteric viruses (bacteriophage MS2) was added to household and public toilet bowls and flushed. The resulting viral contamination of the toilet and other restroom surfaces was then determined.

From what I remember, they put a toilet in a clean white empty room, and flushed some ink. Then they looked how far the ink spots splattered. But don't quote me on this.