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The hunt for PFAS turns to Michigan farms using human waste as fertilizer
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19 Jun 2019 | MLive
The hunt for PFAS in Michigan is turning to farm fields, where concerns are growing about possible contamination in treated human waste used as fertilizer. This month, scientists are analyzing test results from more than a dozen state agricultural sites that received the the fertilizer from wastewater treatment plants that were flagged in 2018 for high concentrations of the chemicals flowing into their systems from industrial sources or landfills...
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Maine dairy farm plagued by chemical contaminants may be ‘tip of the toxic iceberg’
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26 Mar 2019 | York County Coast Star
More than two years after learning drinking water and milk tanks on his 100-year-old Stoneridge Farm were contaminated with a class of chemicals linked to cancer and other health concerns, farmer Fred Stone still can’t sell his milk and is losing hundreds of dollars a day, every day.…