<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div class="cd_quote_container"><blockquote cite=""><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><a href="http://www.bioscienceresource.org/">The Bioscience Resource Project</a></font></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"> has just added a new resource page: </font></font><strong><a title="Link to BSRs resource page: Sewage Sludge (Biosolids) — land application, health risks, and regulation" href="http://www.bioscienceresource.org/sewage-sludge-biosolids-land-application-health-risks-and-regulation-2/"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Sewage Sludge (Biosolids) — land application, health risks, and regulatory failure.</font></font></a></strong></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Sewage sludge contains highly variable mixtures of household and industrial pollutants, as well as pathogens, radioactive materials and pharmaceuticals. Despite its documented harmful impacts, the U.S. EPA and others
vigorously promote land application of sewage sludge — to farmers and
ranchers as a fertilizer and to </font></span></font><a title="Link to Sourcewatch webpage explaining consumer sludge give-aways and commercial sludge "organic' fertilizer brands" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Sewage_sludge_giveaways,_producers,_and_brands"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">households</font></span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"> as organic compost. This endangers the short term and long term health of
the public, as well as the environment. The Bioscience Resource Project has created a new resource page that summarizes and links to scientific papers that provide an overview of the current health, environmental, and political issues around land application of sludge. Included on the page are suggestions for reformulating the problem to ensure clean water without toxic sludge production. </font></span></font></div><p><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">To access the new page see: </font></span></font><strong><a title="Link to BSRs resource page: Sewage Sludge (Biosolids) — land application, health risks, and regulation" href="http://www.bioscienceresource.org/sewage-sludge-biosolids-land-application-health-risks-and-regulation-2/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Sewage Sludge (Biosolids) — land application, health risks, and regulatory failure</font></span></font></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">. 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