- Hello, Jeff: Hep A entering our food chain via human
fertilizer sludge could explain why the CDC and health authorities are
having such a hard time locating the origin of the Pa. outbreak. Also explains
the three different strains.
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- Patty
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- From Astraea Kelly
wingsong@earthlink.net
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- There is an large onion grower that services the Georgia,
Tennessee and PA areas where the Hepatitis A strains have broken out. That
grower doesn't produce the onions for market at this time of year but rather
captures the Southern Produce Onion markets in early spring and April.
At this time of year onions are imported from moist climates, with Mexico
and South America as our import areas, along with California and Southeastern
Texas for green onions.
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- However, because three different strains of Hepatitis
A were found in all three states, CDC believes it is either multiple growers
or a contamination of some element that would have multiple Hepatitis A
strains in it (such as a contaminated water source). This is why they are
seriously looking for a sewage line break in the fields. It may not be
that simple. We are now "recycling" human wastes into our fertilizers,
called "sludge fertilizers". For some reason, while we are increasing
in infectious diseases that are transmitted through human and possibly
animal fecal materials.........we are now recycling human wastes on our
food supplies. Washington state and Michigan are big producers of this
"recycled sludge fertilizer." Is that brilliant or what?
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- From Astraea Kelly
11-19-3
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- FYI: Human Fertilizer was used in Tennessee and Georgia
(Hep A outbreaks). California is the listed LARGEST user of sludge fertilizers.
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- This human sewage problem might be fairly extensive.
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- The EPA since November 2000 and again on Oct 17, 2003
relaxed it's standards for identifying or processing "waste sludge"
as fertilizer. There have been some environmentalist protest articles written
on this relaxed monitoring stand, as the sludge recycling fertilizer companies
are allowed to use dioxins in the fertilizer. Agent Orange, of course,
is the most famous dioxin pesticide known for it's use in defoliating Viet
Nam and it's liver, kidney and neurological problems reported by veterans.
However, the sewage plants are recycling human sewage and processing it
into these "sludge" fertilizers. Cornell University has written
articles of concern by Ellen Harrison on the pathogens that are surviving
in especially wet and moist soils from these "bio solids" of
human wastes. Along with heavy metals, millions of pathogens, bacteria
and parasites are in human sewage.
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- The paper written by Ellen Harrison is called "The
Case For Caution" which criticizes the EPA on their allowing the testing
requirements of this sludge safety to be solely in the hands of the processing
producers of "sludge fertilizers". In other words, we have no
uniform standards of safety.
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- It is whatever the sludge fertilizer production manufacturer
says is safe. There are no requirements to list any of the compounds or
ingredients used to make this "sludge" fertilizer. The farmers
have no way of knowing what they are putting on their fields and there
is no monitoring if the fertilizer is being used in areas where livestock
are kept. This is an interesting problem with did the coronavirus jump
occur from the animals to the humans or did we give the coronavirus to
the animals via sludge fertilizers and our human wastes?
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- The government also does not require food grown in sludge
to be labeled. However, organic farmers are not allowed to use sludge fertilizers.
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- So, buy organic vegetables.
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- We may have just seen in this Hepatitis A outbreak, what
the recycling of human waste can cost us. Of course, the fertilizer run
offs do go into creeks and streams and rivers which may be then used to
re-irrigate the crops.
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- Astraea
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- Patricia A. Doyle, PhD Please visit my "Emerging
Diseases" message board at: http://www.clickitnews.com/ubbthreads/postlist.php?Cat=&Board=emergingdiseases
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