B.C. Report on Biosolids

The Medical Officer of Health for British Columbia has commissioned a report on
Potential of Exposure to Polychlorinated Dibenzo-p-dioxins and Dibenzofurans when
Recycling Sewage Biosolids on Agricultural Land

-- by Karen Rideout, Kay Teschke, Sunil Varughese.

It is available at the following website:

http://www.soeh.ubc.ca/research/Report%202002/Biosolids.pdf

It concludes that there may be dioxin related risks to human health from the pasturing of animals on sludge spread fields or from uptake of
dioxins by some plants particularly the cucumber family.