Nature (London), 2008-05, Vol.453 (7193), p.262-263
2008
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- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- Raking through sludge exposes a stink
- Ist Teil von
- Nature (London), 2008-05, Vol.453 (7193), p.262-263
- Ort / Verlag
- England: Nature Publishing Group
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2008
- Quelle
- EBSCOhost Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- The lawsuit alleges that the researchers concealed their own evidence that sewage sludge applications contaminated land and probably contributed to cattle deaths on two dairy farms in Georgia, according to recently unsealed court documents. Court ruling In February, a district court in Augusta, Georgia, ruled in favour of the McElmurray family, which had sued the Department of Agriculture for farm subsidies on land they could not plant because of various contaminants from sludge, including cadmium, molybdenum, arsenic and thallium.
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISSN: 0028-0836eISSN: 1476-4687DOI: 10.1038/453262aTitel-ID: cdi_proquest_journals_204472800
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- Agriculture, Agriculture - ethics, Animals, Cattle, Chemicals, Dairying, Environmental aspects, Environmental Monitoring, Fertilizers, Fertilizers - adverse effects, Fertilizers - toxicity, Fraud, Health aspects, Humans, Industrial wastes, Lewis, David, Litigation, Sewage - adverse effects, Sewage - analysis, Sludge, Staphylococcus infections, United States, United States Environmental Protection Agency - ethics, Waste disposal