Biosolids program could be a sick practice
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This involves, in the case of Sydney Water, 180,000 tonnes a year of partially treated human sewerage waste being packaged up as fertiliser and spread on farmlands and sporting fields.
One view is that it is a rational form of recycling.
The problem is that the program has never been independently reviewed for its potential public health implications.
This issue came to my attention late last year when I noticed a large number of patients who were complaining of a variety of symptoms including fatigue, erratic bowel function, nausea and bloating.
Some just felt off colour and went on a search for a second opinion to find out what was wrong with them. Many had been previously diagnosed with “irritable bowel syndrome”, that too-hard-basket of undiagnosed guts. Of course their bowels were irritable, many of them, we discovered, were infected with one or several parasites.
http://m.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/human-poo-on-our-farms-is-a-sick-practice/story-e6frezz0-1226051694709
http://www.news-medical.net/news/20110508/Parasites-in-human-waste-fertilizers-alarm-health-experts.aspx
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