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Article: EPA Makes Final Decision on Dioxin in Sewage Sludge Used in Land Applications
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- October 17, 2003
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Today, EPA has made a final
decision not to regulate dioxins in land-applied sewage sludge. After
five years of study, including outside peer review, the Agency has
determined that dioxins from this source do not pose a significant
risk to human health or the environment. The most highly exposed
people, theoretically, are those people who apply sewage sludge as a
fertilizer to their crops and animal feed and then consume their own
crops and meat products over their entire lifetimes. EPA's analysis
shows that even for this theoretical population, only 0.003 new cases
of cancer could be expected each year or only 0.22 new cases of
cancer over a span of ...