Emerging environmental health risks associated with the land application of biosolids: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Over 40% of the six million dry metric tons of sewage sludge, often referred to as biosolids, produced annually in the United States is land applied. Biosolids serve as a sink for emerging pollutants which can be toxic and persist in the environment, yet their fate after land application and their impacts on human health have not been well studied. These gaps in our understanding are exacerbated by the absence of systematic monitoring programs and defined standards for human health protection.

Methods

The purpose of this paper is to call critical attention to the knowledge gaps that currently exist regarding emerging pollutants in biosolids and to underscore the need for evidence-based testing standards and regulatory frameworks for human health protection when bi

SUBMITTER: Pozzebon EA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10440945 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature