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The first article “Texas Farmers, Watchdog Group Demand EPA act on PFAS in Farm Fertilizer”
Includes the following with a linked Sierra Club white paper on retail products sold to consumers for home garden use, which contain PFAS and PFOS:
“The Sierra Club and the Ecology Center of Michigan tested nine biosolids-based fertilizers used by home gardeners, finding PFAS in all of them. When PFAS enter the environment through biosolids, the toxic chemicals leach into the soil and water and are absorbed by plants.”
The first article “Texas Farmers, Watchdog Group Demand EPA act on PFAS in Farm Fertilizer”
Includes the following with a linked Sierra Club white paper on retail products sold to consumers for home garden use, which contain PFAS and PFOS:
“The Sierra Club and the Ecology Center of Michigan tested nine biosolids-based fertilizers used by home gardeners, finding PFAS in all of them. When PFAS enter the environment through biosolids, the toxic chemicals leach into the soil and water and are absorbed by plants.”
Names products.