Human Waste Safe for Growing Vegetables, Researchers Say
"In general, the risk for human health of pharmaceutical compounds entering the food system by means of fecal compost use, seems low."
Not kidding, apparently. A person would have to eat nothing but cabbage for most of a lifetime before experiencing ill effects from "pharmaceutical compounds," this article claims.
Maybe the scientists need to be a little less menacing in their language.
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