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More than 520 chemicals found in English soil, including long-banned medical substances (www.theguardian.com)

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More than 520 chemicals have been found in English soils, including pharmaceutical products and toxins that were banned decades ago, because of the practice of spreading human waste to fertilise arable land.

Research by scientists at the University of Leeds, published as a preprint in the Journal of Hazardous Materials, found a worrying array of chemicals in English soils. Close to half (46.4%) of the pharmaceutical substances detected had not been reported in previous global monitoring campaigns.

The anticonvulsants lamotrigine and carbamazepine were among the human-use medicines reported for the first time in English soils.

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[–] PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

There was a festival that got flooded out years back, called Sunrise, and after people that had been stuck in the field started getting sick it became apparent that the farmer had been dumping human manure in the field along with other unsavoury things like chicken waste (like pulped chicken, not chicken shit). That didn’t do anyone any good at all