WASHINGTON, D.C. (7News) — Every year, more than one million tons of sewage, sludge or biosolids are applied to U.S. farmlands.
For decades, it's been used as fertilizer to provide nutrients to the soil. But this sludge often contains PFAS, toxic "forever chemicals" that have been linked to cancer, and are now invading our food supply through the very farms that nourish us. And now, just as the United States was on the verge of action to address the risk, there is a high-level effort to stop it entirely.
