New research from the University at Albany shows a difference in how plants absorb various types of forever chemicals when farms spread sewage sludge, raising red flags for unregulated chemicals that could contaminate crops like corn and lettuce.
Weilan Zhang, a professor in the Department of Environmental and Sustainable Engineering at UAlbany, is researching how land-applied biosolids can release per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) into the surrounding environment, including how crops grown in these fields can absorb these chemicals.
