Letter: Williamstown Agricultural Commission's position on local composting debate

Letter: Williamstown Agricultural Commission's position on local composting debate

To the editor: The Williamstown Agricultural Commission met May 7 to discuss the ramifications of spreading biosolid sludge compost laden with PFAS on agricultural lands in Williamstown and beyond.

Health concerns after PFAS-contaminated compost sold to public

The premise of the South West's FOGO system was simple — take food and garden waste from residents, turn it into compost and sell it back to them. But the discovery of PFAS contamination has brought the system to an end.

Per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in circulation in a Canadian population: their association with serum-liver enzyme biomarkers and piloting a novel method to reduce serum-PFAS - Environmental Health

Extensive use of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) has resulted in their ubiquitous presence in human blood. PFAS exposures have been associated with multiple adverse human health effects. Biomonitoring studies have focused on long-chain PFASs, but these are being replaced by short-chain PFASs or with alternate PFAS chemistries (or replacement chemistries such as GenX), resulting in changes in human exposures with time. Here, we take ad…