prions now are such a formidable threat that the united states government enacted the bioterrorism preparedness and response act of 2002 to halt research on infectious prions in the united states in all but two laboratories. now, infectious prions are classified as select agents that require special security clearance for lab research. the prion pathogen spreads through urine, feces, saliva, blood, milk, soil, and the tissue of infected animals (not to mention soil and water). with those attributes, prions obviously can migrate through surface water runoff and settle in groundwater, lakes, oceans, and water reservoirs. they can be ingested by wildlife, livestock and humans (especially children). we can't afford to take the risk of further contaminating entire watersheds – increasing the pathway to humans, livestock, and wildlife downstream. @gary_chandler if prions must be regulated in a laboratory environment today, the outdoor environment should be managed accordingly. if we can't sterilize surgical equipment used on people who have prion disease, why are we kidding ourselves that we can neutralize them in sewage? it’s time to develop a comprehensive prion-management strategy that maximizes safeguards for human health, food, water, and wildlife around the globe. the stakes are too high for fragmented and misguided prion policies. it's time to stop spreading pathogens and lies.

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not only are this idiots rebranding sewage sludge as compost with a new research organization the government can fund, thry have help rebrand potential bioterrorism agents within the coliform and fecal coliform family. they even use these potential bioterrorism agents to prove to you sludge compost is safe. http://thewatchers.us/science/thermotolerant-.html

landspreading of sewage sludge "biosolids" is a dangerous activity. dr. claudio soto, univ/tex recently proved what other scientists have been saying for years - alzheimers is a prion disease (similar to mad cow disease- us epidemic = 6 million victims): www.alzheimers-prion.com/ alzheimer's victims shed infectious prions in their blood, saliva, mucous, urine and feces. sewage treatment does not inactivate prions. to the contrary, it reconcentrates the infectious prions in the sewage sludge being applied on home gardens, us cropland, grazing fields and dairy pastures, putting humans, family pets, wildlife and livestock at risk. other prion contaminated wastes discharged to sewers include rendering plants (which process remains of 2 million potentially bse infected downer cows each year), slaughterhouses, embalmers and morticians, biocremation, taxidermists, butcher shops, veterinary and necropsy labs, hospitals, landfill leachates (where cwd infected and other carcasses are disposed), drinking water is at risk for prions if it comes from a surface source (river or lake) which receives treated sewage effluent. epa national water research compendium 2009-2014 lists prions eight times as an emerging contaminant of concern in sewage sludge "biosolids" , water and manure: http://www.sludgevictims.com/prions/prions-epa-emergingcontaminantsinsludgebio.pdf renown prion researcher, joel pedersen, university of wisconsin, found that prions become 680 times more infective in certain soils: http://pathogens.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.ppat.0030093 oral transmissibility of prion disease is enhanced by binding to soil particles dr. pedersen and associates found that anaerobic digestion sewage treatment did not inactivate prions in sludge. "persistence of pathogenic prion protein during simulated wastewater treatment processes" http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1021/es703186e in the july 3, 2010 issue of veterinary record, dr. pedersen stated: “finally, the disposal of sludge was considered to represent the greatest risk of spreading (prion) infectivity to other premises.” helane shields, po box 1133, alton,, nh 03809 hshields@tds.net 603-875-3842 www.alzheimers-prions.com/ www.sludgevictims.com