Researchers screened human waste for 310 chemicals - including rubber additives, insect repellents and pharmaceuticals - and only found them in 6.5% of the samples examined, but still at low concentrations.
Scientists said low levels of the painkiller ibuprofen and mood-stabilising drug carbamazepine were found - but added that someone would have to eat more than 500,000 cabbage heads to accumulate a dose equal to one pill. Author Franziska Hafner, a student at the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart, said products made from human urine and faeces"are viable and safe nitrogen fertilisers" and"did not show any risk regarding transmission of pathogens or pharmaceuticals".
The work by experts in Germany also looked at modern products already being made from human urine which are turned into ammonium and nitrate. This included Aurin, which was recently approved for use in agriculture in Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Austria, and CROP - combined regenerative organic food production - which is part of ongoing space projects to recycle wastewater for future bases on the moon and Mars.
seriously？so what kind of fertiliser the European are using backto thousands years ago？
Be back later, just going to take a dump on my vegetable patch.
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This story is just shit.
Face creams made from human faeces and urine are ‘safe’ to use on the faces of scientists, say farmers.
These bloody farmers, why would you want to use human faeces on crops. They are not happy with polluting the air with vile silage now using human faeces NFUtweets . disgusting
Geez we've been eating food for so long from what was originally bomb-making WW2 chemical companies that we now need to study whether food grown from organic processes is safe.
Asbestos was deemed safe too 👍
Yess, make your shit useful human
North Koreans are forced to give their poo to the regime and are killed if they don't supply a certain amount. Crazy but true
Lol most of the rice we consume comes from paddies full of human shit.
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It has been the case for centuries, where do you think the fertiliser is coming from before the modern biochemical and industrial revolution?
North Korea has been so for ages...
Is using human excrement to fertilise crops vegan? 😂
Dose that include faeces from people with Hep c and Hiv, could it be out water companies have paid corupt scientists for nonsense ?
Like radium was
And why not the river and sea are full of it, that is ok with the government and the people who supply the drinking water
Been happening for years apparently!
Strange as it sounds It’s probably a lot more healthy than some of the pesticides & chemical fertilisers they are allowed to use🤷♂️
Would that make vegetarians full of shit?
I knew eating vegetables and being vegetarian was bad for you. lol.
Why is this an article, my father was using it on his farm 70 years ago, it came in dried pellet form trade name at the time was humacide.
Divert it from the rivers and beaches.
I don’t believe them. Remember when these same scientists lied and said the COVID19 vaccines were safe and effective.
Water companies breathe a huge sigh of relief…
..it'll be soylent green next...🙄
They did this for years before health and safety, got involved. Who do you think emptied cesspit and the like in rural communities, and where do you think farmers got so much manure.
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