[All] New Disease-Preventing Approach for Health Units: "Opening cans of worms" instead of ignoring them!

[Robert Milligan]

Liana,

Doesn't this look interesting?

Antibiotic-resistant Bacteria Found In Fertilizer, Finds Study Of  
Swedish Sewage Sludge
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090528203737.htm

Wouldn't it provide great job satisfaction if you could "safely" look  
into it in the spirit of a Pioneering Innovative Region? I guess that  
I'll just have to keep dreaming about a very unlikely safer World!

Or, maybe Mike & Ken would encourage you to investigate how serious a  
problem this might be both at our sewage treatment plants, and for  
farmer's health and food crop safety where sludge is used?

And what about "treated" waste water that is discharged into the Grand  
River watershed -- how safe is it? Are people living downwind -- or  
just in the vicinity --  of sewage treatment plants being exposed?

This indeed looks like a really exciting can of worms to open so you  
can go fishing for potentially very serious health-safety and  
environmental-safety problems here -- possibly in collaboration with  
the GRCA, MOE, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Natural Resources,  
Federal Department of Health, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, etc.

My view here would be that if various other agencies -- such as I  
mentioned -- are not taking expeditious action to look into these  
types of new technology-caused problems, then we should take the  
needed initiatives -- including the creation of a Health Intelligence  
Group (in cooperation with UofW, UofG, UWO's Ecosystem Health  
program, ... ) -- so as to better protect the health and safety of our  
citizens.

In fact, such an initiative could possibly be communicated as an  
additional attracting feature of our exemplary Pioneering Innovative  
Region (LRT currently exempted), viz. "We go that extra mile to  
protect your environmental health & safety."

I can see many implied suggestions for New Years Resolutions for all  
recipients here!

Robert, BSc, Environmental Health Analyst

P.S. Since we are on the topic of health dangers from new  
technologies, here is a developing problem to ponder:
Biomagnification of Nanomaterials in Simple Food Chain Demonstrated
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101220142436.htm



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