<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><base href="data:"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; ">Liana,</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; ">Doesn't this look interesting? </div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; ">Antibiotic-resistant Bacteria Found In Fertilizer, Finds Study Of Swedish Sewage Sludge</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090528203737.htm">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090528203737.htm</a></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">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! </span></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;"><br></span></b></span></font></div></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; "><b>Or,</b> 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?</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; ">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?</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; ">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.</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; "><b>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. </b></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; ">In fact, <b>such an initiative could possibly be communicated as an additional attracting feature of our exemplary Pioneering Innovative Region (</b>LRT currently exempted<b>),</b> viz. "We go that extra mile to protect your environmental health & safety."</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; ">I can see many implied suggestions for New Years Resolutions for all recipients here!</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; ">Robert, BSc, Environmental Health Analyst</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; ">P.S. Since we are on the topic of health dangers from new technologies, here is a developing problem to ponder:</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 15px; ">Biomagnification of Nanomaterials in Simple Food Chain Demonstrated</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; "><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101220142436.htm">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101220142436.htm</a></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></body></html>