The chemicals found on Stone’s farm likely came from biosolids, or nutrient-rich sewage from municipal utilities.

The curious case of tainted milk from a Maine dairy farm

The farm’s cow’s manure and their milk showed high levels of perfluoroalkyl substances

Reuters – For Maine dairy farmer Fred Stone, the discovery in 2016 that his cows were producing tainted milk has since brought financial ruin and threatened to shut down a century-old family business. Now state regulators and health experts are investigating whether the contamination could reflect a much broader problem for farms that used similar […] Read more