Based on those results, Ames and Kyla Bennett, an ecologist with the nonprofit group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (Peer) who served as a consultant for the investigation, suggested that the fertiliser was contaminated with PFAS that leached onto the neighbouring farms and caused the damage. The product is made from biosolids, which is municipal wastewater-treated sewage sludge from the city of Fort Worth.
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