PATHOGENS IN SLUDGE - BIOSOLIDS - RECLAIMED WATER
Why Would EPA Imply These Pathogens Are Not Disease Causing Organisms?
Part 503 list -1989
Why did EPA refuse to make this list public and removed it from the final 1993 Part 503?
THERE IS NO FEDERAL STANDARD FOR PATHOGENS. EPA Office of Water refers to pathogens in the Clean
Water Act as Fecal coliform in Part 401.16 E. coli, Salmonella and Salmonella are members of a group of
12 bacteria that make a coliform under the Public Health Service STANDARD. They all create a virtually
identical signature during a fecal coliform contamination lab test
EPA Office of Water does not consider pathogens to be hazardous to the environment or human health
because the Office of Hazardous Waste has never developed a list of disease organisms referred to as
Etiologic Agents under part 261 Appendix VI. EPA also does not consider bacteria in the viable, but
nonculturable state to be a hazards to you health when they regain the viable state.
As we all know from the media stories, at least E. coli and Salmonella will cause death, But the EPA
document implies that the worse that can happen is that you get a case of gastroenteritis, rather than any
actual organ damage. As you can guess, these are not the only pathogens in sludge - biosolids that could
kill you. Click here for index to deadly disease bacteria and viruses EPA doesn't want to talk about.
MATERIAL SAFETY DATA SHEETS LABORATORY SAFETY
http://deadlydeceit.com/MSDS-Sheets.html
Click on names for more information
BACTERIA
1. Campylobacter jejuni ------------------------- Gastroenteritis.
2. Escherichia coli (pathogenic strains): ---------Gastroenteritis.
3. Salmonella sp ------------------------------------ Gastroenteritis and enteric fever
4. Shigella sp ----------------------------------------- Gastroenteritis.
5. Vibrio Cholerae -------------------------------------Cholera
Bacteria in 1988 EPA compost study
Current EPA compost fact sheet
Bacteria EPA forgot to talk about
VIRUSES
6. Entroviruses: -----------------------------------------no disease (EPA's kidding)
7. Poliovirus ------------------------Gastroenteritis, meningitis, carditis, nervous system
involvement, pneumonia, infectious hepatitis
8. Coxsackieviruses ----------------------------------- Infectious Hepatitis
9. Echovirus --------------------------------------------no disease (EPA's kidding)
10. Hepatitis A (HAV)--------------------------------------no disease (EPA's kidding)
11. Norwalk ---------------------------------------= Gastroenteritis
12. Norwalk like viruses -------------------------- Gastroenteritis
13. Reovirus ----------------------------------------- Respiratory infections, gastroenteritis
14 Rotavirus --------------------------------------- Gastroenteritis, infant diarrhea
Viruses EPA forgot to talk about
HELMINTHS
15. Necator americanus ------------------------------- Hookworms,
16. Taenia sp ------------------------------------------ Taeniasis (Tapeworm)
17. Toxicara ------------------------------------------- Visceral larva migrans
18. Trichuris sp-------------------------------------- Ascariasis
19. Hymenolepis nana ----------------------------- Taeniasis
PROTOZOANS
20. Toxoplasma gondii -------------------------------Toxoplasmosis
21. Balantidium -------------------------------------- Balantidiasis
22. Entamoeba histolyca, ---------------------------- Amebic dysentery
23. Giardia lambia ------------------------------------ Giardiasis
24. Crytosporidium----------------------------------- Gastroenteritis
FUNGUS
25. Aspergillus----------------------------------------- Aspergillosis or respiratory infections