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Forever Chemicals in Sludge May Taint Nearly 70M Farmland Acres — EWG 2025

70M acres of US farmland potentially contaminated by PFAS-laden sewage sludge.

Glen Kerby, Founder — I Drink Living Water

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Glen Kerby

Founder, I Drink Living Water

EWG's 2025 analysis puts a number on what sewage-sludge fertilizer is doing to American farmland: nearly 70 million acres potentially tainted with forever chemicals. EWG is one of the few organizations willing to run the math and name the exposure pathway. This is the data point that turns an abstract PFAS story into a map of where it's ending up in the food supply.

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