SWITZERLAND SLUDGE VICTIMS
2002 Update
Switzerland -- Concern about sewage sludge -- "Pollutants at level too high for long term application", "Chronic
pollutant of the environment with trace elements" "Endocrine disrupters", and declining fishers, anomalies in fish,
amphibians, reptiles and other wildlife.
Switzerland -- Swiss to ban fertilizing with sludge -- growing concerns over pollutant content, including pharmaceutical
compounds and synthetic hormones.
the Ohio Study documented a (WHO. 1981) study, "....of Salmonella in cattle
grazing on sludge amended pastures in Switzerland (which) have indicated a positive association
and a cycle of infection from humans to sludge to animals to humans."
In 1986, Dr. Charles Gerba, University of Arizona, in his work, Development of a Qualitative Pathogen Risk
Assessment Methodology for Municipal Sludge Landfilling, noted that a study by:
"Hess and Breer (1975) reported that samonellae on grass treated with sludge could survive for a little less than 16
months in the climate of Switzerland, but most reported times are shorter."
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The results of a clinical investigation that was made among workers in a sewage treatment
plant in Switzerland with similar aged workers in a control group who were not exposed to
sewage showed that in about half of the exposed workers there were acute incidences of fever
and eye symptoms. Serum immunoglobulins, white blood cells and thrombocytes were
elevated in the exposed workers and a higher percentage of increased levels of C-reactive
protein and fibrinogen degradation products were found in the exposed group compared to the
control group. The investigation did not establish a definite cause-effect of endotoxins but they
were suspect. Endotoxins are poisonous substances present when bacteria die. (Rylander, R.,
Andersson, K., Belin, L., Berglund, G., Bergstrom, R., Hanson, L., Lundholm, m., and Mattsby,
I, Studies on Humans Exposed to Airborne Sewage "Sludge", Journal Article with English
abstract, Schweiz Med Wochenschr, February 12, 1977, 107 (6), pp. 182-4).