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Some home garden fertilizers contain PFAS

If you buy some kinds of bagged fertilizer for your garden, you might be getting more than you want. The Ecology Center and Sierra Club sampled different fertilizers made from sewage sludge and found PFAS compounds, including some labelled "organic."

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