Showing posts with label water pollution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label water pollution. Show all posts

Sunday, February 20, 2011

USF Microbiologist Tracks Pollution from Large Scale Chicken Operations

A USF microbiologist, Valerie Harwood, has found a source-specific micro-organism that she believes allows contaminated water to be traced back to poultry operations. Now that her approach has been validated in two peer-reviewed journals, it appears she was right and massive confined animal feeding operations may finally be held accountable for water pollution.