Sludge Watch ==> NAACP asks Attorney General to Probe Sludge Reseach on Children

[Maureen Reilly]

Sludgewatch Admin:

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is  a 
civil rights organization for ethnic minorities in the united States.

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NAACP asks attorney general to probe sludge research

Apr 14, 2008 3:55 PM (4 hrs ago) AP

Filed under: BALTIMORE , Sludge Poisoned Land

BALTIMORE (Map, News) - The head of the Maryland chapter of the NAACP is 
asking the state attorney general's office to investigate research in which 
fertilizer made from sewage sludge was spread onto lawns in poor black 
neighborhoods.

Scientists used the sludge to test whether it might protect children from 
lead poisoning in the soil.

Gerald Stansbury, president of the Maryland Conference of the NAACP, said 
the experiments harken back to the infamous Tuskegee experiments in which 
syphilis treatment was denied to black men in order to study the illness.

Researchers say the families were assured the sludge was safe, but were not 
told that there have been some health concerns over the use of sludge.

http://www.examiner.com/a-1339957~NAACP_asks_attorney_general_to_probe_sludge_research.html