Agricultural Feeding Operations
Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs)
– information about CAFOs
Links to information from outside CDC
Animal Feedlots [external link]
(Minnesota Pollution Control Agency) – list of Minnesota’s rules
governing the
- storage, transportation, disposal, and use of animal manure and process wastewaters
- permits for construction and operation of animal manure management and disposal or use systems
Animal Waste Disposal Issues in North Carolina [external link] (U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency Office of Inspector General) –
review document about six spills from animal waste lagoons in
North Carolina during summer 1995
Environmental Injustice in North Carolina’s Hog Industry [external link]
(Environmental Health Perspectives) – study on whether
there are disproportionate impacts of intensive hog production
on people of color and on the poor in North Carolina
Manure Management
and Air Quality Education and Research
[external link]
(University of Minnesota Extension Service) – university
extension service that focuses on economically feasible and
environmentally sound manure handling systems that also meet air
and water quality protection regulations
Research Shows Cattle Are Infected With E. coli Mostly in
Summer [external link]
(Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of
Agriculture) – study on the percentage of cattle entering
processing plants carrying strains of the E. coli bacterium
during peak contamination season
Tracking Manure-borne Pathogens [external link]
(Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of
Agriculture) – study on the paths microbial pathogens can take
to taint food and water supplies