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Couched in language peppered with mays, the article suggests that we are all being poisoned with PBDEs from sewage sludge applied to farmland. However, sludge with high concentrations of volatile organics isn’t qualified in most jurisdictions of which I am aware for land application. It’s usually sent to a landfill or incinerated. Couches and chair cushions don’t appear in sewage plants, and therefore PBDEs in those objects don’t appear in the plants’ sludge, at least not directly.