News release: Expert panel – food grown with produced water safe for human consumption
An expert panel has concluded that the decades-old practice of irrigating agricultural food crops with “produced water” from oil fields shows no evidence of increased risk to human health. The panel’s 35-page Food Safety Project White Paper is the result of five years of extensive crop sampling and a thorough evaluation of data, along with a review of existing literature…. The Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board is inviting members of the pubic to comment on the white paper at its next meeting on Feb. 18-19, along with an option to submit written comments until March 5.