The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission protects the public from unreasonable risks of injury or death from 15,000 types of consumer products under the agency's jurisdiction. There is material making the rounds of the web that questions the safety to humans of using bone meal as a fertilizer or soil amendment. The statements are not substantiated in the article. At that site there are links to the Center for Disease Control and other web sites for more information. There the interested reader can put the risks in perspective.
Bone meal is a popular source of P for organic production.
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