CAFO Resources, References and Links

Here are links to the most important resources and references in documenting the affects of CAFO's on our lives, our land, our air, and our water resources.

1. Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, Health Consultation, Final Report on Exposure Investigation Findings, Valley View Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation

2. Missouri Department of Natural Resources, Guide to Animal Feeding Operations

3. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System, Animal Feeding Operations

4. Iowa Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations Air Quality Study

5. Potential Health Effects of Odor From Animal Operations, Wastewater Treatment, and Recycling of Byproducts

6. Minnesota Medicine - Community and Environmental Health Effects of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations

7. An Environmental Nuisance: Odor Concentrated and Transported by Dust

8. Quantification of Odors and Odorants from Swine Operations in North Carolina

9. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Health Studies.1

10. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Health Studies.2

11. Human Health Effects of Agriculture: Physical Diseases and Illness

12. Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations: Public Health and Community Impacts

13. What are the Human Health Effects From Breathing the Air Near Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations for Feeder Cattle or Hogs?

14. APHA Precautionary Moratorium on New Concentrated Animal Feed Operations

15. Public Health Concerns for Neighbors of Large-Scale Swine Production Operations

16. Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy - Food and Health Program Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations: Health Risks to Farmers and Workers

17. USDA National Workshop on Agricultural Air Quality

18. Health Effects of Aerial Emissions from Animal Production Waste Management Systems, White Paper Summary

19. Air Emissions From Animal Production Buildings,

20. Intensive Livestock Operations, Health, and Quality of Life Among Eastern North Carolina Residents

21. Airborne Multi-drug Resistant Bacteria Isolated from a Concentrated Swine Feeding Operation

22. Symptomatic Effects of Exposure to Diluted Air Sampled from a Swine Confinement Atmosphere on Healthy Human Subjects

23. NEIGHBOR HEALTH AND LARGE-SCALE SWINE PRODUCTION, A White Paper Prepared for the Conference An Agricultural Safety and Health Conference: Using Past and Present to Map Future Action, March 3-4, 2001, Baltimore, Maryland

24. Public Health Assessment ValAdCo Confined Livestock Operation, Renville County, Minnesota, February 2003

25. Increased Animal Waste Production from Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOS): Potential Implications for Public and Environmental Health. Nebraska Center for Rural Health Research

26. Monitoring and Modeling of Emissions from CAFOs: Overview of Methods. Environmental Health Perspectives, November 2006

27. Concentrated Animal Feedlot Operations (CAFOs) Chemicals Associated with Air Emissions. CAFO subcommittee of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, May 10, 2006.

28. The Confinement Animal Feeding Operation Workshop, June 23-24, 1998, Washington, DC. National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, 1998

29. Bacterial Plume Emanating from the Air Surrounding Swine Confinement Operations. Christopher F. Green, Shawn G. Gibbs, et al. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene. Volume 3, Number 1, January 2006

30. Confined Animal Facilities in California, November 2004

31. Animal Factories: Pollution and Health Threats to Rural Texas, May 2000. Consumer Union.

32. Health Effects of Airborne Exposures from Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations. Environmental Health Perspectives, February 2007.

33. Detecting and Mitigating the Environmental Impact of Fecal Pathogens Originating from the Confined Animal Feeding Operations: Review. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency/600/R-06/021, September 2005.

34. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Impacts of Animal Feeding Operations. December 31, 1998.

35. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 6, Swine CAFO Odors: Guidance for Environment Impact Assessment.

36. Ambient hydrogen sulfide, total reduced sulfur, and hospital visit for respiratory diseases in northeast Nebraska, 1998-2000. Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology, March 2004.

37. Community Health and Socioeconomic Issues Surrounding Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations. Environmental Health Perspectives, February 2007.

38. EPA Gives Animal Feeding Operations Immunity from Environmental Statutes in a Sweetheart Deal. Laura Karvosky, Vermont Journal of Environmental Law

39. Impacts of Waster from Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations on Water Quality, Environmental Health Perspectives, February 2007.

40. Race, Poverty, and Potential Exposure of Middle-School Students to Air Emissions from Confined Swine Feeding Operations, Environmental Health Perspectives, April 2006.

41. The Potential Role of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations in Infectious Disease Epidemics and Antibiotic Resistance, Environmental Health Perspectives, Feb 2007.

42. Raising a Stink: Air Emissions from Factory Farms, Michele Merkel, July 1, 2002.

43. Feedlot Air Quality Summary, Data Collection, Enforcement and Program Development, March 1999. Minnesota Pollution Control Agency.

44. Testimony of Karen Hudson. Peoria County Board of Public Health, Illinois. July 19, 2001.

45. Odor from industrial hog farming operations and mucosal immune function in neighbors, Archives of Environmental Health, February 2004.

46. Isolation of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria from the Air Plume Downwind of a Swine Confined or Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation, Environmental Health Perspectives, July 2006.

47. The effect of environment odors emanating from commercial swine operations on the mood of nearby residents, Brain Research Bulletin, Volume 37, Issue 4, 1995.

48. The health significance of environmental odor pollution, Archives of Environmental Health, January-February 1992.

49. Livestock Odors: Implications for Human Health and Well-Being, Journal of Animal Science, 1998.

50. An Evaluation of Health Concerns in Milford, Utah and the Possible
Relationship of Circle Four Farms to Those Concerns. Southwest Utah
Board of Health, Southwest Utah Public Health Department, February 2001.

51. Science of Odor as a Potential Health Issue, Journal of Environmental Quality, January-February 2005.

52. Environmental Injustice in North Carolina's Hog Industry, Environmental Health Perspectives, March 2000.

53. NPDES Permit Writers' Guidance Manual and Example NPDES Permit for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water, December 31, 2003.

54. Consent Decree Between USA and Citizens Legal Environmental Action Net Work, Inc and Premium Standard Farms Inc. Case No. 97-6073-CV-SJ-6. United States District Court, Western District of Missouri, St. Joseph Division.

55. Human Health Effects of Hog Waste, Swinker M., North Carolina Medical Journal 59:16-18 (1998).

56. Control study of the physical and mental health of residents living near a large-scale swine operation. Thu K, Donham K, Ziegenhorn R, Reynolds S, Thorne P, Subramanian P, Whitten P, Stookesberry J.A., Journal of Agricultural Safety and Health 3:13-26 (1997).

57. Beware of Manure Pit Hazards. Howard J.D, Howard L.P, William M., Michigan State University Extension.

58. Final Technical Work Paper for Human Health Issues, Animal Agriculture GEIS, Jan 2001. Earth Tech, Inc., Minneapolis, MN. Minnesota Planning, St. Paul, MN.