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The addition of large amounts of copper salts to pig rations to increase weight gain in the fattening pig has led to the production of excreta with high copper concentrations. Regulations governing the discharge of, among others, agricultural effluents into watercourses, the high cost of transporting pig waste slurries to waste treatment plants, and the difficulty involved in the treatment of this material have resulted in the application of pig waste on adjacent pastures.
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Van Rhee, J.A. (1975). Copper contamination effects on earthworms by disposal of pig waste in pastures. In: Vaněk, J. (eds) Progress in Soil Zoology. Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1933-0_49
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