This really shouldn't be that big an issue. Human waste, properly treated, IS a good fertilizer -- it's been used that way for millenia. But when you combine poop with uranium and grow carrots with it... well, that's kinda messed up. Thanks to Jennifer for sending this in.
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It starts here:
http://www.syzygyjob.net/letstalk/messages/45514.shtml

"Last month in The IO we reported that traces of unmetabolized synthetic pharmaceutical drugs such as Prozac, antibiotics and hormones are turning up in the groundwater of Europe and North America. Levels of these substances are being detected because as much as 95 percent of synthetic drugs ingested are not metabolized and leave the body in their original forms through the urine and the feces. If prescription drugs are being detected in the water after it has been treated, we can infer that they will also be present in the "biosolids" being spread all over the crops of this nation.

"In Gore, Okla., a uranium-processing plant gets rid of low-level radioactive waste by licensing it as a liquid fertilizer and spraying it over 9,000 acres of grazing land.

"In Moxee City, Wash., dark powder from two Oregon steel mills is poured from rail cars into silos at Bay Zinc Co. under a federal hazardous waste storage permit. Then it is emptied from the silos for use as fertilizer. The newspaper called the powder a toxic byproduct of steel-making but did not identify it."


It continues here:
http://www.healthissuesmonthly.com/humanwasteinfertilizer.html

Last month in The IO we reported that traces of unmetabolized synthetic pharmaceutical drugs such as Prosac, antibiotics and hormones are turning up in the groundwater of Europe and North America. Levels of these substances are being detected because as much as 95 percent of synthetic drugs ingested are not metabolized and leave the body in their original forms through the urine and the feces. If prescription drugs are being detected in the water after it has been treated, we can infer that they will also be present in the "biosolids" being spread all over the crops of this nation.

The presence of metals in "biosolids" is also a concern. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Washington's Department of Ecology claim the metal content of "biosolids" processed at the state-of-the-art West Point Treatment Plant in Seattle is minimal. West Point Manager Dick Finger explains that raw sewage is digested, heated and spun at his facility until it's just right for shipment to the fields.

"We make sure the products that we produce are of a very high quality," said Finger. Government agencies also claim that the potential for the spread of transmissible disease is low because the soil upon which it is deposited will kill any remaining pathogens. "Am I concerned about significant impacts to human health and the environment? No, not based on the information I've seen so far," says state Biosolids Coordinator Kyle Dorsey.