Source: NORTH CAROLINA HEALTH NEWS, 6/25/18


When expert witness Shane Rogers steps into a witness box in federal court these days, he takes pains to explain why he thinks some hog farms in eastern North Carolina create nuisance-level odors. First, the Clarkson University environmental scientist lays out his approach to feces forensics. He hunts for a very specific bacterium called Pig2Bac, a microbe native to the gut of swine that gets excreted with hog feces.

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