13 Feb 2024 --- A Norwegian study has revealed that recycled food waste processed in biogas plants may harbor pharmaceutical residues. However, fungi cultivated in biogas digestate show minimal absorption of these contaminants.In her doctoral thesis, Astrid Solvåg Nesse, a research scientist at the Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research, collected and examined biogas digestates of food waste and sewage sludge from all public biogas plants in Norway.
