{
  "id": 151651,
  "title": "Dietary DNA in municipal wastewater reveals signatures of wealth, immigration, and coastal proximity",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/07/20/dietary-dna-in-municipal-wastewater-reveals-signatures-of-wealth",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-07-20T07:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "PNAS",
    "slug": "pnas",
    "url": "https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2530704123?af=R"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 31, August 2026. SignificancePoor diet is a leading driver of chronic disease worldwide, yet current dietary surveillance methods are costly, slow, and prone to bias. We introduce FoodSeq-FLOW (Food Landscape Observation in Wastewater), a DNA sequencing platform that ...",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}