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Dietary DNA in municipal wastewater reveals signatures of wealth, immigration, and coastal proximity
Source date: 2026-07-20. Records were retrieved through the arXiv date API and PubMed date search. This corrected issue replaces an earlier month-path retrieval error.
FoodSeq-FLOW sequenced dietary DNA in 183 samples from 21 North Carolina wastewater plants serving about 2.1 million people, detecting 184 plant and 116 animal food taxa. Community-level associations do not identify individual diets or causality.