A workshop about risk assessment of bio-solids used for agricultural purposes was held at Royal Scientific Society (RSS) within the period  Dec. 13-15,2005. The mentioned workshop is as a sub-activity of a project carried out by RSS and University of Arizona(UoA) for three successive years.

Within the activities of the workshop, researchers from University of Arizona presented the experiment  of Arizona state in reusing bio-solids after treatment for planting some crops such as cotton , barley and others. Many representatives from governmental  and none-governmental institutions and universities   participated in the workshop in addition to  representatives of international donor institutions.

A scientific seminar was also held for successive two days after the end of  workshop to discuss modifying the Jordanian  standard for bio-solids reuse in agriculture (No. 1145/1996) , many institutions participated in the process including Jordan Institution for Standards and Metrology (JISM), Ministry of Water and Irrigation(MWI) and Ministry of Environment in addition to some governmental universities.

 It worth to mention that such workshop comes within the cooperation process between RSS and Badia Research and Development Center (BRDC) / Higher Council for Science and Technology in carrying out many specialized research funded by United States Agency for International Development (USAID) by an agreement with the International Arid Land Consortium (IALC)   / University of Arizona