Sentences with phrase «lead exposure assessment»

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In neighborhoods where kids have an increased chance of exposure to toxic lead, pigeons also have higher blood lead levels — making the birds potential proxies for risk assessment.

«These chemicals are just about everywhere, from the blood in polar bears to eagles to humans on every continent,» said Joseph Allen, assistant professor of exposure assessment science at Harvard Chan School and the study's lead author.

In comments on the 2019 budget proposal, the GOP majority on the Science panel led by Smith suggested that EPA's funding should be contingent on the administrator's «requiring that all scientific and technical information and data relied on to support a risk, exposure, or hazard assessment; criteria document; standard; limitation; regulation; regulatory impact analysis; or guidance issued by the EPA is made publicly available.»

Since then, risk assessment has been used to estimate the probability of a catastrophic meltdown at a nuclear power plant, or the probability of a population of grizzly bears becoming locally extinct because too many roads were cut into their forest home, or the probability of children having their IQ lowered by exposure to toxic lead and PCBs in the soil near schools built on a toxic waste dump.