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DuPont works with leading meat, poultry and seafood manufacturers, like you, to develop packaging materials and sealing technologies that can seal at broader temperature ranges with better seal - through of contamination areas, help ensure stronger, more consistent seal integrity on all sides of the package and avoid the weak seal spots that cause leaks.

When x-ray systems are deployed at different points in the production and packaging process, food manufacturers can significantly reduce the risk of foreign matter contamination that leads to costly recalls.

A $ 150,000 study completed for the Chicago Park District in January found that lead contamination did not pose a danger at the site.

For the first time, Georgia Division of Environmental Protection will check the addresses where water systems take their samples to be sure those sites are at the highest risk for lead contamination.

Environmental advocates are calling on state lawmakers to use the final six weeks of the session to develop and pass legislation requiring lead and copper water testing at the tap in New York schools and, if necessary, remediation of contamination.

At Tuesday's state Senate hearing on the water contamination in Hoosick Falls, the federal EPA came in for criticism from some state officials who blamed the agency for failing to lead, and from some lawmakers who said they were disappointed the EPA did not send a representative to the hearing.

Earlier this month, activists gathered at the state capital to push for a five - point action plan to address lead contamination.

«It was nowhere near as complex of a release as Chernobyl, which was everything from the core of the reactor,» says Peter Caracappa, a radiation safety officer and clinical assistant professor of nuclear engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. «This was a slow release,» he adds, and it was limited to a few radioactive materials, including iodine 131, which has a half - life of just eight days and therefore does not lead to long - term contamination.

Now researchers from the Center for Public Health and the Institute of Medical Genetics at MedUni Vienna have shown that this practice can also be detrimental to health: pregnant women who consume particular types of soil display higher levels of lead contamination — as do their babies.

Coal ash is known to contain dangerous elements including arsenic, lead, and selenium, yet the TVA refused at first to issue any health warnings about contamination from the spill.

A new field project, led by SLAC researchers and the DOE Office of Legacy Management, is using X-ray techniques to target long - lived groundwater contamination (large dark brown area) at former uranium ore processing sites in the floodplains of the upper Colorado River basin.

The data suggest that lead contamination is associated with a number of factors; older homes tend to be at greater risk, for instance, as are those of lower home value.

«Arsenic contamination is one of the biggest problems in drinking water all over the world,» said Dr. Babur Mirza, a researcher at USU's Utah Water Research Lab and lead author on the study.

What they found instead was a vacant lot at the corner of Annunciation and Orange in the Lower Garden District where they plan to create a campus of modular buildings, but soil tests of the playground area there have revealed lead contamination in the soil that exceeds federal limits by 10 times or more.

At this time there is no publicly available evidence to support the lead contamination claims.

Not all the pieces are fundamentally confrontational though; after feeling the contamination of Peter Buggenhout's post-apocalyptic dust bunnies in The Blind Leading the Blind # 21, Björn Dahlem's The Milky Way feels redemptive and cleansing, particularly in its location at the heights of the gallery's top rooms.

For example, stormwater across the city of Milwaukee recently showed high human fecal pathogen levels at all 45 outflow locations, indicating widespread sewage contamination.87 One study estimated that increased storm events will lead to an increase of up to 120 % in combined sewer overflows into Lake Michigan by 2100 under a very high emissions scenario (A1FI), 57 leading to additional human health issues and beach closures.

This last hearing is expected to reflect the sentiment at previous public hearings — people don't want to live at risk of contamination from heavy metals like arsenic, mercury and lead.

«Much of the continent's topsoil layers are still radioactively contaminated,» says Ulf Büntgen, Head of the Dendroecology Group at the Swiss Federal Research Institute (WSL) and lead author of a new study measuring something dear to a foodie's heart: the contamination level of Burgundy truffles (Tuber aestivum), like those pictured below.

Conducted by a team of Indian researchers led by Swati Pattnaik and M. Vikram Reddy of the Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, at Pondicherry University, the research holds particular promise for dealing with the growing problem of urban organic waste which is often dumped on the outskirts of major settlements, polluting soils and causing issues for groundwater contamination.

Alistair Mackenzie, product liability expert and barrister at leading civil and commercial chambers 2 Temple Gardens, had this to say: «Given the number of recent food contamination scares, for the authorities to finally hold a company properly to account is long overdue.

Among other areas, our litigation experience in the environmental area includes governmental and private - party actions under CERCLA (including serving as lead counsel for PRP groups at major Superfund sites throughout the United States), citizen suits under RCRA, the Clean Water Act and other environmental laws, claims for property damage and personal injury arising from industrial emissions or environmental contamination, and defending clients against state and federal governmental enforcement actions.

The leadership fight in the Flint water contamination cases has escalated, with co-lead counsel firing back against «false and misleading accusations» and at least one defendant in the case raising concerns about the communications that all the lead plaintiffs lawyers have had with prospective class members.