Sentences with phrase «allowable levels»
"Allowable levels" refers to the acceptable or permissible amounts or standards set for something. It indicates the maximum or minimum limit within which something can be considered acceptable or within the norm. Full definition
The defeat devices cause the vehicles to emit «much higher» than allowable levels of nitrogen oxide pollution, according to the suit.
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From the 2007 Bali Climate Declaration by Scientists, there is pretty good consensus over the maximum allowable level of carbon in the atmosphere and the 50 % reduction in absolute emission levels that needs to be achieved to get there.
At a Wednesday news conference announcing the move, DOH Commissioner Howard Zucker repeatedly said his agency would start with a safety baseline of 400 ppt safety measure, the EPA's maximum allowable level for short - term PFOA exposure, as it began its health assessment of the contamination.
do nt buy orijens they claim human grade but the levels of arsenic in their food is 1500 ppb human allowable levels in europe are 200 - 300ppb in a rice cake
The highly processed options are filled with feed - grade ingredients with higher allowable levels of toxins, and potentially carcinogens, as compared to human grade foods.
Medakovic was charged with impaired driving and having more than the legal allowable level of alcohol in her system while driving.
At the current allowable levels of sulfur in marine bunker fuels, pollutant emissions (particulates, black carbon, NOx, SOx, and CO2) from... Read more →
Radioactive iodine 131 and cesium 137 have been detected in milk and leafy vegetables such as spinach, as well as in tap water, in some cases above allowable levels for consumption.
They estimated that 50 percent of the population taste threshold for manganese II, the simplest ionic manganese oxide, to be more than 1000 times the current EPA allowable level.
So far, the cesium 137 levels in salmon they've tested have been «very, very low — thousands of times below the maximum allowable levels in drinking water,» they say.
Then the Sewerage and Water board got involved, questioning the testing method and arguing for a higher allowable level of lead.
Then, another agency, the California Department of Public Health, will adopt a regulation setting a maximum allowable level for water supplies based on the health goal but also considering economic and technological complications.
The officers administered a breath sample test which showed readings of 195 and 193, which were double the legal allowable level.
Feed - grade ingredients have a higher allowable levels of toxins, such as mold - based mycotoxin, which can have immunosuppressive and toxic effects on the body.
As a result of that collapse, emission levels there are far below the allowable levels.
A lawsuit filed Thursday in Los Angeles County Superior Court claims that some California wines tested for inorganic arsenic contain higher - than - allowable levels.
Chinese tinned peaches served in hospitals and other institutions in Australia could contain up to twice the allowable levels of lead, according to test results released by a Coalition backbencher, Sharman Stone, as she fights to save Australia's last fruit major processor, SPC Ardmona.
For example, he said, an activist judge could decide that allowable levels of contaminants under state and federal laws did not meet the hazy standard of a «healthful environment.»
What chemicals should we be testing for, and what are the allowable levels of those chemicals in the water?»
Although no region of Mars is banned for exploration, international treaties set the allowable levels of microbial contamination on robotic spacecraft destined for other planetary environments.
In 1979, the EPA adopted the THM regulation, limiting their allowable level in drinking water supplies.
«At this point, no one has defined what the allowable levels of human contamination are,» Rucker says.
Microwaves do, make no mistake, emit radiation, and the FDA has established what it considers «safe» levels for microwaves: over the machine's «lifetime» the allowable level is «5 milliwatts of microwave radiation per square centimeter... approximately 2 inches from the oven surface.»
The FDA findings also reached similar conclusions to the independent analysis by the Chicago Tribune, with face cream tested by the agency containing mercury up to 131,000 times more than the allowable level.
While the CDC (Center for Disease Control) has steadily dropped the «allowable level» of lead in the blood over the last fifteen years, there remains a problem with using blood levels in the first place.
School officials agreed to raise the allowable level, but they later abandoned the testing plan.
After water tested at one San Diego Unified campus revealed the presence of lead at twice the allowable levels, testing is under way at schools across the district.
Even though the American Pet Products Association (APPA) does check with its suppliers to ensure that products are tested for lead and other toxins, there are no national standards for allowable levels of these substances in pet toys.
Grains that are used in pet foods are considered to be feed grade (instead of human grade), and have higher allowable levels of toxins (mold - based toxins like aflatoxin and vomitoxin).
The maximum permissible radiation level is higher for older microwave ovens, with an allowable level of 5 mW / cm2, measured 5 cm away from the oven surface.
That's within the guidelines of the regulations, and is quite common, depending on the metal level of the plan (bronze plans tend to have the highest out - of - pocket maximums - often at the highest possible level - while gold and platinum plans tend to have the lowest out - of - pocket maximums, typically quite a bit lower than the maximum allowable level).