Sentences with phrase «allowing toxic substances»

$ 12 million settlement against the City of New York for allowing toxic substances to emit from the Pelham Bay Landfill, causing victims to suffer childhood leukemia.

Certain behaviors and medical conditions can compromise this wall, allowing toxic substances and bacteria to enter the bloodstream.

A leak in the epithelium may allow toxic substances in urine to irritate your bladder wall.

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That designation allowed the state to list perfluorooctanoic acid or PFOA, a toxic chemical that has been found in elevated levels in the village's water supply, as a hazardous substance.

The particular advantage of this device is that it allows researchers to watch how liver cells react to toxic substances directly and in real time.

The detection of these recycling plants in the deep ocean allows us to identify those regions with the greatest accumulation of toxic substances and to use these bacteria as biosensors of the ecological status of such an unknown environment so far.»

Many political observers, stakeholders and lawmakers, blame the lack of proper chemical oversight on the Toxic Substances Control Act, or TSCA — a 1976 law that allows the EPA to regulate industrial chemicals.

But the Toxic Substances Control Act explicitly allowed chemicals already employed at the time of the law's passage — BPA and more than 60,000 others — to continue to be used without any evaluation for toxicity or exposure limits.

Under the Toxics Substances Control Act the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency allows some PCBs in manufacturing as «unintentional impurities.»

As another potential explanation for the link between brain and gut, Lukiw cited evidence that «both the GI tract and blood - brain barriers become significantly more leaky with aging,» potentially allowing toxic bacteria and other substances from the GI system to access the central nervous system.

An increased lead of undigested protein fragments can get to the colon and feed a section of the flora there which overgrow, produce poisonous substances (like ammonia and various biogenic aminos) which are toxic to the body if allowed access to the general circulation.

Detoxification will allow you to eliminate some of the toxic substances that you may have inhaled, ingested or taken into your body via the skin.

It allows more time to absorb toxic substances including certain flora that should be moved on.

This is beneficial for both plants and animals by promoting balanced hydration and allowing the body to pass unwanted toxic substances.»

The free phone call to poison control allows pet owners to receive quick advice to determine if they should seek immediate care and will be provided with a case number that a vet can call to get further advice if the vet is not familiar with the toxic substance.

«Apart from the obvious problem, namely that CO2 is not a toxic substance; this move would allow Ottawa to penalize, in the form of emissions taxes, the production of CO2.

The difficulty in regulating nanomaterials is compounded by the fact that scientists and industry are divided over whether to consider them as «new chemicals» - which would place them under the purview of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), an EPA law that requires companies to report any new chemicals being worked on before they are allowed to enter the marketplace.

Potentially renewable resources should be managed to conserve their long - term viability; nonrenewable resources should be extracted at rates that allow an ordered transition to alternatives; emission of waste and toxic substances must remain within the assimilative capacities of natural systems; and more - vigorous measures must be taken to preserve species, habitats, and ecosystems.

So the question is, in the absence of definitive scientific proof, will the courts allow plaintiffs to introduce and rely on evidence establishing the probability that the toxic substance caused the plaintiff's disease?