Sentences with word «biphenyl»

Activists say that each potentially contains in its structure hundreds of kilograms of polychlorinated biphenyl compounds (PCBs)-- which accumulate in sea animals and may be neurotoxic — as well as asbestos and heavy metals.

Probably the last place anyone would want to find airborne polychlorinated biphenyl compounds (PCBs) is in the kitchen, yet that's exactly where scientists detected their presence, according to a new report in ACS» journal Environmental Science & Technology.

Polychlorinated biphenyls disrupt blood - brain barrier integrity and promote brain metastasis formation.

«I never knew what PCBs [polychlorinated biphenyls] are.»

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand released a letter asking EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy to reevaluate and reverse the decision to stop dredging because of lingering polychlorinated biphenyl hotspots in the upper river.

General Electric says it has completed its sixth and final year of dredging sediment contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls from the upper Hudson River.

Velsicol is infamous for one of the worst chemical disasters in U.S. history: In 1973 a flame retardant compound they manufactured — polybrominated biphenyls, or PBBs — was mixed up with a cattle feed supplement, which led to widespread contamination in Michigan.

«We were getting headaches from tumbling naphthalene and biphenyl under fume hoods — and we deliberately picked some of the safest, most benign things that may exist on Titan to work with.

They milled transmission masks into ultra-thin membranes of silicon nitride, biphenyl molecules or carbon with a focussed ion beam and analysed them with ultra-high resolution electron microscopy.

In a European collaboration (NANOQUESTFIT) together with partners around Professor Ori Cheshnovsky at Tel Aviv University (where all nanomasks were written), as well as with support by groups in Jena (growth of biphenyl membranes, Prof. Turchanin), and Vienna (High - Resolution Electron Microscopy, Prof. Meyer) they now demonstrated for the first time that such gratings can be fabricated even from the thinnest conceivable membranes.

PC is composed of biphenyl A, which has been linked to cancer and obesity.

Leading national and state organizations share the U.S. Environment Protection Agency's (EPA) concerns over potential health risks of PCBs (polychlorinaed biphenyls) in schools and daycares.

Thick clouds of smoke clog the sky, and oily liquids called polychlorinated biphenyls spray into the air and leak onto the pavement.

Heat Transfer Fluid Life Time Analysis of Diphenyl Oxide / Biphenyl Grades for Concentrated Solar Power Plants

Polychlorinated biphenyls not only have been linked to cancer, thyroid disease and immune - system disorders in humans, but adversely affect fish, forcing New York State to close or impose severe restrictions on lucrative recreational and commercial fisheries all the way to New York Harbor, 200 miles downriver.

Polychlorinated biphenyls disrupt intestinal integrity via NADPH oxidase - induced alterations of tight junction protein expression.

Tartu coauthored a 2017 paper showing that toxic pollutants such as polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, can build up in bear fat.

This Playtex Bottle Liners Drop - Ins, 4 Ounce is made of Biphenyl - A free materials and it has a nipple that works like a real nipple.

The reason for this is that not only do they have mercury, but oily fish like salmon, trout, mackerel, tuna and herring can contain pollutants such as dioxins and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs).

This newborn baby bottle is Biphenyl - A or BPA free and the over-all experience it gives reflects that of natural breastfeeding.

Nearly 700 NYC schools, including Richard R. Green High School of Teaching, the High School of Economics and Finance and others in Lower Manhattan, are likely contaminated with Polychlorinated biphenyl (P.C.B.) toxins, according to a news advisory distributed by U.S. Congressman Jerrold Nadler's office.

The parcel has a long history of pollution, including high concentrations of polychlorinated biphenyls, from its decades as a scrap metal recycling facility.

In fact, the E.P.A. says the lake that Martens bobbed around in for about ten minutes while wearing a life jacket contains the following substances: «mercury, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs); pesticides; creosotes; heavy metals including lead, cobalt, and mercury; polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs); and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) such as chlorobenzene.»

«We are deeply concerned that unsupervised demolition work by Success Academy over the summer caused potential contamination of the school with asbestos and polychlorinated biphenyl (PCBs),» said UFT President Michael Mulgrew in a letter to Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott, dated April 25.

Exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls can cause cancer.

Local officials say the EPA has directed the removal of polychlorinated biphenyls — or PCBs — around the Dewey Loeffel Superfund Site in the Town of Nassau.

The company, which operated electric capacitor factories in Fort Edward and Hudson Falls, for years dumped an estimated 1.3 million pounds of PCBs — polychlorinated biphenyls — in the river until the practice was banned in 1977 amid concerns that the chemicals are carcinogenic.

According to a statement from county legislators last week, Cuomo and New York state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman are ready to sue the federal government if the EPA decides to wrap up its dredging of the upper Hudson River; a section of the waterway long - polluted by the presence of polychlorinated biphenyls, PCBs.

Boston - based GE completed removal of 2.75 million cubic yards (2.1 million cubic meters) of polychlorinated biphenyl - contaminated sediment from the river in 2015.

In June, the EPA's Five - Year Review found that its selected PCB (Polychlorinated biphenyls) cleanup remedy wasn't yet «protective» of the public health and environment but it would be in half century.

European whales and dolphins may be at risk of extinction from the effects of polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, a team of researchers recently reported in Scientific Reports.

PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) were once industrial wonder chemicals but were banned by many developed nations by the end of the 1980s because of human health and environmental concerns.

Toxic blasts from the past Beginning in the mid-2000s, scientists observed higher levels of certain POPs, including hexachlorobenzene and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), at the Norwegian research station.

The blood samples were tested for levels of 11 pesticides and 36 polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) compounds.

Higher blood levels of pollutants such as bisphenol A (BPA), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and hexachlorobenzene (HCB) have been found in mothers with failed IVF attempts, according to a handful of recent studies.

Nine percent of the doctors told their patients about polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), industrial compounds often found in fish.

Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), the pesticide DDT and other banned compounds dropped about 50 percent in fish in Lakes Michigan, Ontario and Huron from 1999 through 2009, although there were no significant changes in Lakes Superior and Erie fish, according to the study to be published this month in the journal Science of the Total Environment.

Researchers report today that organochlorine chemicals — specifically DDT and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)-- may affect how testicles mature and function.

For four decades, from 1929 until 1971, a Monsanto plant in West Anniston produced chemicals called PCBs, polychlorinated biphenyls.

Plus, inside the two towers were heavy metals, such as lead that helps make electric cables flexible and poisons the human brain, as well as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) used in electrical transformers that are toxic on their own and become even more toxic when burned at high heat, and glass fibers that lodge in the lungs.

Along Wisconsin's Monona Bay one day this summer, a number of anglers — predominantly black — displayed a divergent understanding of the risks posed by chemicals in the fish, including mercury and industrial compounds called polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs).

Men with higher levels of DDE — a breakdown product of the pesticide DDT — and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), which were used in transistors and electronics, at 14 years old had higher rates of abnormal sperm.

(Among the banned substances are polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, which can cause cancer and liver dysfunction.)

To Stamets, that suggests it can break down toxic chlorine - based polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs.

A new study led by biologist R. Thomas Zoeller of the University of Massachusetts Amherst provides «the strongest evidence to date» that endocrine disrupting chemicals such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) found in flame retardant cloth, paint, adhesives and electrical transformers, can interfere with thyroid hormone action in pregnant women and may travel across the placenta to affect the fetus.

For the first time, long - standing villains such as pesticides, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and mercury have been linked to weakened immune systems and developmental deficits in Inuit children.

Dr Hauptmann said: «The microbial potential to degrade anthropogenic contaminants, including polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), and the heavy metals mercury and lead, was found to be widespread, and not limited to regions close to human activities.»