Sentences with phrase «by lead contamination»

Children in Kosovo refugee camps were also made terribly ill by lead contamination in water, thanks to a nearby industrial mine that the UN Interim Administration in Kosovo chose to ignore (and for which it is now being asked to pay compensation and apologize).

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Rather than fearing contamination by the «other,» Catholicism habitually attempts to consecrate whatever can be consecrated within its own sacred story, even when it leads to substantial adjustments in that story.

While APHIS maintains that contamination is unlikely, they contradict their own conclusion by determining that glyphosate tolerant alfalfa deregulation will lead to a shift to larger farms as alfalfa producers seek more land to avoid contamination.

Contamination of traditional crops and food systems by under - quality GM seeds are leading to loss of genetic purity, environmental problems and health concerns.

In addition to the risks posed by not having breastmilk's protective qualities, breastmilk substitutes and feeding bottles in particular carry a high risk of contamination that can lead to life - threatening infections in young infants.

Some of the formula recalls in the last few years have been triggered by the discovery of high levels of phytoestrogen hormones, high levels of aluminum and lead, bacterial contamination, unsanitary production linked to gastrointestinal illness, salmonella, and glass particles mixed in with the powder Researchers in the Netherlands found dangerous bacteria, which can cause meningitis and sepsis, in 52.5 percent of the formula samples they cultured from 35 countries.

These babies are also vulnerable to the risk of infectious disease from bacterial and viral contamination of such milk, which was identified in a prior study by the same research team led by Nationwide Children's Hospital.

The food should also be kept in sealed containers to avoid contamination that may lead to food poisoning.You should avoid using the room temperature to thaw frozen baby food by leaving out the food on the kitchen counter.

Woodhall Stopford, MD, MSPH, of Duke University Medical Center, one of the nation's leading experts in mercury contamination, reviewed the results of total mercury testing of samples of high fructose corn syrup conducted by Eurofins Central Analytical Laboratory (Metairie, LA) in February and March 2009.

As reported by Gothamist, the Department of Health announced it plans to inspect and test for lead contamination.

Republican Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin on Tuesday questioned why the Democratic - led Assembly is yet to hold hearings on water quality issues around the state, first proposed earlier this year after the village of Hoosick Falls's municipal water supply was impacted by a chemical contamination.

TICONDEROGA Contractors who deal with lead contamination can get some help from a free class sponsored by PRIDE of Ticonderoga.

Sections of Harris Field, a heavily - used park sandwiched between Bronx High School of Science and Lehman College, were found to have four times the federally - established legal limit of lead contamination for public play areas, according to documents obtained by the Norwood News with the help of the nonprofit New York City Park Advocates.

Marc Edwards — Dr. Edwards was recognized by AAAS for his efforts to apply his engineering expertise to revealing dangerous levels of lead contamination in water supplies in Flint, Michigan.

The gas industry — led by the Canadian company EnCana, which owns the wells in Pavillion — has denied that its activities are responsible for the contamination.

«It is very clear that industrial lead contamination was pervasive throughout Antarctica by the late 19th century, more than two decades before the first explorers made it to the South Pole,» he added.

In the samples studied by the scientists, there are also high levels of atmospheric contamination from lead during the Roman Empire, when large quantities of this metal were extracted in the south of the Iberian Peninsula, as well as during the past 300 years, coinciding with the Industrial Revolution and the reactivation of mining activity in southern Spain.

Ewing's Russian colleagues, led by Alexander Novikov of the Russian Academy of Sciences, sampled the groundwater taken from wells up to four kilometers from the scene of original contamination, where radioactivity levels reach roughly 1,000 becquerels (nuclei decaying per second) per liter.

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 site proposed for Audubon's temporary campus has lead contamination in the soil of the playground area exceeding federal standards by 10 times or more, prompting some parents to insist the entire site have the lead removed before their children arrive next fall.

Still, if wanted to see which schools have higher risk factors for lead contamination, we'd compare schools by the age and type of their plumbing.

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.

In recent years the city has been plagued by a water crisis stemming from lead contamination in Flint's water supply.

Lead Toxicity Summit: A Public Health Crisis (theatre, 2nd floor) 12:30 pm: Dr. David K. Rosner presentation on the politics of public health and the sociological history of lead contamination (Theater, 2nd Floor) 1 - 2 pm: Panel led by NLE's Raquel de Anda on lead poisoning with activists from NYC and Flint, Michigan, featuring Claire McClinton (Flint Democracy Defense -LSB-Lead Toxicity Summit: A Public Health Crisis (theatre, 2nd floor) 12:30 pm: Dr. David K. Rosner presentation on the politics of public health and the sociological history of lead contamination (Theater, 2nd Floor) 1 - 2 pm: Panel led by NLE's Raquel de Anda on lead poisoning with activists from NYC and Flint, Michigan, featuring Claire McClinton (Flint Democracy Defense -LSB-lead contamination (Theater, 2nd Floor) 1 - 2 pm: Panel led by NLE's Raquel de Anda on lead poisoning with activists from NYC and Flint, Michigan, featuring Claire McClinton (Flint Democracy Defense -LSB-lead poisoning with activists from NYC and Flint, Michigan, featuring Claire McClinton (Flint Democracy Defense -LSB-...]

Failure to identify contamination of the sedimentary record by allochtonous foram tests, will lead to false water depth estimations for the sediments that host the forams.

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.

But concern over the contamination of fish by mercury and other environmental toxins has led the FDA to warn pregnant women and nursing mothers to restrict their fish intake.

Western lawmakers were floored by Friday's decision, pointing to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy's numerous assurances that the agency would take responsibility for the damage caused by the EPA - led crew, which unleashed 3 million gallons of mustard - colored contamination into the Animas and San Juan rivers and three states.»

Misrepresentation of statistics leads to incorrect conclusions, and «contamination» by external factors caused the data to represent aspects other than those under investigation.

For example, human processes play a major role in virtually every major metal cycle, leading to atmospheric and direct contamination of terrestrial and aquatic environments by trace - metal pollutants.

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.

Claimant awarded # 35,000 due to a negligent failure to identify bowel obstruction prior to perforation, followed by a delay in undertaking surgery which in turn led to widespread contamination of the peritoneal cavity.

The violations allegedly committed by American Masonry include lack of a written lead compliance program, failure to provide facilities that would prevent lead contamination of a worker's street clothes, failure to remove dangerous lead dust from the building site, and failure to implement a respirator or medical surveillance program.

The pork and horsemeat claimants can say that there is a risk that contamination will lead to misdescription and thus to unwitting consumption by those who are particularly concerned about such matters.

The ongoing lead poisoning crisis in Flint, Michigan has shown not all water systems are safe from contamination — and, in fact, a recent analysis from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) found around 77 million Americans are served by water systems with violations of the Safe Drinking Water Act.

This policy does not cover the pre-existing conditions that may lead to cancer (pre-cancerous or related conditions), cancer contributed by sexually transmitted diseases or cancer caused by alcohol or nuclear contamination.

If the injury leading to death occurred while the deceased was in the process of working on or repairing a car; doing certain commercial work or work for charge as defined in the specifics of the mandatory car insurance policy; died as a result of suicide, died as a result of war, nuclear reaction, or contamination; died as a result of being struck by a railroad car or a farm tractor; or died as a result of injuries sustained while racing, there is generally no coverage on these types of policies.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt is taking action to address lead contamination across America by inviting his colleagues and fellow Cabinet members to join with EPA in developing a federal strategy to reduce childhood lead exposure.