Sentences with phrase «chemicals affect human health»

Our platform is designed to emulate human biology more accurately than current cell culture or animal models, and we are currently working with a diverse group of partners to test the way drugs, foods, and chemicals affect human health.

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«This underlines the glaring problem that many of the chemicals that are most widely used today, including pesticides, are simply not adequately tested and may have serious long - term impacts on health and development,» said Barrett, who studies how environmental chemicals affect human reproduction.

Paul D. Blanc, a professor of medicine and author of How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace, discusses how hazardous chemicals in consumer products affect human health

The samples produced evidence of 57 different chemicals, 45 of which they believe have some potential for affecting human health.

Emulate Inc. is a private company that creates living products for understanding how diseases, medicines, chemicals, and foods affect human health.

This publication is a systematic, objective review of documented types and rates of hydrofracturing - fluid - and chemical - related incidents affecting human health, to date, in the region of the Marcellus Shale Play.

Bess Marcus, dean of Brown's School of Public Health, said faculty and students within the school are dedicated to finding answers to questions about how to mitigate the climatic factors and environmental chemicals that affect human hHealth, said faculty and students within the school are dedicated to finding answers to questions about how to mitigate the climatic factors and environmental chemicals that affect human healthhealth.

Emulate, Inc. is a privately held company that creates living products for understanding how diseases, medicines, chemicals, and foods affect human health.

Based on our Organs - on - Chips technology, we're creating a new living system that emulates human biology — for understanding how different diseases, medicines, chemicals and foods affect human health.

If your health isn't a big enough motivator, consider that plastic chemicals have been found under 20 feet of ice in the antarctic (where there is no human habitation or waste) and that many animal species are also being affected by our plastic waste.

These chemicals affect our health in different ways, and one class of chemicals called phthalates may affect human metabolism and weight, specifically.

A lot of chemicals that we put into the environment, most of which we know very little about, how they affect human health.

Recalling the concern reflected in the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, entitled «The future we want», 1 that the health of oceans and marine biodiversity are negatively affected by marine pollution, including marine debris, especially plastic, persistent organic pollutants, heavy metals and nitrogen - based compounds, from numerous marine and land - based sources, and the commitment to take action to significantly reduce the incidence and impacts of such pollution on marine ecosystems, Noting the international action being taken to promote the sound management of chemicals throughout their life cycle and waste in ways that lead to the prevention and minimization of significant adverse effects on human health and the environment, Recalling the Manila Declaration on Furthering the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities adopted by the Third Intergovernmental Review Meeting on the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities, which highlighted the relevance of the Honolulu Strategy and the Honolulu Commitment and recommended the establishment of a global partnership on marine litter, Taking note of the decisions adopted by the eleventh Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on addressing the impacts of marine debris on marine and coastal biodiversity, Recalling that the General Assembly declared 2014 the International Year of Small Island Developing States and that such States have identified waste management among their priorities for action, Noting with concern the serious impact which marine litter, including plastics stemming from land and sea - based sources, can have on the marine environment, marine ecosystem services, marine natural resources, fisheries, tourism and the economy, as well as the potential risks to human health; 1.

«UOG operations release large amounts of reproductive, immunological, and neurological toxicants, carcinogens as well as endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) into the environment that may negatively affect human health.»