Sentences with phrase «chemicals tested on»

She finished her degree in biochemistry and went to work at a toxicology laboratory associated with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, Washington, analyzing chemicals tested on animals.

New experimental models based on three - dimensional reconstructions of human skin are helping to reduce chemical testing on live animals, but can not yet replace animals altogether

Chemical testing on the biological and environmental samples was done by four OPCW - designated labs in Finland, Germany, Sweden, and Switzerland.

«Dr. Walter Anthony had already run chemical tests on the methane from one of the lakes, dating the carbon molecules within the gas to 30,000 years ago.

Not exact matches

The company faced criticism in The Wall Street Journal after two independent lab tests conducted on behalf of the newspaper found sodium lauryl sulfate — one of the chemicals the company promises that its products are free of — in The Honest Co.'s laundry detergent.

Then we have eugenics programs, testing of chemicals and radiation on unsuspecting civilians, slavery, women having no right other than to shut up and stay in the kitchen, children working in factories... I'm not seeing where we were doing all that well when we were supposedly so Godly.

It's hard to understand a culture that encourages violence against women, violence against their neighbours, violence and hatred against other nations, suicide bombings, stoning people to death, so called «honor killings», chemical and biological weapons testing on prisoners, and a long list of other «not so nice» practices.

When tested for pesticide residue, strawberries have an average of 45 different chemical compounds lingering on their surface.

This testing determines how your product interacts with various flexible packaging structures, and will help with identifying adverse effects that a product has on flexible packaging materials, such as chemical degradation or delamination.

In a letter to OEHHA opposing the listing of 4 - MEI, Dr. Ernest E. McConnell, former Director of the National Toxicology Program's Toxicology Research and Testing Program, wrote: «NTP has not included 4 - MEI on its list of chemicals causing cancer; i.e., the Report on Carcinogens.»

Currently in Australia, cosmetics (broadly defined as skin, hair, beauty, personal, baby, men's, candles — basically any product that you find on the cosmetics floor of a department store) contain chemicals that have mostly never been tested for safety and that are used in cosmetics on the basis they are safe until proven otherwise.

Down here in NZ the Ministry of Primary Industries has released a new standard to define manuka honey, this is based on a 5 point chemical / DNA test and the result specifies if the honey is NZ manuka, and if it is multifloral or mono.

On behalf of the Rainforest Alliance, they are training tea estate workers and smallholder farmers to adopt simple, time - tested methods that safeguard soil health and water quality and protect workers from dangerous chemical exposure.

Yes, we are certified vegan by Vegan Action and free of animal or animal by - products including flesh, bones, dairy, eggs, honey, fur, leather, wool, down feathers, and cosmetics or chemical products tested on animals.

Partners Sun Chemical and Eastman tested SunLam on labels made with Eastman Embrace LV copolyester.

As part of the very first audit that takes place on a farm, auditors test the soil for chemical residue.

These fruits and vegetables tested positive for a number of chemical pesticide residues, showing higher concentrations of pesticides than other produce on the market.

Despite the name, a chemical pregnancy is not a false pregnancy or a false positive on a pregnancy test.

They based their findings on chemical test results.

BPA is only one of thousands of synthetic chemicals on the market that either have no safety testing data or have failed safety tests.

I'm wondering... when safety tests were done for medications (like antibiotics, PPIs, NSAIDs), novel food additives, agricultural chemicals, etc... did anybody demonstrate that these things do NOT have a negative impact on the microbiome?

Chemicals and plastics are often tested on their own, not taking the cocktail effect in consideration.

But most of the thousands of chemicals on the market are not tested for safety by anyone other than the manufacturer, and they are not regulated to protect a developing baby.

Cherish — Beauty by Nature is an all natural essential oils skin care range that is not tested on animals and that is without any toxic ingredients, additives and chemicals.

There are multiple products from The Body Shop I love — why, yes, my kids and I have all been using this skin clearing clay mask for years — but my favorite part is that they never test on animals or use scary chemicals.

Many countries require testing on plastics looking for the banned chemicals BPA and phthalates but are not testing for chemicals that have estrogenic activity.

This test will measure four different chemicals in your blood, and can pick up on certain genetic abnormalities.

Chemical pregnancy: Sometimes a pregnancy can be detected or indicated by a pregnancy test early on — and then followed by consecutive negative results.

It has trained genocidal paramilitaries, it has funded tyrannical murderers, it has invaded and privatised and tested chemicals on the people of Latin America.

In what is good news for the Vermont Fire Academy in Pittsford, state tests for a toxic chemical in water sources on and around the site have come up with no detectable levels.

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in a letter on Tuesday called on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to offer blood testing for the chemical PFOS in the city of Newburgh.

Because they are used on food, pesticides are among the most thoroughly tested chemicals in the world.

A recent round of state tests on 145 water wells in the town of Hoosick and village of Hoosick Falls showed slightly less than a third indicated a presence of a toxic chemical at levels exceeding the safety threshold recently set by the Environmental Protection Agency.

HOOSICK FALLS — State officials said on Friday that they did not test water in Petersburgh for the toxic chemical PFOA in 2014, even though a state employee privately raised the possibility of its presence in the water supply, because it was not on federal regulation lists.

Three New York lawmakers — Schumer, U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney — are calling on the federal Environmental Protection Agency to immediately test the city of Newburgh's water supply, which has been found to be contaminated with a toxic chemical.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday the state has no plans to conduct blood tests on residents in the city of Newburgh, where thousands may have been exposed to a toxic chemical linked to cancer, unless «the facts justify it.»

Assembly education chair Cathy Nolan had told POLITICO on Tuesday she didn't think the measure would pass this session due to questions on funding and the need to look at testing for other chemicals, citing the PFOA crisis in Hoosick Falls.

In the wake of the closing of a Bronx schools contaminated with a toxic chemical, two advocacy groups and eight members of the City Council have written to Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott demanding immediate testing of city school on leased property and a public disclosure of he results.

On Thursday, Gov. Peter Shumlin of Vermont announced that wells in North Bennington — just east of Hoosick Falls — had also tested positive for the chemical.

Now, testing the fifth and sixth generation of the birds, Jensen and his colleagues have looked more deeply into these traits, focusing on metabolism, feeding efficiency, and body chemicals involved in boldness.

He thinks the motor will eventually pump fluids through minuscule lab - on - a-chip devices that could perform diagnostic tests and turn gears in nanoscale electric circuits that detect chemicals.

With between 80,000 and 150,000 different synthetic chemicals manufactured regularly, it might be too much to expect that a small number of laboratory tests could be used to judge their effect on humans.

«We're showing the current products only remove about half of the sulfite based on our initial testing,» said Maddie Lyda, an undergraduate senior in chemical engineering working on the project in Shiflett's group.

«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.

Sheela Sathyanarayana, a University of Washington pediatrician who studies effects of environmental chemicals on male development, said the new study provides strong evidence that the testing should be expanded to more chemicals.

Drug developers often rely on in vitro cell - based microchips to test promising new chemical compounds.

They put glass jars on top of the area and tested for carbon dioxide enriched with carbon - 13 — an indicator that the soil contained bugs that metabolize the chemical.

The agency has ordered testing on just 200 compounds and restricted or banned only five since it gained the authority to regulate new chemicals in 1976 under the Toxic Substances Control Act.

In March the agency introduced a $ 4 million, six - ton screening robot called Tox21 that is on track to test 10,000 chemicals over the next two years for just a few hundred dollars each, says EPA biologist Bob Kavlock.

The panel, which was commissioned by U.K. science minister David Sainsbury in July 2003, concluded that nanoparticles and nanotubes should be treated as new chemicals and their impacts on health and the environment be tested under existing U.K. and E.U. legislation.