Sentences with phrase «danger to humans»

In this paper, the author claimed that added sugar represents such a great danger to human health that products who contain it should carry the same warning labels as alcohol.

Although many machines pose dangers to human life (think of automobiles), military drones are designed to kill human beings and so are especially dangerous.

The potential danger to human health and the environment represented by the existing substances is unknown, hence the new policy.

However, even a slowly moving car presents a significant danger to the human body.

This is the major danger to humans from litter boxes and cats in general.

This species, despite its enormous size, does not pose any significant danger to humans.

Despite their enormous size, whale sharks pose little danger to humans as they feed on tiny krill and fish spawn.

8 (1) When the Director, upon reasonable and probable grounds, is of the opinion that a source of contaminant is discharging into the natural environment any contaminant that constitutes, or the amount, concentration or level of which constitutes, an immediate danger to human life, the health of any persons, or to property, the Director may issue a stop order directed to,

Driven largely by the perception that many of the «exotic» reptiles available in the pet trade pose a clear and present danger to both humans and the ecosystems we depend on, an unprecedented amount of legislative action is threatening to end the practice of reptile - keeping altogether.

An estimated 1.1 billion people in developing countries, including Ghana, ease themselves outdoors, though the practice is considered the greatest danger to human health.

The smoke from these fires contain dangerous levels of dioxin, heavy metals and other pollutants that pose extreme dangers to human health.

Go here to help stop use of the gas chamber in Davidson County, North Carolina and find information about dangers to humans including reports of explosions and inspections revealingt gas chambers found to be leaking CO gas...

Although deer can devastate plant life when their populations grow out of control, the real danger to humans comes from the ticks they carry, said Curtis.

12 Despite the issue of a program approval or order, when the Director is of the opinion, based upon reasonable and probable grounds, that it is necessary or advisable for the protection or conservation of the natural environment, the prevention or control of an immediate danger to human life, the health of any persons or to property, the Director may issue a stop order or a control order directed to the person responsible.

Despite their immense size, whale sharks pose little danger to humans because their main source of food is tiny plankton that they strain out of the water.

The unprofessional and unethical means by which the procedure was tested, the unknown long - term medical effects on women of the drugs involved, and the extreme dangers to the human gene pool posed by partially completed medical abortions all suggest a strong societal interest in banning the «abortion cocktail.»

Areas of Kenya without large wildlife saw tick populations rise as much as 370 percent — meaning more danger to humans.

In 1987, his studies and others led the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, France, part of the World Health Organization, to classify erionite as a group 1 carcinogen — of clear danger to humans.

GMO opponents tell the story that «Franken» organisms are a new technology that poses known and unknowable dangers to human health, the environment and society at large.

The aurora was accompanied by a powerful dose of radiation that would have posed a significant danger to humans exploring the Red Planet.

Algae that are consumed by shellfish produce many toxins, and these can build up in the flesh of shellfish, posing danger to humans when they consume the shellfish (17).

The gators are not a real danger to humans now, unless someone stumbles onto a nesting female, he said, but pets are falling prey.

Fracking poses serious dangers to both human health and the environment.

The ceramic particles consist mainly of bauxite and can be used without danger to humans and the environment.

On January 26, 2016, during a public meeting organized by the Trans - Atlantic Consumer Dialogue, the European Commissioner for Trade, Cecilia Malmström, said that the precautionary principle (PP), the principle which enables rapid response in the face of a possible danger to human, animal or plant health, or to protect the environment, is a fundamental rule in the European policies and its compliance is ensured both in the legislative process and trade agreements.

(«The facts must be such that the consequences of the negligent conduct could reasonable have been foreseen and it must appear that the [death][danger to human life] was not the result of inattention, mistaken judgment or misadventure but the natural and probable result of aggravated, reckless or flagrantly negligent conduct [in order for child endangerment to have occurred].»)

Salmonella can disturb animals eating the products and there is a potential danger to humans from handling contaminated pet products, particularly if they have not methodically washed their hands after having contact with the products or any surfaces exposed to these products.

Despite their gargantuan size, whale sharks pose little danger to humans as they feed solely on microscopic plankton and fish spawn.

But it does not list foods likely to contain the highest amounts of pesticide residues nor those that pose the greatest dangers to human health.

On the other hand efforts at genetic modification of seeds, plant and animal life can lead to dangers to human life itself as seen in the recent instances of the mad cow phenomenon in Britain and the pollution of chicken meat due to the dangerous chemicals in their feed.

In 2012, the EPA lowered the primary standard for the annual average concentration of PM2.5 particulates considered safe, as more information became known about their prevalence and danger to human health.

Another man of the cloth who warns of an economy of exclusion and the dangers to the human soul of a throwaway culture where the dignity of labor is not prioritized.

«Plastic waste poses an enormous threat to wildlife, is a danger to human health and costs millions to the UK economy.

Still, even if the scientists determine BPA poses a danger to humans, what then?

Twenty property owners in Niagara Falls, Lewiston and Grand Island have filed a lawsuit charging that three companies acted with gross recklessness by directly or indirectly disposing of radioactive wastes that they knew posed a danger to human health and the environment.

However, the NRC said the leak of radioactive tritium, a naturally - occurring radioactive isotope, was minor and presented no danger to humans.

«This building has been a danger to humans for a long time,» State Sen. Adriano Espaillat said, in Spanish, during a press conference held outside the property he called a «clear and present danger.»

The pelagic thresher, Alopias pelagicus, feeds on small fish, so isn't a danger to humans.

In a story few noticed at the time, last month Greenwire obtained a copy of a PowerPoint presentation that seems to suggest that the EPA will be naming CO2 as a danger to human health under the Clean Air Act, and it will happen on Thursday.

«Respirable particles are a danger to human health, and acute exposure have been linked to respiratory illness and even death,» Stone notes.

The aim of the negotiations is laudable: to ban those mercury - laden products and pollutants that are a danger to human health and the environment.

He sees a cautionary tale about the dangers to human survival, and yet the planets he studies have made him unexpectedly bullish on life's cosmic prospects.

The Contrarian: Wendy Orent, author of Plague, says the much - hyped fears are unfounded: The new strain presents no danger to humans but reveals a great deal about the transmission of flu.

It's also unclear whether the quality of diseased fish pose a danger to humans who eat them, he says, but because they are also bred commercially, he is doubtful that diseased ones will ever make it to market.

NILU's study shows that the measured airborne concentrations of various environmental contaminants could represent a danger to human health.

Unfortunately, research is showing a link between this practice and the superbug epidemic, which poses a danger to human health.

This study shows that the scars of people recovering from surgery heal faster when Manuka honey is part of the post-operative process than when it's not, and other research points to medical - grade Manuka honey as a powerful antibacterial agent, one that has «bactericidal activity against antibiotic - resistant bacteria» that pose a danger to humans.

The film discusses the dangers to humans and the orcas who are confined in theme parks.