Sentences with phrase «dangerous lead levels»

The couple's suit alleges the realtors were negligent and «should have known», based upon the condition of the home, that the family was being exposed to dangerous lead levels.

In addition to dangerous lead levels, the Flint River also may have had more pollution than Lake Huron: Soon after the switch, E. coli bacteria were found, prompting advisories to boil the water.

The Environmental Protection Agency puts the threshold for dangerous lead levels at 300 parts per million.

It would also be used to hire a nurse dedicated to managing cases of children with lower - but - still - dangerous lead levels of lead poisoning that fall below 10 - microgram threshold.

Buffalo continues to have a lead poisoning crisis — hundreds of children were diagnosed with dangerous lead levels again last year — but you wouldn't know it by City Hall's slow rollout of its plan to deal with the problem.

«I am deeply concerned fruit with dangerous lead levels could be served in hospitals, aged care homes or prisons and also concerned that if we lose our last fruit processor Australian customers may also no longer have a choice to buy Australian tinned fruit.»

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Following last Friday night's coordinated missile attack by a coalition of U.S., U.K. and French forces against Syrian chemical weapons facilities, there was a high level of consternation about whether the barrage of targeted airstrikes would escalate into a dangerous and wide - ranging military engagement between the Assad - led Syrian government backers (Russia, Iran, Hezbollah) and NATO forces.

Increased lead levels in food are particularly dangerous for young children and pregnant women.

While the lead levels found in baby food in the EDF report did not exceed the FDA limit, both the EDF and EPA note that there is really no known safe level of lead in the blood, so any consumption by children is considered to be dangerous.

Also, the National Institutes of Health estimates that roughly 20 million artificial trees in U.S. homes are at least nine years old — that's when they typically start to deteriorate and give off possibly dangerous levels of lead dust.

Research into baby food has revealed that many types on the market contain levels of lead that could be dangerous for children to consume.

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.

Women with PCOS often develop small, fluid - filled cysts on their ovaries (hence the name), which are not dangerous but lead to higher levels of male hormones in the body.

Low blood sugar levels before bed can lead to hypoglycemia, a condition that can go unrecognized in the night and become dangerous.

Amazingly, nearly one - third of toys tested in the US reportedly have medium to high levels of lead, cadmium, mercury, and other potentially dangerous chemicals.

Some 1,000 children in Buffalo are diagnosed every year with dangerous levels of lead in their blood.

No one knows how many of them have dangerous levels of lead in their blood.

In 2012, the CDC lowered the blood lead level it considered dangerous.

The New York crisis follows last year's water crisis in Flint, Mich., over dangerous levels of lead in the city's drinking water.

After all, more than 90 percent of the children in Erie County testing for dangerous levels of lead in their blood reside in Buffalo.

For example, more than 90 percent of the children in Erie County testing for dangerous levels of lead in their blood live in Buffalo.

Inspections have turned up numerous instances of dangerous lead - paint levels in the city's public housing.

But the crisis in Flint, where dangerous levels of lead were found in drinking water in February 2015, has raised serious questions about water quality in cities like Buffalo that have older infrastructure.

The bill comes just days after leaders of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades reported that there were dangerous levels of lead in paint chips falling from the No. 7 line in Queens.

Indeed, the lead situation in Syracuse has similarities to the ongoing situation in Flint, Michigan, where a change in the source of drinking water and a lack of preventative measures resulted in a dangerous increase in blood lead levels for residents.

Cuomo says it's a dangerous product that can lead to unsafe levels of intoxication by improperly mixing it or ingesting the powder.

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.

This leads to increased levels of haze, a dangerous trend confirmed by other NASA satellite instruments, Dickerson said.

The drug interaction interfered with drug metabolism and led to an accumulation of Seldane to dangerous levels.

THERE are grave flaws in a study which claims that replacing conventional cars with electric vehicles will expose people to dangerous levels of lead, according to industry and environmental groups.

As early as 1967, French scientists observed potentially dangerous levels of lead in the blood of people who drank a lot of wine.

Coupled with selenium deficiency, one can understand that excessive iodine intake can lead to dangerous levels of hydrogen peroxide production.

Drinking lots of water during a very long race in the heat, for example — this can even lead to a dangerous condition called hyponatremia, where blood sodium levels drop too low.

No doubt, many more water samples showed levels of lead that were also dangerous, but since they were below the EPA's action level, the water utility did not have to report them.

The end result of these two mechanisms is that much more of the statin drug enters the systemic circulation than would normally be the case, leading to a build up in statin levels that can be quite dangerous, and may trigger a rare but serious statin - associated disease called rhabdomyolysis.

To put that number in perspective, even the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says lead levels in water exceeding 15 ppb are very dangerous and must be acted upon.

Though technically not an antioxidant, B12 helps protect the DNA of our cells while keeping in check dangerous homocysteine levels that can lead to harmful inflammation.

Omega XTS is made in a FDA - inspected facility and molecularly distilled using state - of - the - art vacuum technology that removes dangerous environmental toxins like mercury, lead and PCBs to undetectable levels.

Other studies have found that NSAID use during long events, such as a marathon or triathlon, actually decreases kidney function, which can lead to very dangerous issues during exercise, including a decreased ability to properly regulate your sodium and electrolyte status and your hydration levels (27).

That's because these powders contain highly concentrated ingredients, and if the ingredients were grown with pesticides or other chemicals, you could end up consuming concentrated levels of lead, arsenic or other dangerous heavy metals.

He landed a few leads on the indie circuit, but his starring performance as «Gong Show» host Chuck Barris in George Clooney's «Confessions of a Dangerous Mind» really took things to the next level for him in 2002.

As Mark Blois from Browne Jacobson LLP explains in his session, the key to being comfortable with legal duties is to have access to just the right level of information: a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing, but too much information can sometimes lead to paralysis.

By doubling up on losing positions, you're exposing your trading account to dangerous levels of drawdown that can lead to a blown account.

«These unsubstantiated allegations stem from a single lawsuit filed against us by a single plaintiff who claims that levels of lead were found in three of our products that could be dangerous to pet health.

This ingredient overstimulates your dog's central nervous system and heart, which is highly dangerous as it can lead to seizures, dangerously high levels of blood pressure, and ultimately death in the case of some dogs.

It only takes minutes to reach dangerous levels leading to heatstroke and even death.

The idea (quoted in the United Nations Environmental Programme report) that in order to be reasonably sure of avoiding dangerous and potentially irreversible climate change, a minimum of a 50 % cut in global emissions compared with 1990 levels is required by 2050, is based firmly on the IPCC - led consensus, contrary to the impression you appear to have.

As intriguing a concept as it is, a «tipping point» is less useful if poorly defined quantitatively or largely unknown, as apparently is the case with two key examples that you cite: thermohaline circulation and substantial melting of ice sheets leading to «dangerous» sea level rise.

In early 2016, Michigan Republican Gov. Rick Snyder declared a state of emergency in the majority black city of Flint over the dangerous levels of lead in the drinking water — more than a year after concerns about the water were initially raised.

But a new draft study being published this week by a team of 17 leading international climate scientists warns that even 2 degrees of warming is «highly dangerous» and could cause sea level rise of «at least several meters» this century, leaving most of the world's coastal cities uninhabitable.