Sentences with phrase «dangerous levels of lead in»

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

«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.

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.

I can point to experimental evidence showing the rapid build - up of CO2 in a car with a sleeping infant and windows closed leading to rapid temperature increase and death, but we are not living in closed cars, and the atmosphere's CO2 at even 760 ppmv falls well short of the dangerous levels in that experiment (which of course said nothing about radiation).

Georgia - based Exide took over the smelter in 2000 and ramped up the volume of batteries processed at the plant — and with it, emission levels of dangerous pollutants such as lead and arsenic.

Among other things, the authors state that [1] «scientists do not know how large the greenhouse effect is, whether it will lead to a harmful amount of global warming, or (if it will) what should be done about it» (p. 560); [2] that «profound disagreements» about global warming exist within the scientific community (p. 560); [3] that so - called «activist scientists» say that the earth's climate is warming (p. 560); [4] that «science doesn't know whether we are experiencing a dangerous level of global warming or how bad the greenhouse effect Is, if it exists at all» (p. 569); [5] and that global warming is «enmeshed in scientific uncertainty» (p. 573).

«The main point is that the 2C target — which is almost out of reach now, or quickly becoming out of reach — is itself a dangerous target because it leads to a world that is greatly destabilised by rising sea levels and massive changes of climate patterns in different parts of the world,» said Professor Jeff Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, one of the PLoS paper's authors.

While the NY Public Health Law has defined lead poisoning as occurring at a level of 10 µg / dL (micrograms of lead per deciliter of whole blood) for purposes of overall health policy, the overwhelming consensus in the scientific community is that even low - dose lead exposure is dangerous for children and can cause irreversible brain damage.