Sentences with phrase «direct exposure to chemicals»

Workers at the plant faced the most direct exposure to chemicals.

Insecticides and other pesticides kill honey bees, either acutely by direct exposure to the chemicals or as part of a group of stressors that kills honeybees,» he said.

In gas chambers these devices were employed in a manner specifically to cause the death of masses of persons through direct exposure to the chemical HCN.

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But the new study is among the first to show that a single exposure to the chemical can have a direct and fairly immediate impact on cardiovascular health.

«For the first time, we have shown a direct link between exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals from industrial products and adverse effects on human sperm function,» said Niels E. Skakkebaek, professor and leader of the Danish team.

Next Page: Â Activists demand cleaner cosmetics [pagebreak] Activists demand cleaner cosmetics Stacy Malkan, a cofounder of the advocacy group Campaign for Safe Cosmetics and author of Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry, says cosmetics need extra scrutiny because they are often a direct source of exposure to so many different chemicals.

Stimulating the acupuncture points helps to direct energy to your body's systems and organs that have been weakened by diseases and chronic exposure to toxic chemicals and toxic metals.

Your skin, your body's largest organ, absorbs fragrance chemicals by direct application, by contact with fragranced items, and by exposure to air containing fragrances.

The artist removes the film from its conventional context by applying different processes that range from traditional artistic techniques (painting, drawing, collage, grafitti, etching) to alternative actions such as emulsion, chemical manipulation and direct exposure of the photosensitive material to light.

While past studies have revealed that direct exposure to anthropogenic perfluorinated contaminants like PFOA and perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) isn't a serious health concern, scientists have determined that other chemicals, including fluorotelomer alcohols (FTOHs), serve as indirect exposure sources when they break down to form them.

This increased exposure for CDR approaches, which encompass both biological (e.g. afforestation, ecosystem restoration, land management, biochar, and bio-CCS) and chemical (e.g. direct air capture, enhanced mineral weathering) techniques — is a good thing for the climate change debate: we will likely need to have scalable, sustainable, cost - effective CDR systems as well as ways to reduce our emissions to avoid catastrophic climate change.

Proving that injuries or illnesses are the direct result of pollution or exposure to toxic chemicals can be a difficult process, and placing blame for that pollution can require extensive investigation.

The Nations Law firm represents thousands of BP Clean - Up workers who suffered physical injuries and illness as a direct result of their exposure to toxic chemicals during the clean - up efforts.