Sentences with phrase «elevated levels of lead»

The New York City Housing Authority found elevated levels of lead in the water of some of its apartments after it conducted a random survey earlier this month, the agency's chief said.

The New York City Housing Authority found elevated levels of lead in the water of some of its apartments after it conducted a random survey earlier this month, the agency's chief said Monday.

NYC's five borough presidents called on the city Department of Education on to take stronger steps to deal with elevated levels of lead in drinking water in some schools, including offering free bottled water and blood tests for children.

A third of all vultures caught and tested in the Botswana study showed elevated levels of lead in their blood, most likely due to ingesting lead bullet - contaminated flesh.

The news comes amid a Congressional hearing investigating lead - laced tap water in Flint, Michigan as well as reports of elevated levels of lead in tap water in schools in Newark, New Jersey.

All drinking fountains in Lackawanna City Schools have been turned off and sinks have warning signs on them, after elevated levels of lead were found from a variety of sources.

As they prepared to begin testing young children for lead poisoning this week, school officials in Newark, NJ acknowledged that water in the city's schools had contained elevated levels of lead for years.

Buffalo and Erie County's North Park Branch was closed in late April 2008 when routine site preparation test results indicated elevated levels of lead dust in public areas of the building.

Elevated levels of lead caused officials in New Jersey's largest school district, Newark Public Schools, to shut off water fountains at 30 school buildings until more tests could be conducted.

According to the governor's office, facilities such as schools, which typically have intermittent water use patterns, are more likely to have elevated levels of lead due to prolonged water contact with plumbing materials.

Bottled water was distributed to residents of Flint, Michigan, after authorities discovered elevated levels of lead in the city's tap water.

One study led by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City looked at 373 sites across India, the Philippines and Indonesia, and calculated how much damage elevated levels of lead, chromium and other chemicals imparted to human health.

27 Our data demonstrating elevated levels of lead, mercury, and arsenic in publicly available Ayurvedic medicines and prior studies finding toxic metals in non-Ayurvedic supplements19 - 22 support these conclusions.

In 2000, the Kennedy Krieger Institute informed the second plaintiff's mother that her child suffered from elevated levels of lead in her blood.

Investigative Post reported Thursday that nearly 500 children in three ZIP codes comprising the West Side and a large portion of the East Side were diagnosed with elevated levels of lead in their blood for the three years ending in 2012.

One day after results from a test of drinking water at Ulster County facilities showed elevated levels of lead, Kingston officials released their own results.

On Monday, Olatoye told the City Council the agency tested the water at 175 vacant units and found elevated levels of lead at 13.

Parents of children in Lackawanna city schools received a letter yesterday informing them of elevated levels of lead in water from multiple schools.

On Wednesday, Bharara's office applied to a U.S. District Judge seeking an order compelling the city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to produce information about any individuals with elevated levels of lead in their blood living in New York City Housing Authority buildings, and any unsafe or unsanitary conditions in NYCHA apartments.

Commercial formula has been found to contain BPA from the can's lining, genetically modified ingredients, elevated levels of lead and arsenic, deficiencies in protein and certain vitamins and minerals and can cause a whole host of very serious problems.

-- because we (like pretty much every old city in North America) have elevated levels of lead in our soil.

Elevated levels of lead in drinking water extend beyond NYC kindergarten - through - 12th - grade public schools and into pre-K programs.

Elevated levels of lead were found in the Ithaca City School District and the Jordan - Elbridge School District in Onondaga County and Miner said the case of Hoosick Falls, NY is a warning to communities.

The day after results from water samples at Ulster County facilities showed elevated levels of lead, Kingston city officials released their most recent water testing results.

Seven percent of Syracuse children under the age of 6 have elevated levels of lead in their blood, according to the city, which is cause for the inspections and removal.

Tiesha started advocating for the residents of NYCHA Fort Independence Houses in 2010, after her daughter was diagnosed with an elevated level of lead poisoning at the age of four.

In May, NOVA aired «Poisoned Water,» an in - depth look at the distortion and dismissal of scientific research to support a misguided policy that exposed thousands of residents of Flint, Michigan to elevated levels of lead in their drinking water.

She found that twice as many children tested positive for elevated levels of lead after the switch to Flint River water.

After the Department of Environmental Protection found elevated levels of lead, 30 public schools in Newark, N.J., shut down their water fountains.

If a significant number of children have elevated levels of lead in their blood, the health department will develop...

According to the EPA, 900,000 children in the United States have elevated levels of lead in their blood.

According to the press release from ETBC, «Eighty percent of children in Guiyu, China, a region where many «recycled» electronics wind up, have elevated levels of lead in their blood, due to the toxins in those electronics, much of which originates in the U.S..

Michele Obama's White House Garden sets an example for not letting a little lead scare people away: although soil tests showed elevated levels of lead, the contamination risk does not outweigh the benefits of healthy, locally raised vegetables (and that is not even counting the health benefits of activity in the garden!)

The Housing Authority had a 1992 letter from the plaintiff's doctor stating that she had elevated levels of lead in her blood, but it was not enough to put the Housing Authority on notice that there was a problem with lead paint in its residential housing.

Please keep an eye on any dust that might be created where areas rub - we renovated an old home and after discovering lead paint took both our children to the Dr. - they both had elevated levels of lead in their systems - fortunately we were able to do the chelation with diet instead of meds.