Sentences with phrase «federal health advisories»
The Suffolk County fire academy in Yaphank, used for training volunteer firefighters, is now on the state's Superfund list after water samples from monitoring wells detected contaminants that exceed federal health advisories.
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Federal health officials issued their first Zika - related travel advisory for the U.S. mainland on Monday, recommending that pregnant women and those who plan to become pregnant avoid a Miami neighborhood where the virus has been spreading.
The advisory council is being led by former Ontario health minister Eric Hoskins, who resigned from his post in the provincial legislature the day before the federal budget.
Among other points of contention, health department employees dismissed an advisory limit for human consumption of PFOA set by the federal Environmental Protection Agency, and argued that their differences with the federal authorities were a matter of «philosophy» and not just science, according to a senior EPA official's handwritten notes from a phone conference with state officials.
EPA Region 2 Administrator Judith Enck said the federal agency had a health advisory in place since 2009 recommending that PFOA in water supplies not exceed 400 parts per trillion for short - term exposure, which would be weeks or months.
This is 10 ng / ml above the level recommended in 2010 by the Institute of Medicine, now part of The National Academies, a health advisory group to the federal government.
McCabe has in fact become one of the federal government's top advisers on these matters since the secretary of Health and Human Services tapped him last December to head the department's advisory committee on genetics, health, and soHealth and Human Services tapped him last December to head the department's advisory committee on genetics, health, and sohealth, and society.
Readers who follow health and science news may feel a little tipsy given the «see - saw» effect that several stories have demonstrated over the past year: First, a federal health - advisory panel announced last November that mammograms might do more harm than good for women before age 50.
Federal physical education website, produced via the Council, which is appointed by the President and serve in an advisory capacity through the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Administrative Coordinator for the [company name] Web and Communications team in conjunction with providing onsite administrative support to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), acting as intermediary between teams and federal advisory committee
Lyn sits on a number of Federal Government expert advisory and reference groups concerned with mental health policy and service delivery.
The Federal government requires each State to maintain a mental health planning and advisory council (MHPAC) that advocates for adults with serious mental illnesses and for children with emotional disturbances, as well as monitor and review the State's mental health services each year.