Sentences with phrase «focuses on contamination»

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Irena Wosk, the Coordinator of the CII - CIDA partnership on environmental technologies, said that for South India, the focus was on water supply: the depletion of aquifers and contamination of groundwater are the major issues.

The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) was created in 2011 to reinforce the U.S. food safety standards by shifting the focus of federal regulators on preventing contamination instead of just reacting to the problem after it has already happened.

This report will focus on food sanitation issues in the high volume food manufacturing environment, with particular focus on robotic automation solutions that help protect food from contamination in the «upstream processes» before it is packaged.

If providing information about informal milk - sharing is discouraged, and focus is placed on the risk of possible contamination, the more significant risk to a mother's milk supply is potentially overlooked.

Saint - Gobain has operated a plant on McCaffrey Street in Hoosick Falls since the 1990s that has been a focus of the contamination because it's near the village's water treatment plant.

While the national focus is on Flint, Mich., a USA TODAY NETWORK investigation has identified almost 2,000 additional water systems spanning all 50 states where testing has shown excessive levels of lead contamination over the past four years.

But 500 days after the contamination was confirmed, village residents say they feel like they've been shunted aside, even as their crisis spurred a focus on clean drinking water problems throughout New York.

Although the source of the contamination has not been identified, officials have focused on the Saint - Gobain Performance Plastics plant, which is located near several wells that supply Hoosick Falls» water treatment plant.

McNall's State of the County address will also focus on stepping up efforts to clean up brownfields, abandoned former industrial sites where contamination has been left behind by past owners.

Taylor's research focuses on mercury contamination in fish caught and eaten by Rhode Island's recreational anglers.

Republicans on the committee focused their questions on how Pruitt will work to prevent pollution from causing serious public health problems like the lead contamination crisis affecting Flint, Michigan, and criticized the Obama administration's climate regulations.

Even then, with a completely clean lab highly focused on meticulous technique, a new contamination struck in 2013 — something Myers identified when several different cell lines showed up with exactly the same mutation.

In addition, food inspectors don't typically test poultry and other food products for MRSA contamination and instead are focused on Salmonella and other more typical food - borne pathogens.

Fowlkes said the team will now focus on fully purifying the structures of carbon contamination.

His career work has focused on engineering research related to ginning and production of cotton, most recently measuring cotton fiber quality and contamination, and applying unmanned aerial vehicles as remote - sensing platforms for the production of cotton and other crops.

The project will focus on development of research methods to address human health risk in areas of environmental contamination in the Southwest U.S. and Buryat Republic of Russia.

To date, we have focused our efforts on testing for the two isotopes of cesium (137 and 134) because they provide the first indication of whether contamination from Fukushima is present in a sample.

Their on - site visit focused on depositional circumstances, confirmation of stratigraphy, validation of depositional context, anthropogenic reality of alleged living structures, and potential sources of carbon contamination at or near the site (Adovasio and Pedler 1997:577).

The partnerships focused on: design and cabinet building project, media promotion of vaccinations, breeding tomatoes, design of a new confectionary item for children, contamination in laboratory environments, game design and robotics, and construction of a greenhouse to support a school garden.

Focusing on U.S. Marine Corps Master Sergeant Jerry Ensminger's unrelenting efforts to expose the extreme cover - up of one of the worst cases of water contamination in U.S. history at Camp Lejune, this is an unforgettable film.

The standards focus on better well construction to minimize water contamination, but many see them as a brake on the oil and gas boom fueling the economy and energy security.

Why can't we just focus more on particulate emissions, groundwater contamination, and dozens of other issues which have clearly visible impacts on the biological world?

While public criticism has recently been focused on the possible contamination from fracking waste products, Tuesday's action stems from complaints that the gas itself had seeped into the drinking water.

Riverkeeper's regularly updated maps focus on the Lower Hudson, where people are more likely to come in contact with fecal contamination.

Attorney Seelaus focuses much of her practice on the defense of corporations in mass toxic tort cases, with an emphasis on claims involving allegations of asbestos contamination.

• Focused on ensuring that waste matter is properly disposed of, to reduce chances of contamination.