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In several studies
from Africa, sweet potatoes were found to contain between 100 - 1,600
micrograms (RAE) of vitamin A in every 3.5 ounces — enough, on average, to meet 35 % of all vitamin A needs, and in many cases enough to meet over 90 % of vitamin A needs (
from this single food alone).
They point out that 60 % of tattoo inks tested in Europe were pulled
from the market, and that a 3 - by - 5 inch tattoo can hold up to 1.23
micrograms of lead in the ink.
Separate
from the EDF's study, the EPA has reported that more than 1 million children are consuming lead levels that exceed the FDA's limit of safe lead consumption of 6
micrograms per day.
Babies
from birth to 1 year of age who are being breastfed should be given a daily supplement containing 8.5 to 10
micrograms (µg) of vitamin D to make sure they get enough.
It's recommended that babies
from birth to 1 year of age are given a daily supplement containing 8.5 to 10
micrograms (µg) of vitamin D.
DO: - Take multivitamins or prenatal vitamin with 400 - 800
micrograms of folic acid every day - Eat healthy foods such as fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and other unprocessed carbohydrates - Partake in moderate aerobic activity to keep you up your activity level - Ask questions about topics that are worrying you DO N'T: - Stay away
from raw fish or other uncooked or unwashed foods - Don't drink alcohol, smoke, or use any drugs.
Once a baby is weaned
from infant formula, a dropper of 7 - 8.5
micrograms per day can do the trick.
The sample taken
from the beach stairs in Skaneateles Lake had nearly nine times that level — 171.5
micrograms per liter.
Four years ago, the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention lowered the threshold that requires medical care for children testing positive for lead in their blood
from 10 to 5
micrograms per deciliter of blood.
Ryan is proposing it level be raised
from 10
micrograms per deciliter of blood to five.
«Many of the scientists said the threshold was too high,» Schumer said in explaining why the CDC lowered the guideline
from 10 to 5
micrograms.
«If you look at data
from around the country, it seems pretty consistent that there are around three times as many kids with 5 - 9 [
micrograms] as there are kids with greater than 10 [
micrograms],» Katrina Korfmacher, a lead poisoning prevention expert and associate professor for the Department of Environmental Medicine at University of Rochester Medical Center, wrote in an email.
The governor's health department has not provided a chart or graph showing what percentage of residents had high levels of PFOA in their blood, and only say that the results range
from negligible to over 200
micrograms per liter.
These range
from a few
micrograms (e.g. gold, indium, lutetium), or more than a milligram (e.g. zinc, scandium, yttrium, niobium, gadolinium), to more than a gram per day (e.g. phosphorus, iron, sulphur).
To prevent scar tissue
from reblocking the artery, Johnson & Johnson's new Cypher stents are coated with 180
micrograms of the drug Rapamune, a chemical first extracted
from bacteria found on Easter Island and whose name comes
from Rapa Nui, the Polynesian name for the island.
They found that as the number of fine particles less than 2.5 microns in diameter increased, so, too, did the risk of dying: each jump of 10
micrograms per cubic meter corresponded to a 11 to 17 percent increase in the risk of dying
from any cause.
Under French law, the total concentration of all compounds derived
from herbicides and pesticides should not be more than 0.5
micrograms per litre.
Initially more promising data had come
from studies of plutonium produced,
microgram by
microgram, in a cyclotron.
In the U.S. the legally required standard for air quality
from 1971 to 1987 was 75
micrograms.
That is why a major study by the US Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 1989 recommended reducing the safety limit for uranium in kidneys
from 3
micrograms per gram to 0.3
micrograms per gram.
«Many pregnant women, especially those
from minority groups with darker skin (e.g. African, African - Caribbean or South Asian), will still need to take a 10
micrograms vitamin D supplement daily, particularly in the autumn and winter when vitamin D can not be made
from the sun in the UK.»
In general, values climbed
from about 4
micrograms of free, or unbound, phenolic acids per gram of starting wheat to 8 µg / g.
Recycling lead - containing electronics — whether old car batteries or cathode - ray tubes — has led to children in the vicinity of such operations,
from China to Kenya, with lead levels as much as 10 times higher than the 10
micrograms per deciliter deemed safe by the World Health Organization.
According to Vanamala and collaborators, the mother rabbit was exposed to about 200
micrograms of BPA per kilogram of body weight each day
from day 15 of gestation until 7 days after birth, and the offspring absorbed BPA via the placenta or milk during that time.
A national survey by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
from 2001 to 2001 found that DEHP's first metabolite is present at 37.9
micrograms per liter in the 95th percentile of men, which means that just «5 percent of U.S. men had a value higher than this,» Swan said.
A typical person in the U.S. is exposed to 1 to 30
micrograms of DEHP per kilogram body weight per day
from eating, breathing or through the skin, Neese said.
After the first 12 weeks of the study, if the patient's asthma was well - controlled, the investigators cut in half the daily dose of inhaled steroid, reducing it
from 320
micrograms per day to 160.
«Unlike a lot of organic pollutants in drinking water where the regulatory limit may be in the
microgram per liter range, for NDMA, the regulatory guideline in many places ranges
from 10 nanograms per liter to 100 nanograms per liter.
«A double in the cord blood mercury concentrations (e.g. a change in the concentration
from 8 to 16
micrograms per litre) is associated to a 7.7 gram reduction in the weight of the placenta and also shows a pattern of negative association with the newborn's head circumference,» explain Mario Murcia and Ferran Ballester, co-authors of the study.
In the study, risks
from pollution exposures were reported in units of 10
micrograms per cubic metre of air.
The deposited particle mass
from 10 to 350 nanograms (a billionth of a gram) per square centimeter of cell surface corresponds to an airway daily dose of slightly polluted, rural air with 20
micrograms (a millionth of a gram) PM per cubic meter of air through to very high air pollution in a megacity (1000
micrograms PM per cubic meter of air).
Pope and his team analyzed life expectancy, economic, demographic and pollution data
from 51 metropolitan areas, and found that when fine - particle air pollution dropped by 10
micrograms per cubic meter, life expectancy rose by 31 weeks — such as in Akron, Ohio and Philadelphia.
This is tricky because these copies can lose 6 or 7
micrograms as they are transferred
from the air to a vacuum.
The mean blood lead level in 2015 during the height of the water crisis was 1.3
micrograms per deciliter, up
from 1.19 in 2014 before the water source switch.
The vapor
from dental amalgams is the primary source of the one to eight
micrograms of mercury per liter of blood, that is, according to some sources, in the average American adult.
Between 2006 and 2016, the percentage of children with blood lead levels over 5
micrograms per deciliter (the level at which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends public health actions) dropped
from 11.8 to 3.2 percent.
The study, which appears in the Journal of Pediatrics, found a decrease in Flint childhood blood lead levels,
from 2.33
micrograms per deciliter in 2006 to 1.15
micrograms per deciliter in 2016 — a historic low for the city.
Levels of cocaine ranged
from.006
micrograms to more than 1,240
micrograms — the equivalent of 50 grains of sand — on U.S. bills, and $ 5, $ 10 and $ 20 bills on average carried more contamination than $ 1 or $ 100 bills.
Blood lead levels have sharply declined among U.S. children ages 1 to 5,
from nearly 90 percent having blood lead levels above 10
micrograms per deciliter in 1976 to 8 percent in 2010 according to the 2013 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
Researchers also identified a random, unexplained increase in blood lead levels over the time period analyzed, up
from 1.75
micrograms per deciliter of children in 2010 to 1.87
micrograms per deciliter in 2011.
Within a few months, the scientists measured concentrations up to 1,500 - 2,000
micrograms per liter
from new sediment.
Ten months after the city switched
from Detroit to Flint River water, Edward's team found lead levels at a single home had reached 707
micrograms of lead per liter, nearly 20 times more than Olson's team's estimate.
One point two
micrograms of total RNA
from each cell line was reverse - transcribed using random primers and the High - Capacity cDNA Synthesis Kit (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA, USA).
Similarly, the concentrations of carbaryl also mimicked concentrations found in nature, ranging
from 0 to 50
micrograms insecticide per liter.
«The CDC continues to recommend that, to reduce their risk for a neural tube defect - affected pregnancy, women capable of becoming pregnant should take 400
micrograms of synthetic folic acid daily,
from fortified foods or supplements or a combination of the two, in addition to consuming food with folate
from a varied diet.»
The acidity
from tomatoes cause BPA to leach into food, and each liter of canned tomatoes contain 50
micrograms of BPA which is the upper exposure limit.
The recommended dosage of vitamin B12 varies depending on your age, the National Institute of Health has different measurements in
micrograms (mcg) starting
from 0.4 mcg for a baby, then small increases until the child reaches 9 - 13 years old where their intake should be 1.8 mcg (32.)
The most recent Food and Drug Administration's Total Diet Study also revealed that the U.S. population has adequate dietary iodine, with estimated average daily iodine intake ranging
from 138 to 353
micrograms per person (8).
The old values ranged
from 50
micrograms to 200
micrograms for adults.