Following a visit last month, the UN's Special Rapporteur on human rights and
hazardous substances said air pollution «plagues» the UK, causing an estimated 30,000 - 40,000 premature deaths a year.
Not exact matches
«It's good legislation which would give the province the right to regulate
hazardous substances, and they have some punitive measures attached if rules were broken, so we're very pleased,» he
said.
Maloney
said it is known that PFOA and PFOS are
hazardous substances; the question is what is the concentrate that is considered safe.
Bushdid
said in vitro models are gaining momentum in toxicology, which provides scientific analysis of potentially
hazardous chemicals and investigates the toxic properties of new
substances being used in consumer products and industrial settings.
The document also
says that «many essential human activities are carried out by manipulating
hazardous substances, and that progress and development have always involved increasing control over hostile forces.»
«We think some solar panels, probably the cadmium thin film type, might be
hazardous waste when shredded or disposed of in a landfill,»
said Charles Corcoran, a
hazardous substances scientist at the department.
When Ruth complained to Steve Jobs» office, she
says that an Apple employee in that office told her that «nicotine is on OSHA's list of
hazardous substances and Apple would not require an employee to repair anything deemed
hazardous to their health.»
The potential presence of known
hazardous, toxic and flammable
substances associated with clandestine labs presents an immediate and continuing risk to anyone exposed to these
substances,
says Toronto Public Health.