Sentences with phrase «high amounts of lead»

Even more troubling is the increase in the number of city children who recently tested positive for higher amounts of lead that require some form of intervention by health officials.

Individuals at firing ranges are exposed to very high amounts of lead from shooting firearms, and exposure is as high at outdoor firing ranges as it is at indoor ranges.

While that may be true due to Buffalo's old housing stock, the school district did find high amounts of lead in drinking water at schools in October.

Some ceramic dishes made outside the United States contain high amounts of lead and shouldn't be used by people or animals.

However, homes built after 1986 can be at risk too, because brass pipes, plumbing devices and faucets can have high amounts of lead as well.

When young children crawl and climb around their houses and then put their hands in their mouth or eat with their hands, they can be unknowingly ingesting high amounts of lead.

To get an idea of just how absurd this 0.5 mcg limitation is, consider that almost everyone is exposed to far higher amounts of lead than this in the normal course of their daily lives.

In one Flint neighborhood with especially high amounts of lead in the water, the proportion of kids with lead poisoning had tripled from 5 percent to almost 16 percent.

Look out for lead Thanks to the widespread use of leaded gasoline in past decades, women 40 and up have high amounts of lead in their bones, says Ellen Silbergeld, PhD, a toxicology expert at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Recent accounts of toys made in China that contain high amounts of lead are not the only problem.

Depending on where it is extracted from, it may also have a high amount of lead and other similar heavy metals.

Exposure to high amounts of lead has been linked to hormone disruption, behavioral problems, learning disabilities, and numerous health problems.»

Through a holistic doctor, we discovered a high amount of lead in my body through a challenge test.

Exposure to high amounts of lead has been linked to hormone disruption, behavioral problems, learning disabilities, and numerous health problems.»