Sentences with phrase «high levels of lead»

Between 2007 and 2014, the percent of children with high levels of lead in the three worst zip codes dropped by more than 40 %.

Chinese - made toys came under attack a few years ago for having high levels of lead paint — and more than nine million of them were recalled.

I performed tests, finding her good and bad estrogen levels were disproportionate (more bad than good), and that she had an extremely high level of lead in her system.

The researchers observed higher levels of lead in children with autism throughout development, with the greatest disparity observed during the period following birth.

Follow - up water testing revealed that samples contained relatively high levels of lead.

Young children, when exposed to high levels of lead in house dust, are particularly vulnerable.

Unfortunately, the bracelet was made with lead beads that contained high levels of lead — 17,000 ppm.

Edwards also provided examples of public agencies and state and local governments hiding incidents of high levels of lead in water without accountability across the United States, creating a false sense of security amongst people in cities.

More results released from two Ithaca elementary schools» lead testing show high levels of lead in various sinks and drinking fountains.

The recent EPA study found that in 12 of 13 homes where there had been construction or a disturbance in the water line between 2005 and 2011, there were dangerously high levels of lead in the water.

On a recent summer day, Chief Operating Officer Ben Reyes summons her to his office to help respond to a local television reporter who claims to have found high levels of lead paint on the playground equipment at an elementary school.

Some 466 children in Erie County, most of them living in Buffalo, tested for high levels of lead in their blood in 2017, the report said.

The rate per 1,000 children, aged 1 to 5, who have been confirmed with high levels of lead in their blood has been on a mostly consistent decline from about nine per 1,000 children in 2001 to roughly six per 1,000 last year.

Now researchers from the Center for Public Health and the Institute of Medical Genetics at MedUni Vienna have shown that this practice can also be detrimental to health: pregnant women who consume particular types of soil display higher levels of lead contamination — as do their babies.

The governor of Michigan, Rick Snyder, recently declared a state of emergency after high levels of lead were found in the town of Flint's water supply.

Patch article on BP Adams penning a joint letter with his fellow borough presidents to demand action on high levels of lead in the water of some city schools.

Chemical analyses of Wainman's bones showed high levels of lead exposure, a sign that he was wealthy, as more valuable items during this time, such as pewter and glazed wares, contained more lead.

Our «open science» research collaboration with Flint residents revealed high levels of lead, Legionella and damage to potable water infrastructure due to a failure to implement corrosion control treatment.

Items sold in the dollar stores sometimes bypass U.S. approval, which as we pointed out earlier, could mean high levels of lead and other chemicals.

30 April 2018 A California lawsuit alleges high levels of lead in spices manufactured by Spice Supreme's parent company, but the data underlying that legal challenge is not public.

A recent study from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency shows much higher levels of lead in the running water than previously thought.

Back in early June, the ELF filed Notices of Violation under California's Prop 65, alleging that its own testing showed impermissibly high levels of lead in a variety of children's food products like apple juice, grape juice, packaged pears and peaches (including baby food) and fruit cocktail.

Elizabethtown - Lewis Central is taking action to remediate the 10 sites found to contain high levels of lead following test results received on Nov. 15.

The issue revolves around high levels of lead in drinking water and a 2007 paper in Environmental Health Perspectives that claimed «no identifiable public health impact» had resulted.

Kettles showed leaching to be well within the CoE specified release limit, however coffee machines showed in some cases alarmingly high levels of lead, especially post-decalcification, one particular machine giving results 150 times the recommended limit.

This is why there are exemptions in Prop 65 for natural foods like Brussels Sprouts, collard greens, and nuts, which naturally contain moderately high levels of lead and would have to show many times the «safe» level of lead on their labels.

Then based on the tests I had been asked to take in preparation for my appointment (perhaps with the help of the information I also had provided), Dr. Hyman told me I had a leaky gut, very high levels of lead and mercury, a gluten intolerance, homocysteinemia, a cryptosporidium and a variety of vitamin and mineral deficiencies.

Research has tied high levels of lead in the blood to such serious problems as criminal activity and low IQ.

Morris Animal Foundation - funded researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society recently documented high levels of lead from spent shot that had accumulated in heavily hunted Argentinian wetlands.

Studies conducted in the early 2000s revealed startlingly high levels of lead in decorative paint in more than 30 developing countries — showing lead levels routinely above 600 parts per million (ppm), and often higher than 10,000 ppm.

Following a suggestion from a plant manager that it could be lead poisoning, doctors tested the baby's blood and found that he had acutely high levels of lead, which had likely been passed along via his mother's breast milk.

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And pockets of Flint still show unacceptably high levels of lead.

When owners of affected properties meet the standard, they're entitled to tort immunity if a child living in the property develops a specified high level of lead in the blood and the owner subsequently makes a «qualified offer.»

Following the discovery of high levels of lead in the water in Newark's schools, New York City is unveiling a website where parents can track the results of lead testing in its schools.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Assemblyman Sean Ryan is alarmed by the number of children across the state who have dangerously high levels of lead in their blood.

Rentals are targeted because the study found 80 percent of the children in Buffalo who test positive for high levels of lead in their blood live in rental properties.

February's announcement explicitly mentioned the village in the same sentence as Flint, Michigan, where government malfeasance allowed thousands of people to drink water with high levels of lead.

Just days after Gov. Cuomo signed a bill requiring lead testing in schools, three water sources in a Vorheesville elementary school have been shut down after high levels of lead were found.

He added, «You hear the stories of what's happening in Flint and you also read the reports that we get here that kids have higher levels of lead exposure in Buffalo, Lackawanna, the City of Tonawanda than kids in Flint.

Other recalls were due to spindles loosening and detaching, posing dangers of falls and entrapment; paint containing high levels of lead; and chipping paint posing a choking hazard.

The money will reimburse the state for expenses incurred when Glen Ellyn submitted the samples, which showed high levels of lead.

Addressing the audience in the aftermath of the discovery of high levels of lead in the water system of Flint, Michigan, Edwards framed his presentation in terms of water infrastructure inequality in the United States, including lack of access to both adequate quantities of water and to water of safe quality.

2018-04-06: Two lots of the epilepsy drug Primidone recalled because of high levels of lead, which may pose serious health risks