Sentences with phrase «human health risk»

Environmental work often involves discussing human health risk from a particular chemical or the migration of a particular leak.

This novel 3 - D animation dives into how our consumption of plastics has affected marine species deaths and increased human health risks, and it explores possible long - term solutions.

This presentation will explore some of these research challenges and provide an update on the growing body of evidence regarding human health risk factors.

Almost half of the DNA belonged to bacteria, but most of it harmless or in quantities that pose little human health risk.

«While nZVI has been effective for groundwater treatment, the environmental and human health risks of nZVI need further study.

Previously Elena did scientific consulting and research on human health risk assessment.

6 «Initial Draft Human Health Risk Assessment for the Homestake Mining Co..

Pesticide spraying may present some level of human health risk as well, particularly for certain sensitive individuals such as asthmatics.

Its use was curtailed in the 1960s and finally banned in the United States in 1972 because of adverse environmental effects, especially on birds and other wildlife, as well as potential human health risks.

What about that «flawed» science that The Cornucopia Institute depended on when exposing concerns that food - grade carrageenan poses human health risks as an inflammatory agent and possible carcinogen?

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.

After hearing from medical and scientific experts describing carrageenan's link to intestinal inflammation, cancer, and other human health risks, the NOSB voted to remove carrageenan from the list of approved synthetic and non-organic substances for use in organic food production.

This also poses a significant human health risk through the potential transmission of animal - borne diseases, such as rabies and cholera — and, of course, even more dangers to those who later choose to consume the meat.

«Portion sizes are certainly one place where food waste meets human health risk because large portions make us choose between eating too much or wasting food,» explains Gunders.

The current study, and studies like it that use animal models, could contribute to determining human health risks and developing policies leading to a reduction in both exposure to THS and disease.

«Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons: New Technologies and Emerging Human Health Risks,» is a new Superfund Research Program funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.

Human health risks depend not only on the methylmercury level in the fish, but also on how much is eaten, the body weight of the consumer, and individual variation in the body's ability to handle mercury.

«Plastic particles smaller than 5 mm pose a massive environmental and human health risk when they enter our waterways,» said Abby Barrows, a marine research scientist with Adventure Scientists and College of the Atlantic, who is featured in the film and has analyzed thousands of water samples from around the world for microplastics.

The objectives of the workshop were: to inform government organizations, nongovernmental organizations and other relevant stakeholders about the impacts of climate change; to Identify specific human health risks linked to climate variability and change in the Himalayan mountain regions; to propose strategies for integrating health with relevant sectors; to achieve consensus on a draft framework for national action in the Hindu Kush - Himalayan mountain region.

While the study will consider a broad range of possible climate change - related scenarios, it will focus specifically on the direct and indirect human health risks in both the United States, and abroad.

«Hazardous air emissions are linked to a whole range of serious and immediate human health risks,» said Georges C. Benjamin, MD, FACP, FACEP (E), executive director of American Public Health Association.

Prepares human health risk assessments which include integration of analytical data, chemical profiles, selection of indicator chemical and prediction of public health impacts.

Rondeau, V. «Human Health Risk Assessment for Aluminum, Aluminum Oxide, and Aluminum Hydroxide.»

In tests at the Russian River watershed in Northern California, the Berkeley Lab researchers found instances where their method identified potential human health risks that conventional fecal indicator tests had failed to detect.

I started lecturing at Keele in 2004 following a period of time working as a Geologist / Hydrogeologist with an environmental consultancy, working primarily in the area of landfill site management, contaminated land remediation and human health risk assessment.

We used data from nationally representative surveys conducted in the United States, Canada and Malta between 2008 and 2009 to answer three questions: Does the public believe that climate change poses human health risks, and if so, are they seen as current or future risks?

Notably, Francis acknowledges the lack of evidence for human health risks from such technologies.

After hearing from medical and scientific experts describing carrageenan's link to intestinal inflammation, cancer, and other human health risks, the NOSB voted to remove carrageenan from the list of approved synthetic and non-organic substances for use in organic food production.

The dog meat trade is the only trade known to encourage the mass unregulated movement, sale and slaughter of millions of dogs each year, posing a significant human health risk...

Scientists studying the aftermath of a massive coal - ash spill in North Carolina have discovered a byproduct of the fossil fuel that may pose human health risks.

Mass Audubon generally opposes most nuisance control practices, including spraying of pesticides to kill adult mosquitoes when there is a relatively low risk of mosquito - borne disease, because of the human health risks of pesticide exposures, harmful environmental effects, and unproven effectiveness of these activities.

The state's fact sheet mentions the human health risks of having high levels of the chemical in the body.

The EPA conducted a Human Health Risk Assessment in that area in 2009 before the county built a trail for biking and hiking.

In September 2012, after years of study, Martens and the Department of Environmental Conservation formally asked the state Department of Health to review the human health risks of fracking, leading to further delays.

Mahoney says the county had to go through a human health risk assessment that determined the trail is safe.

Years later, in 2007, the EPA concluded that there were «potential human health risks» from drinking - water contamination, as well as risks to birds and other wildlife.

«At a minimum, the human health risks to the site workers from radon and its decay products should be assessed along with the associated treatment technologies such as aeration systems or holding for decay,» the agency wrote.

Dale Kemery, an EPA spokesman, said that the field of nanotechnology is «relatively new and the scientific information on the potential environmental and human health risks is limited.»

But evidence is mounting that the switch to less - toxic pyrethroids has brought its own set of new ecological and human health risks.

A widely used database of chemical safety, the Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS), would get the bulk of a 14.7 % increase to the Human Health Risk Assessment program.

There has been a pitched battle between the chemical industry and its many critics regarding the Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program itself, with some industry representatives questioning the very premise that endocrine disruption is a human health risk.

In the meantime, black roofs remain a human health risk.

The new volcanic emissions information pulls together opportunities to improve monitoring of natural hazards, human health risks and climate processes — one volcanic breath at a time.

Currently, the human health risk from exposure to a given endocrine disruptor is normally assessed using a rodent model.

Human health risks and impacts of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs, will be studied at Oregon State University and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory for the next 4 years.

Persistent Organic Pollutant emission via dust fallout throughout Pakistan: Fingerprinting of recent inputs, regional cycling and their implication for human health risks.