Sentences with phrase «industrial compounds»

First, this shows that we must not assume that the suite of industrial compounds used in developing countries is necessarily the same as those used in the West, says Christopher Harman, researcher at NIVA.

Every state, including Wisconsin, has issued health advisories for an array of rivers, lakes and bays that warn of the dangers of eating fish tainted with industrial compounds and other chemicals.

Foreign infant formula is coveted in China, where public trust was damaged by a 2008 scandal in which six infants died and thousands of others were sickened after drinking milk tainted with the toxic industrial compound melamine.

Along Wisconsin's Monona Bay one day this summer, a number of anglers — predominantly black — displayed a divergent understanding of the risks posed by chemicals in the fish, including mercury and industrial compounds called polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs).

Sasol has spent years planning to expand its chemical factory outside Lake Charles, La., into a sprawling facility to turn natural gas into industrial compounds and diesel fuel.

They are typically much more expensive than other crib mattresses, but don't contain chemicals and industrial compounds including flame retardants known as PBDEs (polybrominated diphenyl ethers), vinyl, and polyurethane foam.

Nine percent of the doctors told their patients about polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), industrial compounds often found in fish.

A 2009 study by the Environmental Working Group identified 232 different industrial compounds and pollutants in the cord blood of 10 infants.

Bisphenol A (BPA) is a widespread industrial compound used in the synthesis of polycarbonate plastics.

Employing industrial compounds on panels, rather than oil and canvas, he reaffirms the material existence of painting in space.

«It's important that the agency act promptly to eliminate or reduce Americans» exposure to industrial compounds linked to cancer, birth defects, hormone disruption and other health problems.»

Nearly all household and personal - care products use industrial compounds collectively known as biocides, the research team said, noting that traces of these chemicals wind up in the sludge and slurry U.K. farmers use.

They contend that chemicals and industrial compounds used in standard mattresses — flame retardants known as PBDE (polybrominated diphenyl ethers), vinyl, and polyurethane foam, for instance — emit toxic gases, and that the substances used to make mattresses could harm babies.

They don't contain the chemicals and industrial compounds that some parents think could result in the emission of toxic gases or allergic reactions in infants.

Mothers turned away from Chinese milk powder in 2008 when infant formula tainted with the industrial compound melamine killed at least six babies and made thousands sick with kidney stones.

Organic Crib Mattress: As the name implies, such mattresses are made of organic materials, and absent of any chemical and industrial compounds — flame retardants, PBDE, vinyl, polyurethane foam, latex, etc., in the fear of them causing unwanted harm to their occupants.

PCBs — industrial compounds that are the most prevalent pollutants tested — are decreasing at the slowest pace, at about 3 to 8 percent per year, while DDT declined about 11 to 16 percent per year.

Large quantities of game meat, poached by individuals and gangs and quite revolting in quality and preparation, are being sold at this moment in African villages and to the industrial compounds of the copper belt.

Fred Pohland at the University of Pittsburgh, the pioneer of the wet approach, found that industrial compounds, such as the solvent trichlorethylene, which is carcinogenic, are also neutralised.

However, crops that contain pharmaceutical and industrial compounds, many of which are in field trials, do raise concern, says Norman Ellstrand of the University of California, Riverside.

American Chemical Society: «Avocado seed husks could be a gold mine of medicinal and industrial compounds.»

While some industrial compounds have been evaluated for safety, the majority haven't.

In the case of Clearfield, the industrial compound sodium azide was used to induce mutations.

In the late 1980s it was appreciated that industrial compounds used in refrigeration (notably chlorinated fluorocarbons) could destroy ozone.

The Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer, which has resulted in the phasing out of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), a group of industrial compounds that react with and disassociate ozone molecules, is a collective adaptive response by humans to a perceived and predicted threat to life from stratospheric ozone depletion.

Worse, in 2005 a small study of the umbilical cord blood from 10 randomly chosen newborns in the US showed that babies are now coming into this world «pre-polluted» with 200 industrial compounds.

In the years since 2008, U.S. lenders have opened the commercial real estate (CRE) credit spigots, lending money underpinned by properties including hotels, multifamily rental units, and industrial compounds.