Sentences with phrase «lead dust from»

Beginning October 1, 2010, contractors will be required to take additional precautions when renovating structures where children could be exposed to lead dust from old paint.

The violations allegedly committed by American Masonry include lack of a written lead compliance program, failure to provide facilities that would prevent lead contamination of a worker's street clothes, failure to remove dangerous lead dust from the building site, and failure to implement a respirator or medical surveillance program.

Some 40,000 people in the community were exposed to toxic lead dust from informal battery recycling, resulting in the death of 18 children under the age of five.

«How To» Video Aids HEPA Vac Users «In - House Production Provides Instructions to Remove Lead» County Executive Anthony Picente said Oneida County residents who get the free loan of a HEPA Vacuum through the Lead Primary Prevention program to remove lead dust from their homes now have a new aid to assist them in the proper set - up, use and cleaning of the fine particulate cleaners.

Free dust wipe sampling to identify the presence of lead dust from deteriorating lead - based paint

When my husband and I looked for a new apartment, I made sure to find a place with new windows - a common place where chipping and peeling paint creates lead dust from surface friction.

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Because the potential risks associated with exposure to dust from worn artificial turf (which may contain lead) are not yet known, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommends that parents of youth athletes, particularly those under age 6, take certain precautions to minimize any potential risk.

Two of the most common sources of lead exposure in children include (1) paint dust from chipped or peeling lead paint and / or home renovation (may be present in any home built prior to 1978) and (2) lead contaminated drinking water from lead water pipes or lead solder.

Pesticides, pet dander, lead dust, and chemicals from cleaners and other household products can settle into the fibers.

If the paint you are stripping contains lead, you could inhale it in the clouds of dust which come from stripping the paint.

This epidemic affects mostly young children of color from low - income communities who live in poorly maintained housing, where windows, doors, walls and ceilings produce invisible lead dust that is ingested by infants and toddlers through hand - to - mouth behavior and inhalation.

They called for making the city's housing more livable, reforming housing court and addressing the serious health problems that result from lead paint, dust and cockroaches.

The city will be investigating at least three residential buildings that are under construction for lead dust following a letter from local elected officials accusing the landlord, Raphael Toledano, of harassing tenants.

The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene previously took samples from 235 and 233 East Fifth Street and 514 East 12th Street managed by Brookhill Properties, the company owned by Toledano, and found that the concentrations of lead dust far exceeded the Environmental Protection Agency's hazard standard, with the lead concentration as high as 15 times what is legally allowed in the building at 233 East Fifth Street.

At the same time, the bill allows for prosecutions that arise from actions such as turning off utilities like heat and hot water or exposing children to lead and dust.

Health Department, NYU to Collaborate On Study «NIH Grant Will Fund Window Replacement / Lead Reduction Impact Investigation» The Oneida County Health Department's Lead Primary Prevention Program has been asked to participate in a study funded through a grant from the National Institute of Health (NIH) that will determine the impact of window replacement on lead dust levels, Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr. announced toLead Reduction Impact Investigation» The Oneida County Health Department's Lead Primary Prevention Program has been asked to participate in a study funded through a grant from the National Institute of Health (NIH) that will determine the impact of window replacement on lead dust levels, Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr. announced toLead Primary Prevention Program has been asked to participate in a study funded through a grant from the National Institute of Health (NIH) that will determine the impact of window replacement on lead dust levels, Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr. announced tolead dust levels, Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr. announced today.

Commissioner Burstein adds: «Ending a child's exposure to lead from leaded paint, house dust, or any other source is the best way to prevent its harmful effects.

Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi led APC to dust PDP in the 2015 general elections, the PDP Leadership up till date has refused to forgive Amaechi for disgracing them out of power and salvaging our nation from a system whose corruptive tendency is not only contagious but legendary.

Old paint and dust from lead paint are considered to be the leading pathways for exposure in children.

Since lead dust and paint chips inhaled and eaten by children often come from raising and closing old windows, the county is also earmarking $ 436,838 in leftover funds from earlier years of the lead prevention and remediation program to give out low - interest loans or grants for window replacements, based on a sliding income scale, over the next five years.

In a series of images taken over three days in January 2016, Hubble showed 25 fragments consisting of a mixture of ice and dust that are drifting away from the comet at a pace equivalent to the walking speed of an adult, said UCLA astrophysicist David Jewitt, who led the research team.

The lead author of the new study, Guillem Anglada [1], from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (CSIC), Granada, Spain, explains the significance of this find: «The dust around Proxima is important because, following the discovery of the terrestrial planet Proxima b, it's the first indication of the presence of an elaborate planetary system, and not just a single planet, around the star closest to our Sun.»

They were directly inhaling the lead that was in the air, and they were certainly transferring lead from dust and soil into their bodies through their mouths.

«If we want to study the evolution of Earth - like planets close to the habitable zone, we need to observe the zodiacal dust in this region around other stars,» said Steve Ertel, lead author of the paper, from ESO and the University of Grenoble in France.

Professor Arjun Berera, from the University of Edinburgh's School of Physics and Astronomy, who led the study, said: «The proposition that space dust collisions could propel organisms over enormous distances between planets raises some exciting prospects of how life and the atmospheres of planets originated.

In a presentation at a national meeting of the American Chemical Society yesterday, Kim Prather from the University of California, San Diego, described research she is leading into the dust swept westward by the jet stream.

The event's unusual characteristics have led researchers to dust off one of the earliest theories for the origin of gamma - ray bursts: that they come from comets that stray too close to neutron stars.

Lead author, Dr Jay Farihi (UCL Physics & Astronomy), said: «Building rocky planets around two suns is a challenge because the gravity of both stars can push and pull tremendously, preventing bits of rock and dust from sticking together and growing into full - fledged planets.

In a brief letter published in the May 20 issue of Nature, Cornell University entomologists led by John E. Losey reported that Monarch larvae fed milkweed leaves dusted with pollen from Bt - modified corn died in a laboratory experiment.

The lead surrounding the stars — which was part of the original cloud of gas and dust from which these stars formed, not generated by reactions in the evolving stars themselves — may be dispersed within an atmospheric layer as much as 100 kilometers thick (depicted patchily in pink) that altogether weighs up to 100 billion metric tons.

Lead author of the study Dr Mikako Matsuura, from Cardiff University's School of Physics and Astronomy, said: «This is the first time that we've found these species of molecules within supernovae, which questions our long held assumptions that these explosions destroy all molecules and dust that are present within a star.

This fuzzy warmth from the galactic center has puzzled scientists for 30 years and clearer observation of it has led Ghez and her collaborators to conclude that it is most likely superheated interstellar dust on the verge of falling into the black hole in the paper presenting their findings in the current issue of Astrophysical Journal Letters.

Shalat says that poor children are both most likely to be exposed to lead — from factory smelters, dust, soil and paint — and to suffer the worst effects of that exposure, thanks to poor access to health care and other resources such as proper nutrition and high - quality schools.

Lead author Anne Madden cautions that just because samples from parts of the West tested negative for dust mites, it does not mean those areas are devoid of the critters.

Now an international team of astronomers, led by researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute, has discovered a dust - filled galaxy from the very early universe.

The unparalleled sensitivity and image sharpness of ALMA have now allowed the team of astronomers, led by Nienke van der Marel from the Leiden Observatory (https://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/) in the Netherlands to map the distribution of gas and dust in four of these transitional discs better than ever before [3].

«The most plausible mechanism for this efficient separation is the formation of Jupiter, opening a gap in the disc (a plane of gas and dust from stars) and preventing the exchange of material between the two reservoirs,» said Thomas Kruijer, lead author of the paper appearing in the June 12 online issue of, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Mauna Kea, Hawaii — A team led by astronomers from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, recently used the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii to observe and measure a rare class of «active asteroids» that spontaneously emit dust and have been confounding scientists for years.

The leading explanation is that Epsilon Aurigae consists of a yellow giant star orbited by a normal star slightly bigger than the Sun embedded in a thick disc of dust and gas oriented nearly edge on when viewed from Earth.

The unparalleled sensitivity and image sharpness of ALMA have now allowed the team of astronomers, led by Nienke van der Marel from the Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands to map the distribution of gas and dust in four of these transitional discs better than ever before [3].

The new dust analysis leaves open the possibility that part of the BICEP2 signal comes from primordial gravitational waves, which are the long - sought fingerprints of a leading Big Bang theory called «inflation.»

Cosmic dust in the high latitudes of the Milky Way could account for the entire swirl pattern that had been presented as proof of a leading Big Bang theory, according to a new data analysis from the Planck satellite.

A research group led by Anne Dutrey from the Laboratory of Astrophysics of Bordeaux, France and CNRS used the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) to observe the distribution of dust and gas in a multiple - star system called GG Tau - A [1].

To keep more lead from climbing aboard, reduce dust in your home with either frequent wet - mopping or good vacuuming with a HEPA - filtered cleaner.

The more common kinds of exposure are from dust in houses with lead paint, from water contaminated with lead (by passing through old pipes, which is what happened in Flint), or from toys, jewelry, tableware, or home remedies that may be contaminated with lead.

In older school buildings, lead, asbestos and radon contaminations, mould spores, carpet fibres and dust from crumbling walls all contribute.

An air filter's job it so remove dust particles and other contaminants from the air that's headed to your engine's combustion chamber, leading to cleaner combustion.

I did not know then what kind of living thing I would become, but the guard didn't let me have a chance to think about it — he grasped my arm and dragged me till Pearl assured him that she'd support me, and she put her arm around my waist as we were led away with the triplets, away from the ramp and into the dust, onto a little road that led past the sauna and toward the crematoria, and as we marched into this new distance with death rising up on either side of us, we saw bodies on a cart, saw them heaped and blackened, and one of the bodies — it was reaching out its hand, it was grasping for something to hold, as if there were some invisible tether in the air that only the neardead could see.

Lead from paint, chips and dust can pose serious health hazards if not taken care of properly.

The 2015 federal election saw promises by the NDP and the Liberals to expand the CPP, leading Canada's finance ministers to get back to work in examining CPP reform after the dust settled from the election.