Sentences with phrase «lead levels in»

(TNS)-- The recent news about high lead levels in the Flint, Mich., water supply has raised concerns about lead poisoning in general.

HUD plans to focus on compliance with the regulations as they apply to property rentals, rather than sales, and to concentrate its efforts on rental properties in large urban areas that are identified with problems connected to elevated lead levels in the blood.

Six months after Liz and Jamie Nunez purchased a home, they discovered that their children had elevated lead levels in their blood.

In contrast, Vermont amended its law to no longer require testing for lead levels in food and vitamins.

Tests conducted on child indicated the she had lead levels in her blood, which the CDC marks as the «reference level which public health actions be initiated.»

The plaintiff, who was three years old at the time, had lead levels in her blood that were high enough to require frequent testing.

By then, lead levels in Flint's water had fallen between 50 and 80 percent.

The lawsuit in Chicago, which was filed in February by three residents, alleges that an initiative to replace water mains resulted in higher lead levels in the drinking water.

That lawsuit came several months after officials said that about half of Newark's schools had unacceptably high lead levels in the water.

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Similarly, a 2007 study of Greek produce found that organic agriculture does not necessarily reduce the cadmium and lead levels in crops.

In addition, EPA analyzed how regulation of lead in gasoline would reduce atmospheric concentrations, reduce lead levels in blood, and, thus, improve public health.

Studies have shown that lead levels in the soil around affected buildings can be as high as 9,300 ppm.»

According to USFWS, «The recommended clean - up proposes to reduce lead levels in the soil to no more than 75 parts per million (ppm).

Due to concerns regarding lead levels in the old formulation the manufacturer of Kaopectate have changed the active ingredient to bismuth subsalicylate.

High lead levels in the soil shown in this image lead state officials to deem the Audubon Charter School's plan for a temporary campus unacceptable.

A year ago, New Orleans school officials announced a proactive plan to test lead levels in school water lines.

Lead levels in the soil at the proposed temporary site of Audubon Charter School are the highest one scientist has ever seen in New Orleans, but he assured a cafeteria packed with concerned, angry and sometimes unconvinced parents Thursday night that the remediation techniques he suggests will make the campus safe.

In a March 31 report included in a May 9 update on the project on the Orleans Parish School Board website, investigators said they found lead levels in the soil ranging from 660 to 7,700 parts per million in every tract of the playground area they tested, well in excess of the 440 - ppm federal standard for play areas or even the 1200 - ppm standard for non-play areas.

A study of bone lead levels in middle - aged to elderly men concluded that low dietary intake of vitamin D may increase lead accumulation in bones.22 Consuming key micronutrients through a traditionally prepared whole - foods diet (rather than in synthetic form) is, of course, vital.

To put that number in perspective, even the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says lead levels in water exceeding 15 ppb are very dangerous and must be acted upon.

One child had lead levels in his blood that were 200 percent higher than the medical safety standard.

A ways back you raised concern about lead levels in nutritional yeast.

High lead levels in drinking water have been linked to delays in mental and physical development, learning difficulties, and short attention spans in kids.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the best ways to lower lead levels in the body are to eliminate sources of exposure (like old paint in homes built before 1978), and to eat healthy foods with calcium, iron, and Vitamin C — nutrients that «may help keep lead out of the body.»

The lead levels in Pittsburgh's drinking water are comparable to those reported in Flint, Michigan, an expert says.

The EPA's Thomas Poy says «the results give further evidence that lead levels in Flint are trending upward.»

Childhood blood lead levels in the city have been on a steady decline since 2006, with the exception of two spikes — including between 2014 and 2015 when lead contaminated the city's drinking water — according to the study led by Michigan Medicine and Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.

Tests found a concerning increase in the number of children with elevated lead levels in their blood after the water switch.

Since the revelations of staggeringly high lead levels in the drinking water of Flint, Mich., and more recently reported spikes around the country, people have understandably voiced alarm at the threat such exposure poses to children.

But the lead levels in the water have not necessarily created blood lead levels that will permanently damage mental functions in children if the effects of exposure are mitigated by urgent attention to education and health care.

For lead exposure, for example, they used lead levels in drinking water or soil, and a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency model that translates the data into projected blood lead levels.

We saw city officials dismissing public concerns, knew that the city was not treating the river water to prevent corrosion and found high lead levels in samples from the Walters» home.

Our findings, combined with data on blood lead levels in Flint children released by Dr. Mona Hanna - Attisha at Hurley Medical Center, finally prompted city, state and federal officials to declare emergencies in Flint and switch back to Detroit water.

The authors provided safety recommendations including conducting a careful reexamination of the allowable lead levels in individuals who frequent firing ranges for occupational reasons, developing better education around lead - exposure risks for recreational users, and continuing the push to find lead - free substitutes for bullets and primer.

Dr. Mona Hanna - Attisha, a pediatrician, director of a pediatric residency program in Flint, Mich. and the first person to raise public concerns about elevated lead levels in the blood of Flint area children, talked about the consequences of sounding the alarm over her research that found Flint's water system was leaching lead into drinking water and making her young patients sick.

She says that water companies will only have to act to reduce excessive lead levels in tapwater if it can be shown the lead comes from their pipes.

«The lead levels in the mouse mothers were carefully designed to be within human population exposure levels.

They also had a higher risk of dying if they were under the age of 24 months, if a community well was their primary source of water and if their family compound had high lead levels in the soil.

Chris Parish of the Peregrine Fund, a non-profit organisation headquartered in Boise, Idaho, leads a project here which includes both trapping the birds to test lead levels in their blood and detoxifying any with high levels.

The group notes that the lead levels in some wells fluctuated during continued water use as particulate lead was mobilized.

Kelsey J. Pieper and colleagues wanted to systematically assess the lead levels in private wells in Macon County.

Researchers examined lead levels in dirt drilled from two Roman harbor sites, Ostia and Portus, on the Tiber River.

They recommend reconsidering federal standards for lead in consumer products and reevaluating the acceptable blood lead levels in children.

Collecting blood samples from 137 vultures and 27 ravens, they found that lead levels in ravens were almost six times higher during hunting season, when they were exposed to animal remains tainted with lead ammunition, than the rest of the year.

Godwin takes accepted students who enroll in introductory chemistry in their first year and involves them in efforts to monitor lead levels in low - income housing in the Chicago area.

(Edwards was also previously involved in uncovering an earlier spike in lead levels in the drinking water of Washington, D.C.) Speaking with The Chronicle of Higher Education in an interview he found surprisingly «emotional,» Edwards adds that «[t] he pressures to get funding are just extraordinary.

The latest research also suggests that the 2014 ban on hunting on government owned land in Botswana has had no effect on the lead levels in vultures.

Lead levels in vultures actually increased after the ban, and the researchers believe vultures may have shifted their foraging to private game farms where hunting is still allowed: «Hunting may have become more concentrated after the ban and this might explain the increase in lead levels in vultures following the ban, since the vultures may have tapped more into this food supply.

► «Water treatment and corrosion expert Marc Edwards made headlines recently for his work to uncover and address the elevated lead levels in drinking water in Flint, Michigan.»