Sentences with phrase «not protect public health»

Not exact matches

Even if you don't get a flu vaccine before October, as is considered ideal, public health officials recommend that everyone — including pregnant women in any trimester — aged 6 months and older, as well as those with compromised immune systems such as small children and the elderly, get their seasonal flu shots in order to protect both themselves and those around them.

It is also true that we must work hard to ensure that the laws which govern our own system protect the public health and welfare and provide aid for those who can not make it on their own.

Dr. Stephen Keener, Mecklenburg County medical director, said the quarantine is just a preventative measure: «Quarantine is a public health measure to protect the public that requires healthy people who were exposed to a disease to be prevented from contact with others until it is certain that they are not infected».

First, because a policyholder must act quickly to protect public health, it might not have the opportunity to confirm that actual contamination has occurred before making the decision to recall the product.

We won't stop until the agency that protects us all is spared the recklessness of those that put polluter - friendly policies ahead of public health,» said Environmental Advocates of New York Executive Director Peter Iwanowicz.

«The law is clear: EPA can not possibly support a finding that GE's limited dredging has been sufficient to protect New Yorkers» public health and the environment,» Schneiderman said.

As state leaders, we have an innate responsibility to investigate public health and safety crises and protect those who are not powerful to stand up to government malfeasance.»

«Protecting public health is not a priority for this administration.»

Cuomo issued a statement saying the incinerator plan is «not consistent with my administration's goals for protecting our public health, our environment, and our thriving agriculture - based economy in the Finger Lakes.»

The proposed rule, which is subject to public comment until July 9, has drawn fire from some lawmakers and public health experts who maintain that it does not go far enough to protect children from the devices.

«They're not actually doing anything to protect public health,» says Mae Wu, an attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Traditional chemical - by - chemical and facility - by - facility regulation does not sufficiently protect public health, because people come into contact with numerous pollutants where they live, work and play, and the interactions among those pollutants can be significant.

A 70 - ppb standard thus «may not meet the statutory requirement to protect public health with an adequate margin of safety,» CASAC said at the time.

Although patients can not control air quality, Liu said, the findings provide evidence for policy makers and public health leaders to develop better models for monitoring and predicting climate changes so that patients can better protect themselves.

«Although we did not find the overall traffic - related fatality rate to predict policy adoption, the size of the population ages 15 to 24 years — the group most at risk for death and injury from impaired driving — was associated with first time policy adoption, suggesting that states might be initially more receptive to regulation when it involves protecting younger populations,» said study author Diana Silver, associate professor of public health at NYU Steinhardt and NYU College of Global Public Hpublic health at NYU Steinhardt and NYU College of Global Public Hhealth at NYU Steinhardt and NYU College of Global Public HPublic HealthHealth.

McCarthy added, «We'll see what this administration proposes, but I think there's good reason to think that a narrow reading of the statute is just not sufficient from sort of meeting the obligation under the Clean Air Act, which is to continue to protect public health to the extent that the statute calls on.

Industry groups, however, expressed concern that the proposed regulations are not needed to protect public health and welfare and that they will impose undue economic burdens.

To address the growing observation that the proposed site can not geologically isolate the waste, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) gerrymandered the zone of compliance for environmental laws — what is called the «controlled area» — around the Yucca Mountain site to allow for the site to be licensed, rather than protect the public health and environment for generations to come.

Despite public health messages about the importance of sun protection, many people, including some with a previous melanoma, are not protecting themselves effectively resulting in severe sunburn.

Schools are responsible for their premises under Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 (sections 2, 3, 4 & 6), Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) Regulations 2002 (Regulations 6,7,8,9 & 12) and Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 to protect the health and safety of not only their pupils and staff, but for all those who are at risk including members of pHealth and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 (sections 2, 3, 4 & 6), Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) Regulations 2002 (Regulations 6,7,8,9 & 12) and Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 to protect the health and safety of not only their pupils and staff, but for all those who are at risk including members of pHealth (COSHH) Regulations 2002 (Regulations 6,7,8,9 & 12) and Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 to protect the health and safety of not only their pupils and staff, but for all those who are at risk including members of pHealth and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 to protect the health and safety of not only their pupils and staff, but for all those who are at risk including members of phealth and safety of not only their pupils and staff, but for all those who are at risk including members of public.

-- Nothing in this Act shall be construed to preempt, modify, or amend any State, county, or local law, ordinance, or regulation applicable to food handling which is designed to protect the public health from individuals who pose a significant risk to the health or safety of others, which can not be eliminated by reasonable accommodation, pursuant to the list of infectious or communicable diseases and the modes of transmissability published by the Secretary of Health and Human Serhealth from individuals who pose a significant risk to the health or safety of others, which can not be eliminated by reasonable accommodation, pursuant to the list of infectious or communicable diseases and the modes of transmissability published by the Secretary of Health and Human Serhealth or safety of others, which can not be eliminated by reasonable accommodation, pursuant to the list of infectious or communicable diseases and the modes of transmissability published by the Secretary of Health and Human SerHealth and Human Services.

«FDA does not believe raw meat foods for animals are consistent with the goal of protecting the public from significant health risks, particularly when such products are brought into the home and / or used to feed domestic pets; however, we understand that some people prefer to feed these types of diets to their pets.»

The report's recommendations include: a limit on the number of times a sire can be used for breeding; health screening should be made a legal requirement for dogs selected for breeding; the title of Champion should not be given unless a dog has been health screened; the word «pedigree» should be linked to a high standard of breeding for health and welfare; an independent advisory body should be set up to advise the Kennel Club and breed clubs; a puppy sale contract should be introduced to protect consumers; DEFRA should take forward a campaign for public awareness.

Puppies can not be in public spaces without being inside a puppy pen or held, and must be separate from other dogs to protect their health.

Animal inoculation records maintained by any state or local public agency may be used only in protecting the public health and welfare or by any other government agency and are not public records open to inspection or duplication.

Liability should not be an issue for towns or municipalities that implement TNR programs for the purpose of reducing cat populations, protecting public health through vaccination efforts, or resolving nuisance complaints.

They are not only educated to protect the health care of pets, livestock as well as zoo, exotic, competition and laboratory animals but they play an important role in environmental protection, food safety and public health.

Not only does this tremendous community effort create a visually attractive beach for the enjoyment of visitors and locals but it also reduces vandalism through youth participation, increases interaction among various groups, promotes public awareness and education, maintains pleasant and attractive beaches, protects the environment, improves resource management, increases pride and moral, improves health standards, promotes tourism and prevents litter.

While I'm for transparency, I don't like the California initiative because it's rife with exemptions and special cases, all of which speak of a double standard and point to the intent being less to protect public health than make life complicated or costlier for some agriculture sectors.

Some will regard the council's trade as a ploy to undo the EPA's authority to protect not just climate — where it may be largely ineffectual anyway — but public health.

In fact, had the EPA's (and successive, sycophantic governments) enforced the mandate they were given, some 40 years ago (to protect the environment and public health) no - one would be debating Australia's and America's degraded state of the environment and billions of futile dollars would not have been bled from taxpayers to remediate the damage caused by corporate eco-terrorists who are sufficiently deluded in believing they have a mandate to pollute with impunity.

«The funding limitation will allow Congress to carefully and thoroughly debate a permanent clarification to the Clean Air Act to ensure it remains a strong tool for protecting public health by regulating and mitigating air pollutants, and that it is not transformed into a vehicle to impose a national energy tax,» explains Chairman Whitfield's press release.

We must enhance community safety and enjoyment: Traditional infrastructure isn't designed to handle the increased floods and droughts that come with global warming, so we need a modern approach to protect public health, safety, and quality of life.

«President Trump stressed that this isn't about lowering standards for protecting health and safety, whether for miners or the public, but about ending unnecessary and costly regulations that kill jobs without producing any benefits,» the group said in a statement.

To top it off, EPA itself proclaims: «The emissions limits in today's rule are technology - based... and do not need to be justified based on their ability to protect public health.»

However, California remains convinced that greater fuel economy and more electric cars — not fewer — are needed to protect the public health, address climate change, and save consumers money at the pump, according to Stanley Young, the ARB spokesman.

HEAL challenges air and water quality permits for coal plants that do not adequately protect public health and the environment

The problem is FSCO doesn't investigate complaints against the brokering facility and / or the expert regulated health professionals who edit and / or prepare the expert reports on behalf of the assessing or examining experts; and the College's don't regulate the Third Party Report and expert assessments conducted by their members (see K.I., MD and L.K. 2013 ON HPARB 332 (CanLII); and B.M. v. T.F. 2009 ON HPARB 89213 (CanLII) and are not meeting their obligation to protect the public.

This has seen the safety of the public promoted, the health of the doctor protected and human rights enhanced in a way that the Alberta process seems not to recognize.

Since the statutory authority to which the commenter refers does not often exist, many uses of protected health information that are in the public interest (described above in more detail) would not be possible under such an approach.

As discussed above however, a great many commenters asserted that dealing with a mixture of protected and non-protected records is more burdensome, and that public concerns over health information confidentiality are not at all limited to electronic communications.

Comment: A few commenters expressed concern that protected health information about persons who are not suspects may be used in court and thereby become public knowledge.

If the covered hospital wishes at some point in the future to make discretionary disclosures for public health purposes, it must revise its notice to so state, and Start Printed Page 82551must segregate its records so that protected health information created or received under the prior notice is not disclosed for discretionary public health purposes.

A covered entity is not in violation of the requirements of this rule when a member of its workforce or a business associate of the covered entity discloses protected health information to: (i) A health oversight agency or public health authority authorized by law to investigate or otherwise oversee the relevant conduct or conditions of the covered entity; (ii) an appropriate health care accreditation organization; or (iii) an attorney, for the purpose of determining his or her legal options with respect to whistleblowing.

Additional commenters who argued that the definition was too narrow raised the following concerns: the difference between «research» and «health care operations» is irrelevant from the patients» perspective, and therefore, the proposed rule should have required documentation of approval by an IRB or privacy board before protected health information could be used or disclosed for either of these purposes, and the proposed definition was too limited because it did not capture research conducted by non-profit entities to ensure public health goals, such as disease - specific registries.

(B) If the individual is unable to agree because of incapacity, a law enforcement or other public official authorized to receive the report represents that the protected health information for which disclosure is sought is not intended to be used against the individual and that an immediate enforcement activity that depends upon the disclosure would be materially and adversely affected by waiting until the individual is able to agree to the disclosure.

For example, a covered hospital that states in its notice that it will only make public health disclosures required by law, and that does not reserve the right to change this practice, is prohibited from making any discretionary public health disclosures of protected health information created or received during the effective period of that notice.

The NPRM would have allowed covered entities to disclose protected health information without individual authorization to: (1) A public health authority authorized by law to collect or receive such information for the purpose of preventing or controlling disease, injury, or disability, including, but not limited to, the reporting of disease, injury, vital events such as birth or death, and the conduct of public health surveillance, public health investigations, and public health interventions; (2) a public health authority or other appropriate authority authorized by law to receive reports of child abuse or neglect; (3) a person or entity other than a governmental authority that could demonstrate or demonstrated that it was acting to comply with requirements or direction of a public health authority; or (4) a person who may have been exposed to a communicable disease or may otherwise be at risk of contracting or spreading a disease or condition and was authorized by law to be notified as necessary in the conduct of a public health intervention or investigation.

In the former case, jurisdictions have determined that public policy purposes can not be achieved absent the use of certain protected health information, and we have chosen in general not to disturb their judgments.

Response: This level of detail is necessary to ensure that individuals» rights with respect to their health information are clear, while also ensuring that information necessary for important public functions, such as protecting public health, promoting biomedical research, fighting health care fraud, and notifying family members in disaster situations, will not be impaired by this regulation.