Sentences with phrase «of environmental testing»

The average cost of environmental testing, inspection, and remediation is $ 325 per residential transaction — including both seller and buyer expenses — according to the 1996 Environmental Compliance Cost Survey from the NAR Research Division.

One wonders what the Ontario MTC (with perfect hindsight) was supposed to have done in the 1960s — anticipate the growth of environmental testing and the imposition of stricter forms of environmental liability.

The decision allows Scotts to bypass the years of environmental testing and consultation typically required by the regulators for GM plants, although the company says there are no plans to market this particular variety.

Cleanup of scattered landfill from the former factory are under way throughout the city site, and it took years of environmental testing to make sure the site of the new aquatic center was free of any contaminants, said Jeanette McMahon, Park District spokeswoman.

And uhm - with mycotoxins, we can do a few different types of environmental test.

Not exact matches

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has accused Fiat of using «hidden software» that appeared to make some of its vehicles perform differently in testing than on - road use, according to a Reuters report.

The automaker admits that, since 2009, it outfitted several of its diesel - powered models — such as the Golf, Passat, Jetta, and Beetle — with «defeat devices» that would switch off emissions controls, and thereby boost performance, except when the vehicles were being put through environmental tests.

Using the streets of Paris as their laboratory, the social scientists tested how environmental cues affect people's generosity.

Since the Sept. 18 announcement by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency of VW's deliberately - doctored tests, the value of used VW and Audi diesels in the U.S. has fallen an average of 13 %, according to Kelley Blue Book.

ALBANY - BASED Supersorb Minerals has taken a significant step in its drive to develop environmental technology projects as an extension of its core absorbent minerals business, starting test work for mine water treatment and mine site remediation at th...

In addition, we can provide related environmental services like radon and termite testing which can help you gain an overall perspective of your property.

The tariffs could test Trump's popularity among farmers, many of whom voted for him and have since cheered his rolling back of environmental regulations.

And even though these are merely proposed restrictions for now — it's hard to test the constitutionality of a press release, one environmental law academic noted — they could well become a second front in the ongoing battle against transporting bitumen across rivers, alongside lakes and toward oceans.

A committee of the Los Angeles City Council has approved an environmental review exemption for a tunnel that Elon Musk wants to dig to test a novel underground transportation system.

Even if the home isn't in a tier 1 location, New Jersey's Department of Environmental Protection recommends testing all homes for radon concentrations.

«The effects of the terrain on dismounted and mounted movement, the difference in hours of darkness and daylight and the environmental effects on communication, just to name a few of the myriad factors unique to this area, all combine to pose a serious test that stresses all members of the unit from the commander down to the most junior rifleman, Daily said.»

Testing on the genetic link for cystic fibrosis, Huntington's disease, Duchenne's muscular dystrophy and other diseases indicates that environmental influences, especially the health and habits of the mother, determine to some extent the form and severity of an offspring's disease.

In this inference pattern the deductive inference is to predictions which test the proposed dominant order of an environment elaborated analogically, not deductively, from the model of another environmental order.

Other hidden costs that you may not be aware of include pesticide regulation and testing, the costs that are associated with hazardous waste disposal and cleanup, and the cost to our planet in the way of environmental damage.

In reviewing environmental monitoring programs for food manufacturing facilities, a common weakness is the investigation into the root cause of the positive test result.

Atty. Zelda Soriano, Legal Counsel for the Petitioners discussed the grounds on which the appellate court based their favorable decision, which includes the main argument of the petitioners that the field testing is characterized by «serious scientific uncertainty with regard to its health and environmental effects.»

When residue testing detects prohibited substances at levels that are greater than 5 percent of the Environmental Protection Agency's tolerance for the specific residue detected or unavoidable residual environmental contamination, the agricultural product must not be sold, labeled, or represented as organicaEnvironmental Protection Agency's tolerance for the specific residue detected or unavoidable residual environmental contamination, the agricultural product must not be sold, labeled, or represented as organicaenvironmental contamination, the agricultural product must not be sold, labeled, or represented as organically produced.

«For example, they are the first producer to test and invest in the testing of iCage technology which allows for a more balanced approach to growth and reducing their environmental footprint.

«Based on these production issues and our goal to redesign and relaunch all of our packaging in a sustainable manner, with product protection and environmental concerns in mind, we decided on the new MasterBag Pyramid format and a high - barrier, paper - based outer packaging, following a lengthy development and testing phase,» confirms Thomas Holz, Managing Director and Tea Taster at TeeGschwendner.

AsureQuality utilises a network of international laboratories to offer a wide range of environmental food testing for processors, producers, and competent authorities in the environmental and human health sectors.

Our families are committed to the strictest standards of quality control through regular on - farm testing and independent farm and environmental assessments.

Made of a special engineered 100 percent paperboard lamination and a combination of recycled and virgin fibers, THE CUBE ® was the first design to meet the display labor savings and Environmental, ISTA Testing directives from WAL - MART.

To achieve this, our food microbiology experts began by collating significant quantities of the company's internal data on formulation history, processes, raw materials, microbial quality tests and environmental monitoring.

Despite slight differences, all those various flavors of Naga Jolokia seem to have basically the same genetics and origin, and if heat level claims differ, it might be due to environmental influences, growing seasons, or non-standard HPLC tests.

Our Microbiology Lab continuously tests our ingredients, intermediate products, finished goods and the environmental quality of the manufacturing facility to ensure we meet the highest of standards regarding food born pathogens.

In a large study on pesticides in produce by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), bananas ranked 22nd for most contaminated of the 49 tested fruits.

The impact of environmental sound was used to test the response of sleeping babies that were swaddle and non-swaddle.

But that was before the Cook County Department of Environmental Control requested additional asbestos inspections and testing at the decades - old shopping center, pushing the project back several weeks.

NAPERVILLE — Trapshooters at the shuttered Sportsman's Park range must cool their heels for at least two more weeks while officials of the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency and the Naperville Park District await test results from ground water samples taken near the park.

Ultimately, one of the tests, conducted by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency last spring, concluded that lead is not a threat to the region's ground water.

«It's a test plot because we're not sure which native species will do the best,» said Joe Benedict, director of environmental services.

We have several friends who's children suffer from severe food allergies, and our own daughters have environmental allergies, not to mention that we recently had an allergy blood test performed on Lil» C that came back very borderline for peanut / milk allergy (which she has food aversions to anyway) and we know that certain bug bites / stings are severe reactions for Miss A, swelling to the size of baseballs or bigger and have medicine for her reactions.

The Environmental Working Group tested infant formula and found, «For 1 in 10 cans of all food tested, and 1 in 3 cans of infant formula, a single serving contained enough BPA to expose a woman or infant to BPA levels more than 200 times the government's traditional safe level of exposure for industrial chemicals.»

To find the cause of an allergy, allergists usually do skin tests for the most common environmental and food allergens.

Environmental advocates are calling on state lawmakers to use the final six weeks of the session to develop and pass legislation requiring lead and copper water testing at the tap in New York schools and, if necessary, remediation of contamination.

Ultimately, the test of a speech like this is does it provide us with a political narrative for coping with a situation where we face (at least) a triple crisis - economic, political, and environmental?

However, I do want to caution you that we've tested it for a few campaigns (albeit mostly environmental orgs, not political campaigns or something really sexy) and got truly terrible results in terms of recruiting new activists and donors, though.

A: You may contact any New York State Department of Health - certified environmental laboratory to have your water tested.

The testing of Washington Lake and Silver Stream near the Stewart Airport Air National Guard base has given the state Department of Environmental Conservation enough proof to declare the area a Superfund site because of PFOS contamination, believed to have originated from the Guard base.

An environmental group has expanded the number of locations where it and its partners test water quality.

«There are issues where he says he's in touch with the people where he couldn't be more out of touch, especially when it comes to environmental issues like testing with lead,» Rogers said.

There have been no tests whatsoever on the much more important issues of long - term soil pollution, transgene flow (carrying contamination to neighbouring fields), the very difficult problem of superweeds, or on the environmental impacts if crop yield profiteering were maximised.

State environmental officials have been mum for two months about their plans for a second round of air monitoring at the Peace Bridge after they misrepresented the flawed first round of testing.

According to results provided by the Department of Environmental Conservation, testing done in 2004 shows some wells at their site had 152,000 and 117,000 parts per trillion of PFOAs.

Suffolk County Health Department officials testing water from private wells near East Hampton Airport have found levels of chemicals at one residence above the Environmental Protection Agency's acceptable level for lifetime exposure.