Sentences with phrase «of lead dust»

This standard can be met either by passing a series of lead dust tests or by carrying out certain lead hazard reduction treatments and obtaining an independent visual inspection certifying that the treatments have been completed.

Shoes are also responsible for 98 percent of the lead dust found in homes.

The finding led Reginald's parents, Jeanine and Reginald Sr., on a decade - long quest to rid each home they moved to of lead dust and counteract the effects of lead exposure on their children.

We knew that lead paint could cause lead poisoning, and it was understood that the routes of exposure were the eating of paint chips and the ingestion of lead dust that would get on children's fingertips.

BROOKLYN — A Crown Heights landlord who left tenants without heat in the winter and exposed kids as young as 6 to toxic amounts of lead dust to get residents out of his 14 - unit apartment building so he could charge more is proof the city's rent laws need to be strengthened, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday.

An investigation by the Tenant Harassment Prevention Task Force allegedly found that the two men shut off heat to rent regulated apartments even as outside temperatures dropped below freezing, illegally destroyed interior walls and common areas, and exposed tenants to 88 times the legal amount of lead dust.

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

«Excellus BlueCross BlueShield's policy of community involvement and their understanding of the gravity and scope of Oneida County's lead poisoning issue will make it possible for our Lead Primary Prevention program to expand its HEPA vacuum loaner program and more aggressively attack the problem of lead dust, so harmful to children, and so prevalent in the county's aging infra - structure,» Picente said.

Buffalo and Erie County's North Park Branch was closed in late April 2008 when routine site preparation test results indicated elevated levels of lead dust in public areas of the building.

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.

Even children who don't chew on paint chips can get lead into their system if there's lead - based paint in or around their home or another building they spend time in: Doors and window frames covered with lead paint release tiny particles of lead dust into the air every time they're opened or closed.

Also, the National Institutes of Health estimates that roughly 20 million artificial trees in U.S. homes are at least nine years old — that's when they typically start to deteriorate and give off possibly dangerous levels of lead dust.

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And there, coated in desert dust, Pishevar agreed to lead the first round of funding - $ 15 million.

The emerging markets have been the repository of the Bernanke QE2 program as low rates have led to the search for higher yields and let potential risk be damned or rather rationalized away by dusting off the models of Long Term Capital Management.

In other words, the choice which Life requires of our considered action is a great deal less complex than at first seemed to be the case; for it is reduced to a simple choice between the first and last stages of the successive alternatives which we have been able to define: the rejection of Being, which returns us to dust, or the acceptance of Being, which leads us, by way of socialization, to faith in a Supreme Unity — opposite directions along a single road.

Again, the publishers proclaim on the dust - jacket of another recent work (Edmund Perry, The Gospel in Dispute [see n. 34, below], the publishers are Doubleday): «Dr. Perry has used the skills of the cultural anthropologist in presenting a clear picture of the four leading non-Christian religions — a picture accepted enthusiastically by their exponents.»

That is an often fatal falsehood that almost always leads to failure, a distrust of brand in general and being left in the dust by the competition.

Working with some of the world's leading snacks producers, Ishida Europe understands the challenges to deliver potato chips (crisps) in a bag with maximum taste and minimal breakage or dust.

We were split up into two groups (A and B) and when the dust finally settled at the end of the night, Team TKE SR2 led by Keith Knopp took 1st place in Group B for both Dodgeball and Volleyball!

While exposure to some germs may help build children's immune systems, allergens like mold, dust mites are a leading trigger of allergy and asthma systems in both children and adults.

By doing this you will be making sure that dust doesn't get the chance to pile up in between the fibers of your carpet which in turn could lead to yucky insects and other unwanted things.

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.

Unfortunately, pillows quickly build up excessive amounts of health busters such as bacteria, mold spores and dust mites, leading to allergy symptoms such as sore throat, headache and congestion.

The main source of lead exposure is chipped paint and dust formed when the paint starts eroding.

Breathing in dust can lead to a number of health issues and even allergies.

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

Today, statues of Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini are nowhere to be found, and the right - wing UK press led the cheers when statues of Saddam Hussein bit the dust.

Young children, when exposed to high levels of lead in house dust, are particularly vulnerable.

Even today, deteriorating lead - based paint in homes can lead to high (and unsafe) concentrations of lead in house dust.

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.

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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.

A very small amount of lead paint dust can result in a house failing inspection under federal Environmental Protection Agency regulations.

Those services include lead testing of newborns, free on - site lead inspections, dust wipe sampling and the training seminars for contractors and landlords on lead safe work practices.

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«County's Lead Primary Prevention Expands HEPA Vac Loaner Program» Ways to reduce the incidence of childhood lead poisoning caused by the ingestion of lead paint chips or the inhalation of lead - laden dust is the theme of National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week, October 24th through the 30th, Oneida County Executive... Read Lead Primary Prevention Expands HEPA Vac Loaner Program» Ways to reduce the incidence of childhood lead poisoning caused by the ingestion of lead paint chips or the inhalation of lead - laden dust is the theme of National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week, October 24th through the 30th, Oneida County Executive... Read lead poisoning caused by the ingestion of lead paint chips or the inhalation of lead - laden dust is the theme of National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week, October 24th through the 30th, Oneida County Executive... Read lead paint chips or the inhalation of lead - laden dust is the theme of National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week, October 24th through the 30th, Oneida County Executive... Read lead - laden dust is the theme of National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week, October 24th through the 30th, Oneida County Executive... Read Lead Poisoning Prevention Week, October 24th through the 30th, Oneida County Executive... Read more

Experts believe the chief culprit is chipping paint and lead paint dust inside and outside of Buffalo's old housing stock.

ALBANY — Last August, a lunch between the top Senate Democratic fundraiser Michael Gianaris and Real Estate Board of New York president John Banks led to speculation that the traditional alliance between developers and Senate Republicans might be eroding in the wake of dust - ups over issues like 421 - a tax credits.

«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 cleanLead» 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 cleanLead 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 cleanlead 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.

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.

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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.

They found similar proportions of lead in atmospheric mineral dust samples collected in Switzerland.

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.»

When the towers collapsed, 2 million tons of dust containing concrete, asbestos, glass, lead, and carcinogens rained down on Lower Manhattan.

«Our results show that a greening of the Sahara with reduced dust loadings lead to more favorable conditions for tropical cyclone development,» says Francesco S.R. Pausata, researcher at the Department of Meteorology, Stockholm University.

Extensive ground cover, combined with reductions of airborne dust, intensified water evaporation into the atmosphere, leading to monsoonlike conditions, the scientists report January 18 in Science Advances.

Now a team led by William Farrell of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, has modelled how dust could be thrown up at the moon's poles, where the solar wind blows horizontally over crater rims.