Sentences with phrase «other chemicals in the environment»

So at that point you said, all right, we're done with pesticides — now we can move forward to the thousands of other chemicals in the environment?

Or, aging polymers may react with other chemicals in the environment.

Pesticides, flame - retardants, plastics, and other chemicals in the environment that can disrupt hormones may also be partly to blame.

This means that if you have red hair, I mean natural red hair, that would mean that maybe you really are more sensitive to pain and you also probably have a harder time detoxing some other chemicals in your environment.

Not exact matches

Trainers from OSHA will come to your business and provide 10 - to 30 - hour programs to cover environmental issues, how to work around hazardous materials and how to recognize various chemicals, in addition to other necessary tools to prepare your crews for the industrial environment.

Hormone changes due to induced abortion may indeed be related to breast cancer, but there are other known causes of hormone changes that we should worry about, including the widespread use of chemical contraceptives, fertility drugs that cause hormone surges, increased obesity and fat content in the diet that change the body's estrogen metabolism, and last but not least, chemical contaminants in the environment that mimic estrogen....

Other tasks involved in the position involve lifting, moving, pulling, pushing and tapping 35 lb + cases of bottles and cans, moving full kegs onto and off of pallets, climbing ladders, working with chemicals, and working in a team environment.

Other performance properties include toughness, light weight and durability in aggressive chemical (e.g., acetic acid) environments.

What I find most frightening is that there is no testing to determine what happens when multiple products are used concurrently or sequentially, or what happens when they combine with other chemicals (synthetic and natural) in the environment or in organisms.

Organic farming practices ensure no chemicals or pesticides are used in the production of most Equal Exchange products — which protects the farmers, the surrounding environment, birds and other wildlife, as well as the people who enjoy these products.

Created with our little ones and the environment in mind, Seventh Generation is the natural choice for high - quality and effective products free of fragrances, latex, chlorine and other harmful chemicals.

My son no longer has an allergic reaction... it has pointed me in other directions of cloth reusable items to save money (cloth paper towels, wipes, toilet paper, menstrual pads) I save TONS now and I feel happy knowing its less chemicals, my baby is happy, and I am doing a small bit to help the environment.

1962 saw the publication of «Silent Spring» by Rachel Carson, which detailed the damaging impact of DDT and other chemicals on the environment, and played a key part in popularising environmentalism.

Numerous scientists I interviewed — from entomologist John Tooker at Penn State University, to Galen Dively and prominent entomologist Dennis vanEngelsdorp at the University of Maryland, to Pettis and others — said the number of chemicals in our environment is so vast that assessing all of their possible interactions is virtually impossible.

Moreover, greater attention had been paid in recent years to the biotechnological potential of microorganisms that produce enzymes and other chemical compounds that help them survive in such a harsh environment.

Although such a polymer would be immune to protein - destroying entities, Grate expects other things in the environment such as bacteria will break it down, based on TZP's chemical nature.

In the current study, Yu - Shang Lee, PhD, of the Cleveland Clinic, together with Jerry Silver, PhD, of Case Western Reserve Medical School, and others, used a chemical that promotes cell growth along with a scar - busting enzyme to create a more hospitable environment for the nerve graft at the injury site.

«The brain along with the reproductive system and every other cell in your body is exquisitely sensitive to exceedingly small changes in estrogen and other sex hormones, and the fact that the environment is full of chemicals that can activate estrogen receptors means this phenomenally sensitive system is being perturbed constantly by environmental factors.»

As caterpillars grow, they take on a characteristic chemical signature of the environment, with hydrogen, oxygen and other elements fixed in tissues in varying amounts.

«The amount and diversity of pesticides, pharmaceuticals and other industrial chemicals that humans are releasing into the environment are increasing at rates that match or exceed recent increases in CO2 emissions, nutrient pollution from nitrogen fertilizers, and other drivers of global change,» Bernhardt said.

One of the main concerns in cleaning up oil spills (and other industrial waste) is the addition of new chemicals into the environment.

«We don't have a good understanding of how different chemicals interact with each other in the environment,» Larsen said.

The researchers are now working on sensors that could be used to monitor other biological properties, such as pH. «We hope this is the first of many types of solid - state contrast agents where the material responds to its chemical environment in such a way that we can detect it by MRI,» Cima says.

Bamboosa, like many other U.S. bamboo clothing companies, is a customer of Hebei Jigao Chemical Fiber Company in northeastern China, which advertises its product as a «natural and environment - friendly fiber.»

So, whereas the typical person might think of their «environment» as their house, or their neighborhood - scientists trying to understand the factors that influence the development of schizophrenia define environment to include everything from the social, nutritional, hormonal and chemical environment in the womb of the mother during pregnancy, up to the social dynamics and stress a person is exposed to, to street drug use, education, virus exposure, vitamin use, and any other factor that could possibly be involved with the development of schizophrenia.

The excited atoms, in turn, emit signals that can be used to create images of the brain, muscle, and other tissues, which can be distinguished based on the local physical and chemical environment of the water molecules.

chemical ecology The study of how plants and animals use chemicals and chemical signals in their interactions with each other and their environment.

These strategies are: (1) physical separation by temporarily converting the two enantiomers into two diastereomers (called resolution); (2) physical separation in a chiral chromatographic environment; (3) chemical discrimination in a chiral environment (using enzymes or other chiral platforms as chemical reagents); and (4) asymmetric synthesis of one enantiomer in preference to the other.

Environmental factors such as maternal infection or exposure to toxic chemicals during pregnancy may heighten the risk in ways that aren't yet understood, and the environment may combine in other ways with genetic factors after birth to cause the condition.

While some physicians are confident in the human body's ability to regulate itself, others express a sense of uncertainty about the effect of the growing presence of new chemicals in our environments.

The idea that the chemicals in shampoo are bad for the environment, on the other hand, is unfounded, says Dr. Rogers.

It processes literally everything that passes through our body, and it's safe to say that most of us probably have a chemical overload — toxins enter our body from numerous places in our environment (pollution, car fumes, cigarette smoke, sun exposure), food (additives, chemicals, artificial flavours, sweeteners, food colouring) and body care products (sodium lauryl sulfate, and too many others to name!)

They are pesticides and other toxic chemicals used in the environment that are estrogenic in nature, that is; the body identifies them as estrogen and allows them to attach to estrogen receptor sites in the breast, and other areas.

There are so many other reasons for cancer to be taken in account, i.e. stress, inherited genetics, chemical & nuclear contamination of the whole environment we live in (less and less natural materials around), bad habits (smocking & alcohol), lack of physical activity, which results in bad metabolism and inability for our bodies to release toxins, etc, etc..

These harmful substances include: pesticides, medications, Bisphenol - A and other chemicals found in our environment, hormones from food, the birth control pill and air pollution.

On the other hand, if it's grass - fed dairy you're eating, it's less important that it's also labeled as organic since the cows will naturally be exposed to less chemicals in a pasture - raised environment.

Other synthetic chemicals used in food production, and found in our environment, appear to damage the thyroid gland, which secretes hormones that regulate metabolism.

We're all exposed to Persistent Organic Pollutants (POP's) that don't biodegrade in the environment, and many other types of carcinogenic, hormone - disruptive, and neurodegenerative chemicals that our body doesn't eliminate well.

Between all the medications, refined foods, additives, alcohol, pesticides and other chemicals we are exposed to in the environment, the ability of our systems to adapt and detoxify can become challenged.

Thus, free oils are no longer intermixed with the naturally - designed and balanced environment of proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals, and ten thousand other chemicals found originally in the plants.

They don't normally live in the environment because they are sensitive to the presence of oxygen, UV light and other chemicals found in the natural environment.

These chemicals include mercury, lead, benzene, solvents, and other compounds found in our everyday environment — carpets, mattresses, plastic utensils, plastic water bottles, fire retardants found in furniture and children's pajamas, etc..

Kimchi and other fermented vegetables contains essential probiotics which everybody nowadays (in chemical loaded environment) are lacking of.

Detox treatments are usually recommended due to exposure to toxic chemicals in the diet or environment, like synthetic chemicals, pollutants, heavy metals and other dangerous elements.

Even though there's a risk of poisoning in an indoor environment as well, you're better able to remove toxic plants, toxic chemicals and other dangers in order to keep them out of your cat's reach.

Minimizing the use of vaccines, pharmaceuticals and other chemicals and toxins, such as cleaning products, fertilizers, etc., in his environment will also contribute to more robust immunity.

Other risk factors, such as cancer - causing or oncogenic chemicals, may be found in the pet's environment or diet (formaldehyde, chlorine - containing compounds, nitrites, etc.).

These terms suggest environment - friendly farming methods and avoidance of pesticides, non-natural fertilizers or chemicals — in other words, the purest and most natural ingredients and conditions possible.

In addition, the chemical is among the six greenhouse gases that the E.P.A. is proposing to regulate under its recent finding that carbon dioxide and other substances pose a risk to human health and the environment.

(through drastic slashing of manufacturing technologies, draconian cap and trade taxation, repossession of private property, and a whole host of other proceedures of questionable value), and on the other, you have the alternative medicine quack that says «The pain is all in your mind» (EG, the non-scientists that say that human released carbon dioxide has no impact on the environment whatsoever, in spite of the fact that this is not supported by even the slightest bit of chemical evidence.)