Sentences with phrase «polychlorinated biphenyl»

Pure Color of the Hudson (after Rodchenko) Remediated polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) mud obtained from General Electric dredging site, processed waste coal from power plants in the Hudson Valley on Sintra, in Matthew Friday's Space as Substance: Beyond the Scenic Hudson, 2015.

Phthalates — which have been linked with reproductive abnormalities — are also on the list, along with polychlorinated biphenyl, or PCBs.

Five percent of the 1,007 women in one such study had troubling levels of polychlorinated biphenyl (or PCB 188), which has been linked to breast cancer and weight gain.

As a result, they are lower in nutrients and higher in toxins — including carcinogens, polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB), brominated flame retardants, and pesticides such as dioxin and DDT.

Research produced by the Environmental Working Group in 2003 showed that farmed salmon were contaminated with high levels of polychlorinated biphenyl's (PCB's).

Breastfeeding your baby will protect him or her against polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB), which causes poor concentration and bad verbal memory.

Craft E.S., Crofton K.M., DeVito M.J. «Comparative Responsiveness of Hepatic Enzyme Induction and Hypothyroxenemia in Long Evans Rats versus C57BL / 6J Mice Exposed to TCDD - like and PB - like Polychlorinated Biphenyl (PCB) Congeners» (2002) Toxicological Sciences, 68 (372 - 380).

Probably the last place anyone would want to find airborne polychlorinated biphenyl compounds (PCBs) is in the kitchen, yet that's exactly where scientists detected their presence, according to a new report in ACS» journal Environmental Science & Technology.

To appear on the Super Green List, the salmon must provide the daily minimum of omega - 3s (at least 250 milligrams per day) based on 28 grams of fish, and have PCB (polychlorinated biphenyl) levels under 11 parts per billion (ppb).

Mercury and PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyl) concentrations were at the EPA threshold for occasional human consumption, while concentrations of DDT were consistently much lower than the established threshold.

In Chicago's air, the most prevalent compound, known as D5, was at levels three times greater than what polychlorinated biphenyl (PCBs) typically are there.

Boston - based GE completed removal of 2.75 million cubic yards (2.1 million cubic meters) of polychlorinated biphenyl - contaminated sediment from the river in 2015.

«We are deeply concerned that unsupervised demolition work by Success Academy over the summer caused potential contamination of the school with asbestos and polychlorinated biphenyl (PCBs),» said UFT President Michael Mulgrew in a letter to Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott, dated April 25.

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand released a letter asking EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy to reevaluate and reverse the decision to stop dredging because of lingering polychlorinated biphenyl hotspots in the upper river.

The reason for this is that not only do they have mercury, but oily fish like salmon, trout, mackerel, tuna and herring can contain pollutants such as dioxins and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs).

The parcel has a long history of pollution, including high concentrations of polychlorinated biphenyls, from its decades as a scrap metal recycling facility.

In fact, the E.P.A. says the lake that Martens bobbed around in for about ten minutes while wearing a life jacket contains the following substances: «mercury, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs); pesticides; creosotes; heavy metals including lead, cobalt, and mercury; polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs); and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) such as chlorobenzene.»

Exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls can cause cancer.

Local officials say the EPA has directed the removal of polychlorinated biphenyls — or PCBs — around the Dewey Loeffel Superfund Site in the Town of Nassau.

The company, which operated electric capacitor factories in Fort Edward and Hudson Falls, for years dumped an estimated 1.3 million pounds of PCBs — polychlorinated biphenyls — in the river until the practice was banned in 1977 amid concerns that the chemicals are carcinogenic.

European whales and dolphins may be at risk of extinction from the effects of polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, a team of researchers recently reported in Scientific Reports.

Toxic blasts from the past Beginning in the mid-2000s, scientists observed higher levels of certain POPs, including hexachlorobenzene and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), at the Norwegian research station.

Higher blood levels of pollutants such as bisphenol A (BPA), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and hexachlorobenzene (HCB) have been found in mothers with failed IVF attempts, according to a handful of recent studies.

Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), the pesticide DDT and other banned compounds dropped about 50 percent in fish in Lakes Michigan, Ontario and Huron from 1999 through 2009, although there were no significant changes in Lakes Superior and Erie fish, according to the study to be published this month in the journal Science of the Total Environment.

Researchers report today that organochlorine chemicals — specifically DDT and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)-- may affect how testicles mature and function.

For four decades, from 1929 until 1971, a Monsanto plant in West Anniston produced chemicals called PCBs, polychlorinated biphenyls.

Men with higher levels of DDE — a breakdown product of the pesticide DDT — and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), which were used in transistors and electronics, at 14 years old had higher rates of abnormal sperm.

(Among the banned substances are polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, which can cause cancer and liver dysfunction.)

A new study led by biologist R. Thomas Zoeller of the University of Massachusetts Amherst provides «the strongest evidence to date» that endocrine disrupting chemicals such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) found in flame retardant cloth, paint, adhesives and electrical transformers, can interfere with thyroid hormone action in pregnant women and may travel across the placenta to affect the fetus.

For the first time, long - standing villains such as pesticides, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and mercury have been linked to weakened immune systems and developmental deficits in Inuit children.

Dr Hauptmann said: «The microbial potential to degrade anthropogenic contaminants, including polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), and the heavy metals mercury and lead, was found to be widespread, and not limited to regions close to human activities.»

Researchers cruising off the western coast of Africa have confirmed the presence of mysteriously high levels of airborne toxic polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs).

They found that regions with higher recorded levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were associated with bears having a less dense baculum, which may prevent successful mating.

It also red flags varieties known to contain high levels of mercury, a metal associated with neurological problems and birth defects, as well as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), organic compounds that are assumed carcinogens and have also been linked to reproductive problems.

The finding may lead to a natural, environmentally friendly approach to reducing PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls), which were banned for use by the U.S. Congress in 1979 but still permeate U.S. soils, waterways, and living organisms.

Based on building materials used in the Arctic at the time, the authors speculate the site contains polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), pollutants toxic to human health, along with an unknown volume of low - level radioactive coolant from the nuclear generator.

The study is the first to link asthma to hexachlorobenzene exposure during fetal development, and builds on two earlier studies that linked the respiratory disease to polychlorinated biphenyls.

Despite advisories against consuming the creek's fish because of high levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), the EPA says the area attracts roughly 15,000 anglers each year, particularly those flyfishing during fall salmon runs.

New, unpublished research has found that polychlorinated biphenyls — banned in the United States 35 years ago — are leaching out of clothing and printed materials from around the world

Rowles said they will test for contaminants to see if dolphins with high levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) or other man - made toxins were affected more severely.

Included were brominated flame retardants, organochlorine pesticides such as DDT and polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs.

Activists claimed that the Oriental Nicety, too, was contaminated with asbestos and polychlorinated biphenyls, a persistent organic pollutant.

In the early 1980s, the river was polluted with polychlorinated biphenyls — PCBs — from three aluminum foundries upstream of the Akwesasne.

Lead, for example, seems to cause a greater IQ deficit in boys than girls, and some evidence suggests that polychlorinated biphenyls, PCBs, may have similar consequences, Carpenter said.

The trial demonstrated that olestra — a zero - calorie fat substitute found in low - calorie snack foods such as Pringles — could reduce the levels of serum polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in people who had been exposed to PCBs.

The implication is that flame retardant chemicals called polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) can infiltrate the placenta during pregnancy and affect thyroid hormone activity at the cellular level, according to a new study published in the Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM).

That material includes everything from buildings and railways, to tanks of diesel fuel, radioactive coolant, and likely an unknown amount of toxic polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs).

The research, published in PLOS ONE, found that polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), a chemical once used in industrial equipment, such as electrical components and certain paints, accumulates in the fat tissue of whales, dolphins and porpoises — known collectively as cetaceans — and can remain there throughout their lifetime.

Included are organophosphate pesticides, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), phthalates and perfluorinated compounds.

Today, a decade later, Ramos is worried about the health of her two sons growing up in a community contaminated by an old burn dump containing polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs).