Sentences with phrase «pose public health risks»

Though the air may be cleaner today than half a decade ago, exhaust from vehicles and industrial emissions still pose public health risks that might even extend beyond the lungs, as Laura Beil reports.

Consumers should rest assured that the beverage industrys containers pose no public health risk including any alleged risk associated with bisphenol - A.

«These items pose a public health risk as they can possibly transmit serious diseases if a person is accidentally «stuck» or «poked.»

But unless evidence clearly shows that e-cigs pose a public health risk, the Welsh Liberal Democrats will continue to lead the opposition in Wales on any restrictions on their use.

The recommendation follows years of protests by environmental groups who say the mushrooming of biosafety level 3 and BSL - 4 facilities across the United States since 2001 poses a public health risk.

In addition, California officials determined that the amounts found in the air near some fields and orchards posed a public health risk to bystanders.

Those unused medications can pose a public health risk if they're not disposed of properly.

Some infectious diseases are life - threatening, while others such as rabies also pose a public health risk.

Outdoor cats that inflict property damage or pose a public health risk may be subject to impoundment through a feline nuisance affidavit.

Not exact matches

Opponents say fracking poses a risk to public health and the environment but the industry says it is safe.

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Public Services, a superfund site is «any land in the United States that has been contaminated by hazardous waste and identified by the EPA as a candidate for cleanup because it poses a risk to human health and / or the environment.&Health and Public Services, a superfund site is «any land in the United States that has been contaminated by hazardous waste and identified by the EPA as a candidate for cleanup because it poses a risk to human health and / or the environment.&health and / or the environment.»

A risk assessment of over 1,300 food contact substances was carried out by Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) and found that exposures to most chemical used to produce food packaging are «low» and «unlikely to pose a public health and safety concern.»

Now more than ever, you need to take serious preventative approaches to reduce the risks that food fraud poses to public health and safety, food integrity, and your brand's reputation.

So huge numbers of diapers, full of potentially infectious bacteria, are being dumped into our waste stream and posing potential health risks to sanitation workers and our public groundwater.

The advice is that the risk to public health remains very low and the Food Standards Agency is clear that bird flu does not pose a food safety risk for UK consumers.

The Legislature's vote followed months of fact - finding, committee meetings, and public hearings in which several doctors, medical experts and public health organizations, including the Roswell Park Cancer Institute, the American Cancer Society, the American Lung Association, the Buffalo - Niagara Tobacco Free Coalition, the Wellness Institute of WNY, and the Commissioner of the Erie County Health Department warned of the dangers and risks that the emissions from Electronic Cigarettes and Vaping pose to the public's hhealth organizations, including the Roswell Park Cancer Institute, the American Cancer Society, the American Lung Association, the Buffalo - Niagara Tobacco Free Coalition, the Wellness Institute of WNY, and the Commissioner of the Erie County Health Department warned of the dangers and risks that the emissions from Electronic Cigarettes and Vaping pose to the public's hHealth Department warned of the dangers and risks that the emissions from Electronic Cigarettes and Vaping pose to the public's healthhealth.

Cuomo acknowledged that the plant had reported that the leak did not pose an immediate public health risk.

Emissions from one company — Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. — account for almost half the risk the pollution potentially poses to public health in Niagara County, Investigative Post determined.

The law broadened the definition of banned assault weapons, increased penalties for illegal gun possession, reduced public access to gun permit information and required mental health professionals to report concerns about a gun - owning patient who posed a risk of harming himself or others.

ALBANY — A long - awaited study released by the Cuomo administration on Wednesday determined several «red flags» about hydraulic fracturing that could pose «significant public health risks,» officials said at a public meeting of Governor Andrew Cuomo and his cabinet.

«I want a provision that if we find that we have created a system that poses a public safety risk or public health risk, that we can stop the sale of marijuana,» Cuomo added.

As scientists at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health recently found while investigating whooping cough outbreaks in and around Michigan, «geographic pockets of vaccine exemptors pose a risk to the whole community.»

This research from the Department of Public Health, Policy and Social Sciences adds to the growing body of evidence that suggests baby - led weaning does not pose a choking risk, as long as those foods known to be a choking risk to babies are avoided.

Nuclear fuel processing, the work that would have been done at the proposed Jiangmen project, poses little risk to public health, according to industry experts and the industry lobby group, the World Nuclear Association.

Courts in Rhode Island rarely require abusers to turn in their firearms, even when orders prohibit them from possessing firearms under federal law and there is evidence they pose a lethal risk to victims, according to research presented today at the American Public Health Association's 2016 Annual Meeting and Expo in Denver.

«The emergence of A H7N9 influenza in March 2013 posed a public health threat both locally and internationally because of the risk for airborne transmission,» said K.Y. Yuen, MD, FRCPath, a lead author of the study.

The public health risk posed by these domestic HPAI outbreaks is considered low at this time, but it is possible that human infections with these viruses may occur.

At first, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the contaminant posed little risk to public health, because concentrations of crude MCHM were measured at less than 1 part per million.

But he cautions that further study is needed to determine whether this strain poses a major risk to public health.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS) in Washington, D.C., yesterday held the first public meeting of a new committee of academic and industry researchers, tasked with forecasting what biotechnologies will emerge in the next 5 to 10 years, and what new types of risk they might pose to the environment or human health.

The six - person Near - Term Task Force that dived into the implications of Japan's nuclear disaster concluded in its July 12 report that «continued operation and continued licensing activities do not pose an imminent risk to public health and safety.»

The intent of the language in those bills is for the agency to focus only on the risks that a chemical poses to public health and the environment.

«This is a clear call for deepened dialogue between researchers, government agencies, citizens, and policy makers, so that we can improve data sharing and find sustainable solutions to reduce the public health risks posed by these bacteria.»

At the opposite end of precipitation extremes, drought also poses risks to public health and safety.192 Drought conditions may increase the environmental exposure to a broad set of health hazards including wildfires, dust storms, extreme heat events, flash flooding, degraded water quality, and reduced water quantity.

Even with corrosion control, Edwards said the continued use of lead pipes throughout the country poses a constant public health risk.

But lifting the public health emergency signals to the world that the WHO believes the outbreak no longer poses a risk to other countries or requires coordinated international action.

The potential risk to public health posed by this trend prompts the questions: Are these amateur biologists dangerous, and if not, could they be in the future?

Public interest in possible health threats posed by EDCs is on the rise, leading to development of federal and state policies designed to regulate or mediate perceived EDC health risk.

The rapid identification of genetic risk factors for common, complex diseases poses great opportunities and challenges for public health.

A 2003 study by the nonprofit Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) found that due to a combination of pollution and deteriorating equipment and pipes, the public water supplies in 19 of America's largest cities delivered drinking water that contained contaminant levels exceeding EPA limits (either legal limits or unenforceable suggested limits) and may pose health risks to some residents.

Because such individuals have associated «corn sugar» to be an acceptable ingredient to their health when «high fructose corn syrup» is not, changing the name for HFCS to «corn sugar» could put these individuals at risk and pose a public health concern.»

-- 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.

While the public expresses shock and newspapers blame social conditions resulting in excess animals, few people understand the dynamics of hoarding, a mental illness that results in horrific animal neglect, and often poses health risks to the people around it.

The dog meat trade also poses a threat to public health, with the World Health Organisation warning that the trade spreads rabies and increases the risk of chhealth, with the World Health Organisation warning that the trade spreads rabies and increases the risk of chHealth Organisation warning that the trade spreads rabies and increases the risk of cholera.

Statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that cats are rarely a source of disease, and that it is unlikely for anyone to get sick from touching or owning a cat.3 «Feral cats pose even less risk to public health than pet cats because they have minimal human contact, and any contact that does occur is almost always initiated by the person,» says Ackerman.

The state's Department of Land and Natural Resources says feral cats pose risks to public health and wildlife, and they're all over boat harbors and facilities.

«Cats and dogs that eat raw meat diets are also more likely to become infected with antibiotic - resistant bacteria than animals on conventional diets, which could pose a serious risk to both animal health and public health.»

Organized veterinary medicine, that reaped great profits for the drug companies selling antibiotics, vaccines and a host of other drugs, never voiced concern over the proliferation of cruel factory farms, so - called concentrated animal feeding operations that now blight rural America, helped put family farms out of business and now pose significant environmental and public health risks.

If the State Public Health Officer finds that importation of dogs or cats from these areas could pose a risk of outbreak of any communicable disease that is dangerous to people, the State Public Health Office could issue an order prohibiting importation of those dogs or cats.

Beyond the issue of social irresponsibility that relates to importing stray animals into a country that has worked to solve its own stray animal problem for most of this century, a significant public health risk is posed by the mass importation of animals from countries where standards of veterinary medicine are not as high as they are in the US and where diseases and parasites that are not found here currently may be endemic.