Sentences with phrase «poses risks to human health»

Climate change poses risks to human health through shifting weather patterns, increases in the frequency and intensity of heat waves and other extreme weather events, rising sea levels, and ocean acidification, among other environmental effects.

«Numerous organisations have recognised that use of antibiotics in agriculture poses risks to human health,» says Avinash Kar, a San Francisco - based lawyer with the Natural Resources Defense Council, which initiated legal action last year to try to force the FDA to phase out the growth promoters.

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.»

However, Professor Holmes was also quick to emphasise that these fish viruses do not pose a risk to human health and should be viewed as a natural part of virus biodiversity.

BPA is no longer used in baby bottles and sippy cups in the United States, but the federal Food and Drug Administration has maintained the levels that may leach from canned goods into food do not pose a risk to human health.

Under current rules, member states wishing to ban specific GM crops must present fresh scientific evidence that the crops pose a risk to human health or the environment.

«Consumers often mistake «use by dates», which refer to highly perishable goods that pose a risk to human health if consumed after a certain period, with «best before dates» which merely indicate a food's reduction in quality but not safety,» Hamilton and her colleagues wrote.

«An EU Directive on e-cigarettes rules that: «except for nicotine, only ingredients are used in the nicotine - containing liquid that do not pose a risk to human health in heated or unheated form».

The EU Tobacco Products Directive notes that e-liquids should not contain ingredients that pose a risk to human health.

«Multidrug - resistant bacteria from chickens pose risk to human health.»

However, it does not pose a risk to human health, as it is species - specific.

Animal protection organisations formed the Asia Canine Protection Alliance to end the inhumane dog meat trade responsible for slaughtering an estimated 5 million dogs for human consumption per year and posing a risk to human health.

For the September From Shore to Sea lecture Dr. Pamela Yochem discussed the role and significance of marine mammals in spreading influenza viruses that may pose a risk to human health.

Details of Operation Cleansweep was released into the public realm to provide «reassurance» that residual contamination at UK sites did not pose a risk to human health or the environment.

As defined by the EPA, a Superfund site is any land in the United States that has been contaminated by hazardous waste and identified as a candidate for cleanup because it poses a risk to human health and / or the environment.

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.

It will reduce exposure to the many toxins in plastic that pose a risk to human health, such as bisphenol A, styrene, lead, and phthalates, and you will have less plastic waste to send to landfill or recycling.

Radiation detected off the U.S. West Coast from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan has declined since the 2011 tsunami disaster and never approached levels that could pose a risk to human health, seafood or wildlife, scientists say.

Air pollutants such as black carbon, nitrates and sulphates penetrate into the body's cardiovascular and respiratory systems posing risks to human health.

There is some evidence that this pesticide poses a risk to human health, as well.

It's while they're airborne that particles pose a risk to human health and affect climate, according to the study.

The Environmental Working Group specializes in fomenting «health scares» about food, pesticides and other products using a predictable methodology: releasing a study which concludes that exposure to an everyday item — baby food, cosmetics, breast milk, tap water, fruits and vegetables — ultimately poses a risk to human health.

More than 75,000 chemicals are registered currently with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and only a fraction of them have undergone proper testing to assess whether they pose risks to human health.

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The jury may be out still on whether trace amounts of the popular herbicide glyphosate pose health risks to humans, but industry insiders predict mounting consumer fear about the possibility will pressure more food and beverage manufacturers in 2018 to...

Foods produced from genetically engineered crops don't pose additional health risks to humans, a study concludes.

In addition, all Golden Rice field trials in the Philippines are conducted under permits issued by the Bureau of Plant Industry of the Department of Agriculture (DA - BPI), the national regulatory authority in the Philippines for crop biotechnology R&D, after they established that the trials will pose no significant risks to human health and the environment.

The field trials were permitted by the Department of Agriculture Bureau of Plant Industry (DA - BPI), the national regulatory authority in the Philippines for crop biotechnology research and development, after establishing that the trials will pose no significant risks to human health and environment.

In its notice of decision dated March 16, 2018, Health Canada declared that «changes made in this rice variety did not pose a greater risk to human health than rice varieties currently available on the Canadian market», further noting that «GR2E would have no impact on allergies, and that there were no differences in the nutritional value of GR2E compared to other traditional rice varieties available for consumption except for increased levels of provitaHealth Canada declared that «changes made in this rice variety did not pose a greater risk to human health than rice varieties currently available on the Canadian market», further noting that «GR2E would have no impact on allergies, and that there were no differences in the nutritional value of GR2E compared to other traditional rice varieties available for consumption except for increased levels of provitahealth than rice varieties currently available on the Canadian market», further noting that «GR2E would have no impact on allergies, and that there were no differences in the nutritional value of GR2E compared to other traditional rice varieties available for consumption except for increased levels of provitamin A.

it doesn't fully address the difference between inorganic arsenic (which poses a health risk) vs. organic arsenic (which is not known to pose a health risk and is actually needed in low levels by the human body as noted here).

Indeed, in February, SI posed three basic questions about the nature of 7 - footers (population size, factors responsible for height, and health risks) to the membership of the Human Anatomy and Physiology Society.

Caustic soda has been approved for textile manufacturing by the Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS), and when handled and disposed of appropriately, this product should not pose health risks to humans.

Medical societies were warning that BPA's similarity to estrogens could disrupt the human hormone system and pose health risks, especially to fetuses and newborns.

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In practice, MRLs are set well below levels that pose even a small risk to human health.

AAAS CEO Rush Holt urged the Trump administration on Tuesday to work with the scientific community to reduce the risk climate change poses to human health and the environment, reiterating that climate change is real and its impacts are already evident.

Unbiased evidence is hard to come by, but the few peer - reviewed studies carried out indicate that the risks fracking poses to human health and the environment are small.

The existential threats could include species extinctions and major threats to human water and food supplies in addition to the health risks posed by exposing over 7 billion people worldwide to deadly heat.

In the Vet Record today, a team of researchers based in The Netherlands say these diets may be contaminated with bacteria and parasites, and as such may pose a risk to both animal and human health.

Guest editor Paul Whaley of Lancaster University Environment Centre said: «When it comes to determining the risk which chemicals pose to human health and the planet, scientists sometimes struggle to come up with a clear answer because there is no universally accepted system for weighing up the available evidence.

Meanwhile, USAID representatives say that, when used properly, the chemical poses little risk to the environment or to human health.

For the current study, researchers spiked soil with a mixture of PCBs at concentrations commonly found in soils and sediments — and which pose a potential risk to human and environmental health.

Such scaremongering is especially painful to me because even though I do not think that government - approved GMO foods pose meaningful health risks to consumers, and even though I believe strategic genetic engineering can be an important tool to ease human suffering on our warming and resource - constrained planet, I share the concerns of many environmentalists about the homogenization and consolidation of the global food system — trends that are accelerated by the spread of industrially produced GMOs.

The sale of human breast milk on the internet poses serious risks to infant health and needs urgent regulation, argue experts in The BMJ today.

Researchers are already exploring the dangers that hitchhiking microbes from Earth would pose to potential alien life, as well as the risk of alien microbes to the health of human astronauts.

The test is increasingly used as a method of assessing substances — including drugs and cosmetics — that could pose a potential risk to human or environmental health by causing damage to DNA.

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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.

Some researchers, however, have argued that exposing humans to DDT poses health risks.

Most nanotechnology poses no new risk to human health or the environment, concludes a study commissioned by the UK government.