Sentences with phrase «posing potential health risks»

Since the relaxation of E.U. quarantine rules in recent years,» Dungler acknowledged, «there have been various problems with the import of animals into the U.K., sometimes coming from terrible conditions and even posing potential health risks.

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.

Energy drinks pose potential health risks because of the stimulants they contain, and should never be consumed by children or adolescents.

The AAP has stated that they find no role for energy drinks for kids, stating that «energy drinks pose potential health risks primarily because of stimulant content; therefore, they are not appropriate for children and adolescents and should never be consumed.»

At 2:30 p.m., Mayor Richard Thomas and members of his administration will announce the City of Mount Vernon's plan to zap the Zika virus by engaging in community outreach and aggressively cleaning up properties that pose a potential health risk, 349 Union Ave., Mount Vernon.

Meanwhile, after studying the issue for years and coming under intense political pressure from the left wing of his Democratic party, the Cuomo administration claimed fracking poses potential health risks and banned the practice in New York in late 2014 just weeks after his reelection.

Although carbon capture and storage has attracted a growing number of advocates, including environmental groups like the Natural Resources Defense Council, it has also attracted its fair share of detractors, such as Greenpeace, and skeptics including the U.S. Geological Survey's Yousif Kharaka (pdf), who has shown that leaking CO2 can make surrounding water acidic, mix with brine and leach metals, and pose potential health risks to people and wildlife.

«Metals from Bolivian mines affect crops and pose potential health risk, study suggests.»

In a recent study, University of Missouri researchers found that these particles could pose a potential health risk to humans and the environment.

Consuming this desert perhaps once a week or less will probably do no harm, but eating this type of food too often could indeed pose some potential health risks.

If you're looking for a natural deodorant that will last and won't pose potential health risks from added aluminum, thoroughly mix:

In the first part of the special report Sick Schools: A National Problem, Education World news editor Diane Weaver Dunne describes how environmental conditions in school may make students sick, yet no federal laws protect students from exposure to contaminants that pose potential health risks.

Nearly one - fifth of the nation's population spends its days in school buildings, yet no federal laws protect students and teachers from environmental conditions in or near those buildings that pose potential health risks.

In addition to possibly causing illness in your pet, many of these parasitic worms also pose potential health risks for you and your family, especially children.

Unfortunately, this same type of mischief can sometimes pose a potential health risk to your beloved pets.

Heavy rain events may also pose a potential health risk; one recent study found that about half of all waterborne disease outbreaks in the U.S. (between 1948 and 1994) were linked to days of very heavy rain.

Even if it is not against the law in your state to throw used sharps into a household trash can, doing so can pose potential health risks to waste workers, janitors or anyone who handles the garbage.

International travelIf you have visited places that pose potential health risks, for instance, you travelled to a country with a high incidence of tropical diseases or HIV, then the premium calculation will be on the higher side.

Drinking can pose a potential health risk.

Not exact matches

Down to Earth is opposed to the development of products containing GMOs because we believe they may pose health, safety, and other potential risks that far outweigh the purported benefits.

Recent research has shown that particularly when passing through our digestive tract, sweet potato cyanidins and peonidins and other color - related phytonutrients may be able to lower the potential health risk posed by heavy metals and oxygen radicals.

But as the market becomes more aware of the role of nutrition in health and well - being, there is concern about the potential risk posed by preservatives and other additives.

Some protein powders and quite sadly, a few of the one's I've tried and tested, contain ingredients that serve no purpose, are only used to «bulk» out the protein and ultimately, can pose a potential risk to your health.

The little ray of sunshine, according to the study, is that it is possible to make plastics that don't contaminate food — on a cost - effective, commercial scale — eliminating the «potential health risk posed by most currently available plastic products.»

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.

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.

«Severe preeclampsia poses much higher health risks to the mother and child, so linking it with a factor that we can easily treat, like vitamin D deficiency, holds great potential.»

This poses a serious dilemma for health care professionals, said study authors Kate Sweeny, assistant professor of psychology at UC Riverside, and co-author Amanda Dillard, assistant professor of psychology at Grand Valley State University: Should they withhold accurate risk information from unrealistic pessimists to avoid undermining their perceptions of the severity of their potential consequences and ultimately their motivation for preventive behavior?

The two biologists note in their paper that while applications of MCR offer potential solutions to important problems in health and human welfare, it could also pose serious potential risks in the wrong hands.

The health risks posed by PAHs are a real concern for humans, because they can cause cancer, and the potential for exposure is increasing.

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?

The House Science and Technology Committee introduced legislation today that highlights the growing attention on Capitol Hill to the need to strengthen federal efforts to learn more about the potential environmental, health and safety (EHS) risks posed by engineered nanomaterials.Introduction of the bill comes only months after J. Clarence (Terry) Davies authored a report that makes a series of recommendations for improving federal risk research and oversight of engineered nanomaterials at EPA, the FDA and the CPSC.

Protein shakes have many potential benefits, and for most people, they don't pose any significant health risks.

Yeah, «the cancer risk posed by hijiki consumption exceeds... acceptable» cancer risk levels by an order of magnitude, but the Japanese Ministry of Health stresses the potential «health benefits,» lots of «fiber and minerals,» as if hijiki was the only weed in thHealth stresses the potential «health benefits,» lots of «fiber and minerals,» as if hijiki was the only weed in thhealth benefits,» lots of «fiber and minerals,» as if hijiki was the only weed in the sea.

After the investigation, the AVMA decided that raw and undercooked protein offers a potential source of bacteria and poses health risks to pets as well as people.

For example, some veterinarians view acetaminophen as posing more potential health risks than aspirin while others see it as exactly the opposite.

This also poses a significant human health risk through the potential transmission of animal - borne diseases, such as rabies and cholera — and, of course, even more dangers to those who later choose to consume the meat.

«The general use of the pesticide DDT will no longer be legal in the United States after today... the continued massive use of DDT posed unacceptable risks to the environment and potential harm to human health.»

«Tom Webster, associate chair of environmental health at Boston University's School of Public Health and a paper coauthor, says scientists are particularly concerned about the potential risk that such chemicals pose to small children, who can unintentionally consume relatively large amounts of dust.&health at Boston University's School of Public Health and a paper coauthor, says scientists are particularly concerned about the potential risk that such chemicals pose to small children, who can unintentionally consume relatively large amounts of dust.&Health and a paper coauthor, says scientists are particularly concerned about the potential risk that such chemicals pose to small children, who can unintentionally consume relatively large amounts of dust.»

Identifying high - risk items within a hotel room would allow housekeeping managers to strategically design cleaning practices and allocate time to efficiently reduce the potential health risks posed by microbial contamination in hotel rooms.

A federal law enacted in 1973 requires all mattresses to meet certain guidelines designed to prevent cigarette - ignition, so most conventional mattresses are treated with toxic fire - retardant chemicals that pose significant potential health risks.

Professor Lofstedt made many sensible suggestions such as exempting from health and safety law those self - employed whose work activities pose no potential risk of harm to others, simplifying the disclosure requirement for pre-action protocols and reviewing the requirement for strict liability in some regulations.

With these rules in place, the FDA can begin to collect data to determine whether or not e-cigarettes pose a health risk similar to traditional tobacco products, or whether they have the potential to serve as smoking cessation tools, which some insurers take a kinder view of.

Even if you're very healthy with optimal weight, no chronic health conditions such as high blood pressure or elevated cholesterol, your family history and lifestyle could pose other potential risks.

These concerns were in the news again recently after British scientists suggested restricting cell phone use by children, and ABC's 20/20 subsequently rebroadcast a controversial segment about potential health risks posed by certain cellular handsets.