Sentences with phrase «potential for human exposures»

These three were chosen based on their potential for human exposures through their widespread use in many foods and consumer products — like toothpastes, cosmetics, sunscreens, coatings, and paints — and because of their potential to wind up in treated drinking water.

The report concluded that Marcellus Shale gas production has become more common near places essential for everyday life in West Virginia, increasing the potential for human exposure to toxic chemicals.

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«Over a dozen studies show current human exposure to biologically active levels of this chemical, creating a potential for a variety of health implications.»

«The potential for chronic, low - dose exposure to impact and elicit human disease has only begun to be investigated,» he added.

The rule provides a framework for potential licensure of medical products when definitive efficacy studies that would involve exposing healthy human volunteers are unethical and field trials after accidental human exposure are not feasible.

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 study has earned high marks from researchers not on the soy industry's payroll, including Dan Sheehan, PhD and Daniel Doerge, PhD at the FDA's National Laboratory for Toxicological research in Jefferson, Arkansas.who stated, «Given the great difficulty in discerning the relationship between exposures and long latency adverse effects in the human population and the potential mechanistic explanation for the epidemiological findings, this is an important study.

However, there is a general thesis that because of the potential for synergistic effects, human exposure to all endocrine disrupters, such as the soy isoflavones, requires urgent reduction (8).

According to scientists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cats are consistently the number - one carrier of rabies among domestic animals and pose a «disproportionate risk for potential human exposure.»

Among the risks the continent faces are reductions in food security and agricultural productivity, particularly regarding subsistence agriculture, increased water stress and, as a result of these and the potential for increased exposure to disease and other health risks, increased risks to human health.»

Potential impacts of climate change on the transmission of Lyme disease include: 1) changes in the geographic distribution of the disease due to the increase in favorable habitat for ticks to survive off their hosts; 85 2) a lengthened transmission season due to earlier onset of higher temperatures in the spring and later onset of cold and frost; 3) higher tick densities leading to greater risk in areas where the disease is currently observed, due to milder winters and potentially larger rodent host populations; and 4) changes in human behaviors, including increased time outdoors, which may increase the risk of exposure to infected ticks.

IPCC Working Group II Contribution to AR5 The Working Group II contribution to the Fifth Assessment Report considers the vulnerability and exposure of human and natural systems, the observed impacts and future risks of climate change, and the potential for and limits to adaptation.

Responsible for the assessment of potential human health effects from exposure to environmental contaminants at and around hazardous waste sites