Sentences with phrase «potential public health threats»

In 1997, the City Council revised the animal control ordinance to: require licensing of cats and dogs; require a kennel permit for more than four cats or four dogs; regulate the number of animals that may be adopted from the city shelter; define animal cruelty and animal nuisance; and give city officials authority to control potential public health threats.

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Public action to prevent the birth of genetically handicapped offspring by mandatory means — a potential public threat revealed in the current debate over community rating of health care insurance — is unjustPublic action to prevent the birth of genetically handicapped offspring by mandatory means — a potential public threat revealed in the current debate over community rating of health care insurance — is unjustpublic threat revealed in the current debate over community rating of health care insurance — is unjustified.

The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, part of the Public Health Service, reported to the city and the Elmhurst Park District that a study it conducted concluded that «methane migration from the park poses a potential health threat via fire and explosion «and inhalation to residents to the north and east of theHealth Service, reported to the city and the Elmhurst Park District that a study it conducted concluded that «methane migration from the park poses a potential health threat via fire and explosion «and inhalation to residents to the north and east of thehealth threat via fire and explosion «and inhalation to residents to the north and east of the site.

A recent meta - analysis of 11 studies that investigated the association of bed - sharing and SIDS revealed a summary OR of 2.88 (95 % confidence interval [CI]: 1.99 — 4.18) with bed - sharing.158 Furthermore, bed - sharing in an adult bed not designed for infant safety exposes the infant to additional risks for accidental injury and death, such as suffocation, asphyxia, entrapment, falls, and strangulation.159, 160 Infants, particularly those in the first 3 months of life and those born prematurely and / or with low birth weight, are at highest risk, 161 possibly because immature motor skills and muscle strength make it difficult to escape potential threats.158 In recent years, the concern among public health officials about bed - sharing has increased, because there have been increased reports of SUIDs occurring in high - risk sleep environments, particularly bed - sharing and / or sleeping on a couch or armchair.162, — , 165

As appropriate, these data are shared with local healthcare officials and providers to keep them aware of current and potential threats to the public's health.

Hazardous waste is waste that poses substantial or potential threats to public health or the environment and generally exhibits one or more of the these characteristics: ignitability, corrosivity, reactivity or toxicity.

The National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity has defined DURC as «life sciences research that, based on current understanding, can be reasonably anticipated to provide knowledge, information, products, or technologies that could be directly misapplied to pose a significant threat with broad potential consequences to public health and safety, agricultural crops and other plants, animals, the environment, materiel, or national security».

«The scope of the epidemic and the fact that cases were imported into the United States and Europe reinforces the importance of these viruses as pathogens and public health threats, and drives home for us the idea that we need to be looking really seriously at ways we can translate our basic science into potential therapeutics.

The Department of Health has supported the idea of needle exchanges for drug users in Britain since 1987 on the grounds that HIV is a greater potential threat to public health than hard Health has supported the idea of needle exchanges for drug users in Britain since 1987 on the grounds that HIV is a greater potential threat to public health than hard health than hard drugs.

Gene drives have the potential to address public health threats, conservation - related issues, agricultural pests, and other challenges.

«Our synthetic biology pipeline for rapid sensor design and prototyping has tremendous potential for application for the Zika virus and other public health threats, enabling us to rapidly develop new diagnostics when and where they are needed most.»

In fact, the purpose of New York's Animal Population Control Program Fund, as written into law, is to «reduce the population of unwanted and stray dogs and cats thereby reducing incidence of euthanasia and potential threats to public health and safety posed by the large population of these animals.»

EAG IV focused on multidrug - resistant bacterial recently emerged in companion animals and regarded as potential threats to animal and public health.