Sentences with phrase «potential threats to human health»

The medical community has long warned against overusing antibiotics in farm animals because of the potential threat to human health.

+ Remember, because rabies is a potential threat to human health, and therefore can be a legal issue, we need to follow acceptable protocol as closely as possible.

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Federal regulators described PFOA as «a chemical or material that is characterized by a perceived, potential, or real threat to human health or the environment or by a lack of published health standards» in the March 2014 document.

«The only way that this uncertainty and fear can be addressed is by speedily defining all potential sources of the contamination, the nature of the contamination, the threat the contamination poses to human health and how far it has spread.»

«If [Health and Human Services] does nothing, we can not continue to hold up these hospitals,» Cuomo told reporters and a bipartisan delegation of lawmakers in the Red Room in the Capitol, citing the example of the two Brooklyn hospitals whose deteriorating financial condition has led to threats of potential closure and in the case of Interfaith, more than a year of tumultuous bankruptcy proceedings.

Bacteriophages, or simply phages, are viruses that infect and replicate within bacteria, and they hold considerable potential for combatting antibiotic - resistance and other threats to human health.

One of the truly unique benefits of a potential partnership between the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard and Genentech is the company's deep understanding of how a science - driven, innovation pipeline can achieve breakthrough impacts in addressing complex threats to human health.

Core vaccinations are recommended for all horses because the diseases are prevalent; highly infectious; have the potential to cause serious disease or death; pose a threat to human health; or are required by law.

Free - roaming cats often lack the necessary preventative care to control these diseases and consequently pose a potential health threat to other domestic animals, wildlife and humans.»

In addition to the positive benefits of the human - animal bond connection, their shared space can shed light on potential threats to their health.

[FN53] But potential for cats to transmit diseases presents a health hazard to humans as well as a threat to wildlife, because rabies, toxoplasmosis, cat scratch fever, encephalitis (from cat scratch fever), plague, hookworms and roundworms can be contracted by humans through contact with infected cats.

As part of a larger class known as perfluorinated chemicals (PFCs), the EPA put them in the bucket of «emerging contaminants» — chemicals or materials that are characterized by «a perceived, potential, or real threat to human health or the environment.»

To ignore these questions is to decide to expose human health and the environment to real risk before changing the risky behavior, that is, a decision to not act on a serious environmental threat has grave potential consequenceTo ignore these questions is to decide to expose human health and the environment to real risk before changing the risky behavior, that is, a decision to not act on a serious environmental threat has grave potential consequenceto decide to expose human health and the environment to real risk before changing the risky behavior, that is, a decision to not act on a serious environmental threat has grave potential consequenceto expose human health and the environment to real risk before changing the risky behavior, that is, a decision to not act on a serious environmental threat has grave potential consequenceto real risk before changing the risky behavior, that is, a decision to not act on a serious environmental threat has grave potential consequenceto not act on a serious environmental threat has grave potential consequences.