Sentences with phrase «pressing public health concerns»

Foodborne outbreaks of Salmonella remain a pressing public health concern.

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As urbanization brought more and more people to the cities, local officials possessed of the late Victorian concern for cleanliness and scientific approaches to sanitation led technocrats to press city - dwellers towards these professionals through enforceable public health standards.

Some of the concerns opponents of the project at the press conference expressed were: perceived risk to public health of drinking Hudson River water; effect on wildlife of the Haverstraw Bay; and rising costs of water for United Water customers and Rockland businesses.

The Retro Report piece finds no evidence in more recent science of anything approaching a public health concern, and ample evidence that the early burst of scary proclamations and press coverage had a lasting effect on public perceptions.