Sentences with phrase «require lead testing»

His proposed bill would require lead testing at daycare facilities and ban lead in children's jewelry.

Concerned about children's exposure to lead found in drinking water, lawmakers met with reporters today at the state capitol in Albany to discuss a last - minute push to require lead testing in all public schools.

Just days after Gov. Cuomo signed a bill requiring lead testing in schools, three water sources in a Vorheesville elementary school have been shut down after high levels of lead were found.

Not exact matches

One test found one of the samples of Chinese imported peaches contained.2 mg per kilogram of lead, twice the Australian and New Zealand food standard requiring lead levels in fruit products be at or below 0.1 mg / kg.

They have suggested they may bar the use of lead shot and require water testing, despite the Naperville Park District's insistence that a roster of tests have shown no dangerous contamination.

In it, she reports on the possibility of using a little - noticed provision in the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act to require schools to test their drinking water for dangerous contaminants such as lead.

«The new safety law does not require resellers to test children's products in inventory for compliance with the lead limit before they are sold.

The permit requires regular testing of the water by the Naperville Park District to make sure shooting does not damage the area, and it allows for the use of steel shot only, not lead.

Pali cribs are crafted from sustainable wood from the forests of New Zealand and finished with non-toxic finishes that are regularly tested to ensure that they exceed the required standards for lead.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission is an agency within the US Federal government requiring testing by an independent agency for weight bearing while in motion and tests for lead on the buckles.

Environmental advocates are calling on state lawmakers to use the final six weeks of the session to develop and pass legislation requiring lead and copper water testing at the tap in New York schools and, if necessary, remediation of contamination.

Cuomo's office has also worked to bolster its clean water credentials, signing a bill this week that would require New York schools to test for lead in drinking water.

The state currently requires all school districts to test tap water for lead contamination.

«We have realized advances in water safety, including Senator O'Mara's lead testing bill — for the first time requiring testing for all schools.

Like the state regulations announced yesterday, the new law requires cooling towers to be registered and tested regularly for bacteria that could lead to Legionnaires» Disease.

Cuomo signed a bill last week requiring all New York schools test for lead, release results, and develop plans to fix problems.

State law requires children get tested twice for lead poisoning before they turn 3 years old.

Four years ago, the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention lowered the threshold that requires medical care for children testing positive for lead in their blood from 10 to 5 micrograms per deciliter of blood.

Even more troubling is the increase in the number of city children who recently tested positive for higher amounts of lead that require some form of intervention by health officials.

Senate GOP spokesman Scott Reif said Republicans this year passed legislation requiring water in schools to be tested for lead, secured $ 300 million for the state's Environmental Protection Fund and $ 200 million for environmental infrastructure improvements.

State lawmakers have held three hearings on water issues over the last several weeks, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo this month signed legislation that would require all schools to test for lead in school drinking water.

Lawmakers also approved a bill that would require testing for lead in public school water, and that awaits Cuomo's signature as well.

Brooklyn Sen. Jesse Hamilton is planning to introduce legislation today that would require city elementary school children to be tested for lead exposure.

A judge in Manhattan has ordered new tests for lead in New York City public housing amid revelations NYCHA did not conduct enough examinations as required by law.

The State Assembly, led by Democrats, passed a package of one house bills for Earth Day, including requiring private drinking wells to be tested before fracking occurs, and to classify fracking wastewater as hazardous waste.

The Senate approved a measure that would require schools to test water in all facilities for lead.

Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz stopped short of requiring his health department to mandate tap water sampling in homes where children are already diagnosed with high lead levels, but he did say that «maybe we do need to take additional steps, such as testing the water.»

«That includes this year's landmark achievements to fully fund the Environmental Protection Fund and the new law just signed to require schools statewide to test their drinking water systems for lead contamination.

The mailer also points to border water issues, including Marchione's co-sponsorship of a bill that would require testing of tap water in schools for lead, as well as her supporting for increasing funding for the Environmental Protection Fund by nearly 70 percent, as proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Schools will be required to test for lead in their drinking fountains and kitchens under a new law signed by the governor that had raised concerns from school districts in a battle that raged into the final hours of the legislative session back in June.

In signing the bill Tuesday, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo also directed the Health Department to issue emergency regulations to require school districts to test water for lead by Oct. 31.

Last spring, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a law requiring public school districts to test for lead by October 31st.

A state senator is planning to introduce legislation Tuesday that would require city elementary school children to be tested for lead exposure.

In September, Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a law requiring school districts across the state to conduct periodic testing for lead contamination.

The agency failed to conduct required lead - paint testing for four years — and Olatoye lied to the feds about it, a recent report by the city Department of Investigation revealed.

Perillo said he backs legislation being considered by the state Assembly to require regular testing of lead in schools.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed legislation requiring all school districts to test their water sources for lead.

While thousands of public housing tenants were told last year that lead paint inspections were necessary, the city did not disclose the reason: It had stopped doing the required tests four years earlier.

Federal guidelines now require action when a child's blood - lead level tests at least 5 micrograms per deciliter.

The tests — required as part of this year's new teacher evaluations — inspired a boycott at one school and a union - led drive to ban standardized tests for pre-kindergarten through second grade.

In November, Investigative Post reported how the Erie County Water Authority had cut corners in a program required by the federal government to test tap water for lead.

Schools constructed after 1986 are not required to conduct the testing due to federal statutes requiring the use of «lead - free» plumbing infrastructure.

«Our results indicate that systematic testing for anti-androgenic activity of currently used pesticides is urgently required,» wrote the scientists from University of London's Centre for Toxicology, led by Professor Andreas Kortenkamp.

This overuse has significant consequences, because incidental findings provoke unnecessary patient anxiety, can lead to more invasive procedures and often require follow - up testing.»

At present invasive testing is required for definitive prenatal diagnosis of these disorders, but our experience with CAH leads us to believe that NIPD will have the same diagnostic efficacy in other AR disorders.»

We are also focused on cutting the costs required to repair them,» said professor Shiling Pei, an Assistant Professor at Colorado School of Mines who is leading the tests funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and a variety of industry sponsors.

While providing no clear health benefit to emergency room patients, the extra tests also led patients to stay in the hospital longer than may have been necessary and exposed them to radiation from testing that was not required to diagnose a heart attack.

«Our study demonstrates that policy changes such as the one in Utah that required CMV testing after failed newborn hearing screening can improve the identification of infants with hearing loss, even those without congenital CMV,» said Marissa Diener, lead author and associate professor at the University of Utah's Department of Family and Consumer Studies.

The Center provides them with resources for both blue - sky and de-risking work: blue - sky research follows up on promising but uncertain scientific leads; while de-risking research is necessary to move a promising biomedical discovery through all the rigorous tests required for clinical applications.

«Marketed as a food, so it does not require testing, and added in amounts so small that is does not need to be labeled, this neurotropic compound can interfere with our natural taste for salt, leading to severe deficiencies.