Sentences with phrase «risk to human health»

This is because rabies poses a serious risk to human health.

Accordingly, safe chemical management is essential in avoiding risks to human health and international trade.

Once a product has been released for 20 years with no reported risks to human health and the environment, it can continue to be released or placed on the market without further approval.

However, with such enormous opportunities come unknown risks to human health and well - being.

Two have already been released; one found little risk to human health, while an economic analysis indicated that there might be future benefits to consumers and farmers.

It's not yet clear whether organic (or conventional) soil contains enough of these metals to pose a genuine risk to human health.

Climate change poses risks to human health through shifting weather patterns, increases in the frequency and intensity of heat waves and other extreme weather events, rising sea levels, and ocean acidification, among other environmental effects.

Extreme heat poses significant risks to human health, particularly to vulnerable populations like the elderly.

The framing of ocean impacts in terms of risks to human health appeared to depoliticize perceptions.

Arguments over the potential risks to human health and the environment have raged ever since.

Overall, the report says «among all industrial sources of air pollution, none poses greater risks to human health and the environment than coal - fired power plants.»

Is there well documented evidence that there are risks to human health in using tampons versus another alternative?

A 2015 study that compared the toxicological threshold of marijuana for risk to human health with that of other drugs found that alcohol posed the highest risk, followed by heroin, cocaine and nicotine.

Such a conclusion has implications for risk communicators, including those seeking to disseminate messages about imperceptible environmental risks to human health through earned media ⎯ such as scientists, health professionals, government regulators, and others ⎯ the authors added.

But since climate scientists already expect a wide range of negative consequences from rising temperatures, including higher sea level, more weather extremes and increasing risks to human health, anything that accelerates warming is a concern.

Drawing on the work of over 80 scientists from 12 countries, it sets out the likely nature and scale of changes to come and also looks at the probable economic consequences ocean warming poses as well as associated risks to human health and well - being.

Conversely, they also found instances where the conventional tests flagged bacteria that weren't likely risks to human health.

Researchers suggested that although this particular virus does not pose a direct risk to human health as it only targets amoebae, the rise in global temperature and subsequent melting of the Earth's ice could herald the return of other lost viruses.

The institute runs a website that promotes the «life - enhancing value of chemicals» while sowing doubt about «fear - mongering» scientific studies that show risks to human health and the environment from pesticides and other products.

In practice, MRLs are set well below levels that pose even a small risk to human health.

As scientists puzzle over how genes for antibiotic resistance arise in various environments and what risks to human health they might pose, one team has identified a surprising way some of these genes are getting into ocean sediments: through food for marine fisheries.

The specter of existential threats is raised to reflect the grave risks to human health and species extinction from warming beyond 5 ° C, which has not been experienced for at least the past 20 million years.

Over the past decade, expert panels assembled by the National Research Council have examined possible risks to human health and the environment, such as gene flow between organisms.

MCMH should not be swallowed and may readily cause skin and eye irritation but it is not known to pose major risks to human health and safety.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) grants licenses, or registrations, to pesticides that it has found do not pose unreasonable risks to human health and the environment; it has registered at least 865 pesticides, which are used in thousands of pesticide products.

Finding a preservative system that will withstand the test of time without risk to human health is a challenge.

Greater awareness about the cruelty involved and the very real risks to human health from diseases such as cholera and rabies will eventually extinguish the industry.

However, the FDA has now taken a zero - tolerance policy for Salmonella in pet food because «it can pose risks to human health when people who are «at risk» come into direct contact...» This is opening up the debate on whether killing all bacteria (good and bad) through High Pressure Pasteurization is the right decision.

The American Chemistry Council continues to say «Human exposure to BPA from can coatings is minimal and poses no known risk to human health.»

Widespread use of the herbicide 2,4 - D carries a range of risks to human health, animals, and the environment, a

A recent re-analysis of the drug's safety suggests that there could be potential risk to human health.

In its notice of decision dated March 16, 2018, Health Canada declared that «changes made in this rice variety did not pose a greater risk to human health than rice varieties currently available on the Canadian market», further noting that «GR2E would have no impact on allergies, and that there were no differences in the nutritional value of GR2E compared to other traditional rice varieties available for consumption except for increased levels of provitamin A.

Yet in the US this is still a topic of debate, with industry supporters trying to downplay the inevitable fact that this irresponsible use of antibiotics is most likely posing a serious risk to human health and the environment.

The studies, which covered all areas of concern, have «not shown any new risks to human health or the environment, beyond the usual uncertainties of conventional plant breeding.

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.»

We promote the health, productivity, and welfare of food - and fiber - producing animals, companion animals, and zoo and wildlife populations, to ensure the safety of foods of animal origin and to prevent animal disease with its associated risks to human health.

«Numerous organisations have recognised that use of antibiotics in agriculture poses risks to human health,» says Avinash Kar, a San Francisco - based lawyer with the Natural Resources Defense Council, which initiated legal action last year to try to force the FDA to phase out the growth promoters.

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Public Services, a superfund site is «any land in the United States that has been contaminated by hazardous waste and identified by the EPA as a candidate for cleanup because it poses a risk to human health and / or the environment.»

In addition, all Golden Rice field trials in the Philippines are conducted under permits issued by the Bureau of Plant Industry of the Department of Agriculture (DA - BPI), the national regulatory authority in the Philippines for crop biotechnology R&D, after they established that the trials will pose no significant risks to human health and the environment.

The field trials were permitted by the Department of Agriculture Bureau of Plant Industry (DA - BPI), the national regulatory authority in the Philippines for crop biotechnology research and development, after establishing that the trials will pose no significant risks to human health and environment.

The field trials have been permitted by DA - BPI, the national regulatory authority in the Philippines for crop biotechnology research and development, after establishing that the trials will pose no significant risks to human health and environment.

The volume or mass of a waste does not indicate its risk to human health or the environment.

In the Philippines, multi-location field trials for a genetically modified (GM) crop like Golden Rice is only permitted after the DA - BPI reviews the plans and establishes that there will be no significant risks to human health and the environment posed by the test.

No risk to human health is anticipated from the field trials.