Sentences with phrase «serious risk to human health»

While the best - known pollution in Mexico is Mexico City's air, which mainly comes from the combustion of vehicle fuel, it's not the only place with a problem or the only kind of pollution in circulation posing a serious risk to human health.

The trade involves animal cruelty, criminal activity including theft of pets, and serious risk to human health, with the World Health Organization linking the trade to cholera and rabies.

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

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.

Not exact matches

Just as research has shown that smoking has a serious negative effect on health and the world's health organizations now strongly recommend against it, not breastfeeding has been shown to have definite health risks and consequences, and breastfeeding is now clearly understood to be the normal way to feed a human baby.

The sale of human breast milk on the internet poses serious risks to infant health and needs urgent regulation, argue experts in The BMJ today.

The two biologists note in their paper that while applications of MCR offer potential solutions to important problems in health and human welfare, it could also pose serious potential risks in the wrong hands.

There are estimated to be over 50,000 different species of mold, but only about 200 present serious health risks to humans or animals.

However, carotenoids are not considered essential, as deficiencies in them do not always pose a serious health risk to humans, in contrast to deficiencies in key vitamins like iron, calcium, and vitamin C. However, for lifelong wellness and the prevention disease, astaxanthin — and other carotenoids including lycopene and lutein — play a crucial role in every stage of life.

Because of the serious health risks to both pets and humans, the rabies vaccine is required by law in most areas of the country, including Virginia.

Massachusetts in particular is a magnet and a distribution center for relocated surplus pets and strays... Some diseases and parasites pose serious health risks for human health as well as for dogs and other species... Dogs are a leading vector for rabies in many poor countries... Given the incubation period for rabies, from five days to several years, with 20 - 60 days being the norm, unquarantined importation of street dogs from poor countries with low rates of vaccination for rabies, is a disaster waiting to happen...»

Climate change is only one of many types of environmental change effecting Earth's life support systems — in fact, there is now a serious risk that the dramatic gains to public health made since the 1950s could plateau or even reverse as a result of human degradation of a myriad of natural systems.

The only way to block a project with a renewable energy approval (REA), according to the legislation, is that an appellant must prove the risk posed by the project will cause «serious harm to human health,» or «serious and irreversible harm to plant life, animal life or the natural environment.»

Recalling the concern reflected in the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, entitled «The future we want», 1 that the health of oceans and marine biodiversity are negatively affected by marine pollution, including marine debris, especially plastic, persistent organic pollutants, heavy metals and nitrogen - based compounds, from numerous marine and land - based sources, and the commitment to take action to significantly reduce the incidence and impacts of such pollution on marine ecosystems, Noting the international action being taken to promote the sound management of chemicals throughout their life cycle and waste in ways that lead to the prevention and minimization of significant adverse effects on human health and the environment, Recalling the Manila Declaration on Furthering the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities adopted by the Third Intergovernmental Review Meeting on the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities, which highlighted the relevance of the Honolulu Strategy and the Honolulu Commitment and recommended the establishment of a global partnership on marine litter, Taking note of the decisions adopted by the eleventh Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on addressing the impacts of marine debris on marine and coastal biodiversity, Recalling that the General Assembly declared 2014 the International Year of Small Island Developing States and that such States have identified waste management among their priorities for action, Noting with concern the serious impact which marine litter, including plastics stemming from land and sea - based sources, can have on the marine environment, marine ecosystem services, marine natural resources, fisheries, tourism and the economy, as well as the potential risks to human health; 1.

The activists declare their faith in the doctrine «that the problem of human - caused climate change is real, serious and immediate, and that this problem poses significant risks» to everything from national security via health and agriculture to biodiversity.

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.

«Hazardous air emissions are linked to a whole range of serious and immediate human health risks,» said Georges C. Benjamin, MD, FACP, FACEP (E), executive director of American Public Health Associhealth risks,» said Georges C. Benjamin, MD, FACP, FACEP (E), executive director of American Public Health AssociHealth Association.

Writing in the journal Geophysical Research Letters (GRL), Diffenbaugh concluded that hot temperature extremes could become frequent events in the U.S. by 2039, posing serious risks to agriculture and human health.

Triclosan and triclocarban are common additions to liquid hand soaps and a wide range of skin care products and are supposed to perform antibacterial functions, but CELA's study in the Great Lakes region has shown that they pose serious risks to the environment and to human health.