Sentences with phrase «setting acceptable levels»

This is a prime example of the «precautionary principle» that has guided U.S. health agencies in setting acceptable levels of exposure to other potentially hazardous substances, such as lead.

The study sites that the EPA set an acceptable level of 10ppb (parts per billion) of arsenic in water, assuming that the majority of arsenic in water is inorganic, thus a higher risk than the organic arsenic found in rice.

Thirdly, I would dispute the interpretation that standardisation is «co-regulation», because the EU legislator has not entrusted European Standards Organisations (ESOs) with the use of their privilege to set an acceptable level of risks for all stakeholders in the society, whatever the EU regulatory purpose (health and safety, environment protection, energy efficiency, etc...).

Not exact matches

Under the philosophy of development built on the illusion that change and growth are the same as progress and that any move, especially if it goes in the direction of control and exploitation of nature is to be desired, we have set up the Euro - American culture as the mark of development, and the acceptable level of human consumption.

Some large retailers lowered the acceptable level of lead in toys well before the federal government set new standards this summer as part of a CPSC overhaul.

«The issue of changing numbers, though, is kind of a moot point,» Enck said of EPA's move in late 2015 to set a lower acceptable PFOA exposure level than previously used during the WCNY interview.

The Food and Drug Administration, recognizing the ubiquity of such insect pests, sets limits on acceptable levels of bugs rather than banning them completely from food.

Focus group findings indicate that smoking is socially acceptable in homeless settings and many individuals smoke due to high levels of boredom and stress.

Despite the relationship between these brain structure alterations and fine particle exposure, the average residential levels of fine particles in the study were well below the current acceptable limit set by the EU — only 0.5 percent of the pregnant women in the study were exposed to levels considered unsafe.

Air pollution levels in some Chinese cities, such as Beijing, are often more than 100 times higher than acceptable limits set by the World Health Organization standards, Zhang says.

It was this test that set me on a 6 - year quest to figure out how to naturally increase my testosterone levels, not just to «acceptable levels» but to the highest levels a human male could possibly naturally create.

In the rule, the FDA mentions that the agency is open to alternate approaches to addressing partially hydrogenated oils in food, such as the setting of acceptable trans fat threshold levels.

The adequacy goal for most nutrients was based on the DRI, the Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA), where one was available, and the Adequate Intake level (AI) or Acceptable Macronutrient Distribution Range (AMDR) from the IOM Macronutrient Report, along with the moderation goals from the 4th and 5th editions of the Dietary Guidelines, or Daily Values set by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the Nutrition Facts Labels.

While it is a worthwhile goal to train preservice teachers as «savvy consumers of technology,» teachers are rarely in positions of authority to make purchasing decisions and are often limited by acceptable use policies set at the district level, including filters and insufficient technology support and maintenance or access to computer labs.

In 2014 and 2015 that level will be set at 60 % of pupils achieving 5 good GCSEs or an above - average proportion of pupils making acceptable progress.

Sorting through all these apples and oranges is essential if we want to focus our attention on the true set of charter high schools that are not performing at acceptable levels — those that should face stiff questioning at renewal time.

«The PAC's recommendation that the Government should work with others in the school sector to set out what is an acceptable level of teacher workload is to be welcomed.

Automatic closure laws «identify a threshold of minimally - acceptable performance» for charter schools; schools falling below this threshold at the time of renewal, or that remain below this threshold for a set amount of time, are automatically closed.29 The National Association for Charter School Authorizers (NACSA) recommends that at a minimum closure laws define: 1) the number of years of poor performance that prompts school closures; 2) the level of performance that triggers closure; 3) what entity has discretion to make exceptions and the structure of any waiver process; and 4) if applicable, what types of schools can be exempt from closure policies or apply for waivers.

It opens with the observation that New York's low success percentages for proficiency on the Big Test are simply «unacceptable» and therefore Cuomo will make sure that the cut scores are set at more acceptable levels as determined by educators and not politicians.

Most owners will find the slightly taut suspension tuning totally acceptable, especially given the outstanding level of control it provides, although some may feel the «S» types with their even stiffer settings and lower - profile tires are a bit too harsh on anything but ultra-smooth road surfaces.

Or some setting that I configure injects a level of instability that just never recovers to an acceptable state, despite power cycling and soft resets.

Humane Canada accepts the raising and marketing of animals for food and other products where there is a standard of care that ensures the welfare of the animals and believes that the standards set out in the Recommended Codes of Practice for Farm Animals are the minimum levels of acceptable care and handling of all livestock.

Now so far I've talked about certain specs and comfort but it's time to talk about the audio quality, the microphone is an omnidirectional mic with «crystal clear chat» when I first used this headset I plugged it into a turtle beach adapter on my controller, at this point it was feeding game audio and chat audio through the headset and I managed to set the chat and game audio levels perfectly obviously this is a chat headset and was designed simply for party chat audio in mind, I plugged the headset into my Xbox controllers 3.5 mm port and tested out its functionality, I could hear the party just as clear as I would a more expensive gaming headset but obviously this time no game chat was fed through, when asking how my microphone sounded to other members of the Xbox party it was noted that it sounded superior when coming through the turtle beach adapter rather than straight into the controller but both were above acceptable especially for a chat headset.

Further, you must not publish, post, upload, transmit, distribute or disseminate content that Koch Media determines is beyond the acceptable level of content Koch Media has set for the game such as content that is illegal, harmful, abusive, threatening, vulgar, distasteful, sexually explicit, political, defamatory, obscene, embarrassing, unwanted, rude, hateful or racially, ethnically, sexually, or, in a reasonable person's view, otherwise offensive or objectionable, or encourage others to do so.

That sets the benchmark for the publics» expectations of the acceptable level of safety.

That sets the benchmark for the communities expectations of the acceptable level of safety.

(Or using a cap and trade system that does not set a floor level of «acceptable» pollution, which is only a partial approach.)

In situations where probabilities can not be defined, economic analysis can define scenarios that describe a possible set of outcomes for each adaptation measure which meet some criteria of minimum acceptable benefits across a range of scenarios, allowing the decision - maker to explore different levels of acceptable benefits in a systematic way.

The precise target the parties set for an acceptable rise in the global temperature above levels before the Industrial Revolution could have implications for everything from how many hundreds of millions of people suffer from flooding and drought to how many plant and animal species lose significant chunks of their habitats.

Today, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) sets limits for acceptable levels of asbestos exposure in the workplace.

For zoning purposes, the acceptable level of noise in sensitive zones was set at 55 dB.

As far as liability coverage is concerned, the state sets a minimum acceptable financial level of coverage for each of the three parts of a policy; anything above and beyond these minimums are strictly carried at the discretion of the Cedar Falls auto insurance policy holder.

Aside from all that, I haven't seen a «surround» set that does a decent job of hitting the balance of delivering quality sound while keeping latency at an acceptable level.

The court encouraged future contract drafters to set forth an acceptable level of radon gas in order to avoid disputes like this one.