Sentences with phrase «toxic chemical tests»

~ Those toxic chemical test kits that you can buy in the hardware store do not always give accurate readings.

Not exact matches

The testing / rating means that they are free from synthetic ingredients, fillers, pesticides and toxic chemicals.

Don't forget to sign the MomsRising online petition to tell Congress and the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC): «Testing children's products for toxic chemicals must be a priority.

The non-toxic finish has been tested for lead and other toxic chemicals and exceeds government and ASTM safety standards.

For radon, an inexpensive test kit that's available at home - improvement stores will be reliable to make sure your home is safe from this toxic chemical.

However, over 1/3 of all seats tested had one or more components which contained higher levels of toxic chemicals.

Cherish — Beauty by Nature is an all natural essential oils skin care range that is not tested on animals and that is without any toxic ingredients, additives and chemicals.

Unsurpassed testing for material safety — our products undergo rigorous chemical and biologic testing to insure they do not contain toxic chemicals

Toxic chemicals are a concern for parents and Mountain Buggy constantly tests their products.

Their report notes that the risks from other toxic chemicals including formaldehyde, styrene, tricholorethylene, the pesticide chlorpyrifos and many others have been downplayed and regulations have been delayed or denied due to similar industry - backed computer modeling tests — in many cases, even when the industry tests are contradicted by actual biologically - based experiments.

As far as safety goes, the bed meets all ASTM and CPSC standards, and has been tested for toxic chemicals.

5 Phases glass baby bottles have been inspected and tested by a third party for known toxic and harmful chemicals.

For a product to earn an Oko - Tex seal it has to pass stringent ecological testing for over 100 harmful substances including pesticides, mercury, formaldehyde, lead and other toxic and poisonous chemicals.

ALBANY — The state will declare the polluted water of Hoosick Falls a Superfund site, conduct a health risk analysis of its residents and test more water wells to address toxic chemicals that have leached into a town water well, Cuomo administration officials announced alongside local elected leaders during a press conference Wednesday.

The House - passed measure calling for regular testing combined with an expanded high - priority list of toxic chemicals is a step in the right direction.

In what is good news for the Vermont Fire Academy in Pittsford, state tests for a toxic chemical in water sources on and around the site have come up with no detectable levels.

The state Department of Health has sent out the first results to 370 residents whose blood was tested for a toxic chemical found in Newburgh's water supply.

The state tested the farm's well field and said the results indicated the water in that area is free of the toxic chemical, perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA, that was discovered in the village's water supply three years ago.

And even as multiple wells in nearby Hoosick Falls tested positive for elevated and potentially dangerous levels of the same toxic chemical more than a year ago, state health department employees suggested a delay in reporting results and did not initially recommend a wider outreach to the public, according to emails between state, county and federal officials, some of which were obtained through a Freedom of Information Law request to the federal Environmental Protection Agency.

A recent round of state tests on 145 water wells in the town of Hoosick and village of Hoosick Falls showed slightly less than a third indicated a presence of a toxic chemical at levels exceeding the safety threshold recently set by the Environmental Protection Agency.

The state will declare the polluted water of Hoosick Falls a Superfund site, conduct a health risk analysis of its residents and test more water wells to address toxic chemicals that have leached into a town water well.

Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin said more wells in North Bennington have tested positive for the toxic chemical PFOA.

HOOSICK FALLS — State officials said on Friday that they did not test water in Petersburgh for the toxic chemical PFOA in 2014, even though a state employee privately raised the possibility of its presence in the water supply, because it was not on federal regulation lists.

The test came back positive for a toxic chemical.

Cuomo pushed a package of water quality measures last year, culminating in a budget appropriation of $ 2.5 billion for water infrastructure, new testing requirements for smaller water systems like the one serving Hoosick Falls and state authority to set new limits for toxic chemicals like the one found in the Rensselaer County village.

Before the vote, several residents at the town board meeting spoke against the purchase, particularly without first having the soil tested for toxic chemicals.

Three New York lawmakers — Schumer, U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney — are calling on the federal Environmental Protection Agency to immediately test the city of Newburgh's water supply, which has been found to be contaminated with a toxic chemical.

Months after water in Newburgh tested positive for elevated rates of a toxic, cancer - linked chemical, the state does not have a plan to conduct blood tests for thousands of residents who likely consumed the polluted water for years.

ALBANY — Thousands of Newburgh residents may have been exposed to a toxic chemical linked to cancer in their water supply but it's unclear if the state plans to conduct blood tests.

HOOSICK FALLS - Residents were shocked Monday when the testing of sites contaminated with a toxic manufacturing chemical revealed levels significantly higher than originally reported.

Shumlin says the federal government is not doing its job testing chemicals while operating under a toxic law that was last updated in the 1970s.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday the state has no plans to conduct blood tests on residents in the city of Newburgh, where thousands may have been exposed to a toxic chemical linked to cancer, unless «the facts justify it.»

After a meeting with members of the community to hear their accounts of the fallout of the pollution — including diminished property values and blood testing that revealed many residents have higher - than - normal concentrations of the toxic chemical in their bodies — Nixon will take part in a news conference with former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Regional Administrator Judith Enck, according to her campaign.

HR 2576 updates the 40 - year - old Toxic Substances Control Act by removing barriers to repeat chemical testing, mandating new safety reviews, and making information more available to the public.

The Hoosick Falls parents, children and teachers say they are frightened over the high levels of the toxic chemical PFOA found in their blood in recent tests conducted by the state health department.

In the wake of the closing of a Bronx schools contaminated with a toxic chemical, two advocacy groups and eight members of the City Council have written to Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott demanding immediate testing of city school on leased property and a public disclosure of he results.

He told Moore that her blood test had uncovered high levels of two toxic chemicals — 2 - methylpentane and 3 - methylpentane — both derived from petroleum products.

The agency has ordered testing on just 200 compounds and restricted or banned only five since it gained the authority to regulate new chemicals in 1976 under the Toxic Substances Control Act.

To test the validity of the method, a second study examined 10 key hazards under the purview of the Department, including earthquakes, hurricanes, tornados, pandemic influenza, nuclear detonation, explosive bombing, anthrax attack, cyber-attack on critical infrastructure, accidents involving toxic industrial chemicals, and oil spills.

Apple's pledge apparently did not apply to products already in the pipeline: The recent Greenpeace study, Missed Call: iPhone's Hazardous Chemicals, points out that half of the iPhone components analyzed tested positive for bromine — whose vapors are toxic if inhaled — even though the device debuted a month after Apple's «A Greener Apple» proclamation.

Such a tiered approach, they note, is already at the heart of the European Union's REACH program for testing toxic chemicals, which could serve as a model for nanomaterials toxicity testing in the United States.

What's more, the EPA generally tests only to see if chemicals are acutely toxic, rather than looking at the effects of long - term exposure.

If we could use computers to predict whether a compound would have a toxic effect on people, chemical safety testing would be a lot simpler.

The test detects antibodies that form in response to the gas, and it could open the door to skin tests for exposure to other toxic chemicals, including run - of - the - mill environmental pollutants.

In an article published in Moscow News last month, he claimed that, despite official assurances that the Soviet Union had discontinued production of chemical weapons in 1987, the institute had continued its chemical weapons research and had recently tested a new toxic agent in Kazakhstan — withouttheknow - ledge of Kazakhstan's President, Islam Karimov.

A bipartisan effort to revamp how the U.S. government tests and regulates toxic industrial chemicals reached a new milestone last week when a Senate panel easily advanced a measure to overhaul the Toxic Substances Control Act (Ttoxic industrial chemicals reached a new milestone last week when a Senate panel easily advanced a measure to overhaul the Toxic Substances Control Act (TToxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).

Tests are available that can detect high arsenic levels and tend to capture arsenic exposure over longer histories than other toxic chemicals.

The research is part of the Lab's iCHIP (in - vitro Chip - Based Human Investigational Platform) project, which replicates human systems on engineered platforms to test the effects of toxic chemical and biological compounds.

The new AquaDx chip will work with the hand - held MyDx portable analyzer to test for the presence of toxic chemicals or elements in water in about six minutes.

This requires acutely toxic and known, cancer causing chemicals in or next to the surface of all mattresses — even organic ones (untreated organic wool can not pass this test as it burns at 600 degrees).