PFOA was not a regulated contaminant and did not have enforceable standards.
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Dioxin, a toxic contaminant, seeped into the ground and nearby water sources.
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It functions as a sort of environmental contaminant; it&aposs completely natural.
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The contaminant, called glycidyl fatty esters (GE), is formed during the refining process.
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In drinking water, EPA's maximum contaminant level for the chemical is 700 ppb.
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Arsenic was the most common contaminant spotted in the Clean Label Project study.
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If a contaminant is found in one pot, the entire batch is discarded.
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Mr. Breja's lawsuit did not specify what the contaminant in the nicotine pods was.
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A Mylan spokeswoman did not immediately respond to questions about what the contaminant was.
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Arsenic, uranium and lead -- the contaminant causing problems in Flint -- fall under this category.
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The Trump administration is moving to ease standards on a particularly deadly air contaminant.
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Well, it claims to be the world's only self-cleaning and contaminant detecting towel.
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We have some indications that it's an old bacteria, not a modern or laboratory contaminant.
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The contaminant: per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, a sprawling chemical family with thousands of members.
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Mishandling the knife may mean fingerprints rubbed off, and adds to the likelihood there's contaminant DNA.
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I work in a clean or contaminant-controlled room and wear a lab coat and gloves.
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Levomethorphan, a chemical five times stronger than morphine, was the contaminant that had caused the deaths.
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In 1928 Alexander Fleming accidentally discovered penicillin produced from a fungal contaminant in a petri dish.
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"Stop the criminal contaminant behavior of big corporations," said Bruno Rodriguez, a climate activist from Argentina.
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The study's authors calculated cancer risk by looking at the reported contaminant levels from 2011 to 473.
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Unregulated contaminants For its report, the Environmental Working Group reviewed the EPA's third Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule.
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Lead is a tricky contaminant because it's everywhere: in our pipes, in our plumbing, in our faucets.
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He wants money and an order prohibiting Xzibit and others from marketing the product as contaminant free.
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NDMA is a known environmental contaminant found in water and foods, including meats, dairy products, and vegetables.
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After extra chlorine was added to treat that bacteria, levels of a contaminant from extra chlorine also increased.
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"In fact, Apple has a patent for this exact tech designed to "prevent and/or alleviate contaminant ingress.
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"It's not fair to say that a contaminant could never possibly be in Orange County's water," Siegel said.
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To those following the EVALI outbreak closely, the CDC's focus on the contaminant hardly comes as a surprise.
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He had with him two plastic cups of water, to one of which had been added a contaminant.
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"We're looking at one contaminant among many, and this is one risk factor among many," Dr. Desforges said.
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NDMA is a known environmental contaminant and found in water and foods, including meats, dairy products, and vegetables.
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Opioids remain at high levels, but the surge in drug use is now heroin and the powerful contaminant fentanyl.
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EPA's proposed standard for perchlorate released Friday suggests placing the maximum contaminant level at 56 parts per billion (ppb).
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A 2008 report identified TCE as the "principal contaminant" at the base, which is now its own Superfund site.
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They were each charged with reckless emission of air contaminant and endangerment of persons under the Texas Water Code.
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A subsequent investigation linked the allergic reactions to a contaminant introduced during the production process of a Chinese supplier.
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Also today, authorities have found a contaminant in marijuana vaping products that is likely linked to a deadly disease.
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"Hence, our hypothesis that fish-associated contaminant exposure may play a role in the observed associations remains speculative," Chatzi said.
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Beyond that, only one of two Space Station toilets can accept blood, which is treated as a contaminant, she said.
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Obviously, the advent of mass production and agrochemicals have lead to the occasional contaminant finding its way into German beers.
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"This contaminant started way back in 2012, so why did it take six years to come to light?" she asked.
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"Entry teams covered the entire building with a variety of meters and found no contaminant that would be hazardous," she said.
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Lead levels at two schools were found to have exceeded the maximum contaminant standards issued by the federal Environmental Protection Agency.
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They're also reasonably safe, meaning they passed heavy metal contaminant screenings and tested free of stimulants, depressants, and other prohibited drugs.
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Triclosan is a common ingredient in antibacterial liquid soaps and an environmental contaminant that is incompletely eliminated in water treatment plants.
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"I don't think the present rules are even remotely adequate," Murray McBride, a soil contaminant researcher at Cornell University, told me.
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Carbon dioxide levels reached 21.5 parts per million, a unit used to measure the level of a contaminant in the air.
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Carbon dioxide levels reached 407.8 parts per million, a unit used to measure the level of a contaminant in the air.
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The issues are two-fold: one, China wants nearly "contaminant-free" shipments and are no longer willing to accept anything less.
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Listeriosis is a serious infection typically caused by eating food contaminated with the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes, the contaminant found in the ham.
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The results are fishy, to say the least, and more detailed laboratory analyses are underway to verify the nature of the contaminant.
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Lonza points to analyses by multiple drugmakers demonstrating rFC was comparable to the crab-blood tests in ensuring drugs were contaminant-free.
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When your stomach digests GE, the contaminant breaks down and releases glycidol, which has been found to cause tumors in lab mice.
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REUTERS: Jumping onto PFAS, the kind of process how EPA addresses PFAS and PFOA, ... why didn't EPA set the maximum contaminant level?
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And in Zanesville, Ohio, in the east-central part of the state, the water contains high levels of the group contaminant THMs.
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The Santa Rosa well showed 0.7 parts per billion of PCE, the industrial contaminant, which is also known as tetrachloroethylene, Edwards said.
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In the US, the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sets maximum contaminant levels (MCLs) as part of the Safe Drinking Water Act.
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It is the same contaminant that was found in some versions of valsartan, a blood-pressure drug carrying the brand name Diovan.
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Because he'd never undergone a medical procedure using radiopharmaceuticals, the researchers believe that he inhaled the radioactive contaminant while incinerating other bodies.
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US officials are working to track down a chemical contaminant that is potentially behind a rash of lung illnesses connected to vaping.
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I put the idea of guns as an environmental contaminant to John Rosenthal, a gun owner and founder of Stop Handgun Violence.
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I put the idea of guns as an environmental contaminant to John Rosenthal, a gun owner and founder of Stop Handgun Violence.
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PERC can also leech into the air, soil, and water when spilled, becoming a long-term and at times far-traveling environmental contaminant.
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These markers can also indicate when a block is damaged, say on account of a local contaminant or an error on the surface.
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The two companies said they were monitoring the contaminant issue and were working with their suppliers to keep GE at lowest possible levels.
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Though plastic straws have dominated conversations for those looking to cut down on pollutants, cigarette butts are the most pervasive man-made contaminant.
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By law, every community water system is required to provide an annual report to residents that details the water source and contaminant levels.
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The contaminant started appearing in shipments of Russia's Urals crude on European pipelines and on tankers loading in the Baltic Sea in April.
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In 2016, the EPA included bromide in the Safe Water Drinking Act as an unregulated contaminant to be monitored by public water systems.
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The artist recalls yielding and entertaining those concerns at the moment, only to commemorate later the adobe's resistance and agency as a contaminant.
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Water in 14 fixtures out of 92 exceeded the EPA maximum contaminant level for lead under the Safe Drinking Water Act, the district said.
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Arsenic is one of the most common elements in the Earth's crust and a natural contaminant in water in many regions of the world.
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Unfortunately, the team can't say with complete certainty the yeast came directly from the old beer and is not instead an unusual contaminant effect.
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It opens the door to attacks on climate science, toxic contaminant cleanup plans, and clean air standards that have prevented thousands of premature deaths.
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He did similar work on PFOA, a chemical that was used to make Teflon, 1,4-dioxane, a frequent drinking water contaminant -- and many more.
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"The MDEQ letter also outlines an ongoing plan to continue collecting samples and replacing lead pipes, which it said were a "typical source of contaminant.
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Why have they not used deeper core sections from before industrial revolution, to test whether these are free of the contaminants and contaminant-associated genes?
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The astronauts were in quarantine for 21 days, while medical staff were ready in the event the astronauts suddenly got sick from some unknown contaminant.
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In the midst of a national opioid crisis, the opioid may be the most attention-grabbing contaminant found, but it could be the least worrisome.
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Arsenic has been the most widespread chemical contaminant — the army has carted off thousands of tons of tainted soil and replaced it with clean topsoil.
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The contaminant in "Sheba" is Marie (Hannah Elless), a pretty coed who rents a room from Doc (Joseph Kolinski) and his wife, Lola (Ms. MacRae).
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Acute or prolonged exposure to ionizing radiation is harmful, and plutonium-239, the most abundant contaminant at rocky flats, is known to be particularly toxic.
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"The poison, the contaminant in a flake, will be there as long as the flake is there," barrister for the Commonwealth, Martin Scott, told the court.
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It is moving toward a "maximum contaminant level" for the two most notorious types of PFAS, and listing them as "hazardous substances," another important legal standard.
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To rid soil of chemicals like perchloroethylene, or perc, used in dry-cleaning, air is sucked out of the earth to extract the contaminant, he said.
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Second, that some contaminant — most likely THC oils like vitamin e acetate — became more widely vaped last summer, and that it's likely responsible for the cases.
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" In April, CalEPA regulators formally listed chlorpyrifos as a "toxic air contaminant," meaning the state believed it "may pose a present or potential hazard to human health.
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"We are moving forward with several important actions, including the maximum contaminant level process, that will help affected communities better monitor, detect, and address PFAS," Wheeler said.
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The amount of released contaminant is far below federal permissible limits and the leak was reported to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and state agencies voluntarily, Entergy said.
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"By the time everyone was really ill, that slug of water had gone through the system, and so it was indeterminate what that contaminant was," Subra said.
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Trader Joe's was the only grocery store I found that said 'We ensure our products are contaminant and junk-free because we work directly with our sources'.
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"It's very lipophilic, which means it stays in the fat, and the females transfer a huge proportion of the contaminant burden to their offspring," Dr. Hanson said.
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The shortage is evidence of unexpectedly high demand, driven not only by novelty, experts say, but also by the desirability of government-regulated cannabis — it's contaminant-free.
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We stopped using tap water to mix her supplemental formula, but our anxieties returned a few months later when rumors started to circulate about a new contaminant: lead.
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When refined at around 200 degrees Celsius, the study says, palm oil releases a contaminant known as glycidyl fatty esters (GE) in higher levels than other vegetable oils.
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But the wasp yeast could make sour beer in just a few weeks with just yeast, reducing risk of bringing bacteria or other "contaminant" yeasts into the brewery.
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" According to Moran's March testimony, determining the cause of these incidents has been complicated by the fact that "symptoms related to depressurization, tissue hypoxia and contaminant intoxication overlap.
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Last May the Italian-based EFSA said palm oil generated more of a potentially carcinogenic contaminant than other vegetable oils when refined at temperatures above 200 degrees Celsius.
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EPA officials eventually ordered the city to take immediate actions to reduce lead content, but the decision came at least six months after the dangerous contaminant was discovered.
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Even if EPA determines to set nationwide maximum contaminant levels under the Safe Drinking Water Act for PFOA and PFOS, that regulatory process is likely to take years.
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Neither is that multi-contaminant IoT sensor you plan on putting in every household — what's the point anyway when people already know that their water is full of crap?
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That impurity was discovered in July when FDA lab tests determined that some medications containing valsartan were contaminated with a chemical called NDMA, an environmental contaminant and possible carcinogen.
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Air and drinking-water supplies are also polluted by the contaminant, as G.E. shuts down and demolishes its plants along the upper Hudson, moving jobs out of state. Gov.
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PCBs remain the highest chemical contaminant in the whales' blubber, and are known to disrupt the whales' reproductive, endocrine, thyroid and immune systems, harm their brains and trigger cancer.
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That's not enough to have a toxic effect, Korosi said, but a greater reliance on in situ mining in the oil sands could push contaminant levels over the top.
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In 2014, legislators in that state adopted a "maximum contaminant level" of 10 parts per billion, a level that appeased the state's chemical companies but disappointed environmental groups, including EWG.
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Danang is also the site of a joint United States-Vietnamese cleanup of dioxin, the chemical contaminant in Agent Orange that has been linked to birth defects and other diseases.
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The House-passed version of the NDAA would have forced the cleanup of PFAS under the Superfund law and would have directed the EPA to set a maximum contaminant level.
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The House-passed version of the NDAA would have forced the cleanup of PFAS under the Superfund law and would have directed the EPA to set a maximum contaminant level.
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A report on the effect of shelling in Syria says the ravaged country will also be facing "problematic soil and water contaminant" in the long-term, after the bombing ends.
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No other study, as far as he knows, has linked nitrates to mental illness (though they have been linked to conditions like cancer when found in drinking water as a contaminant).
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Evanger's Dog & Cat Food Co. is pulling five lots from its best-selling Hunk of Beef line due to a "potential contaminant pentobarbital" detected in one lot, according to a statement.
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The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) said in May that palm oil generated more of a potentially carcinogenic contaminant than other vegetable oils when refined at temperatures above 200 degrees Celsius.
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The Natural Resources Defense Council said relatively few cities violate national standards for drinking water, but this is more a result of weak standards than it is of low contaminant levels.
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Until it is fixed, he recommends that people consider buying a faucet filter for their home or using a filtered pitcher specifically designed to remove the contaminant that their water has.
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The Food and Drug Administration said on Friday that it had detected low levels of a cancer-causing contaminant in samples of heartburn medicines containing the drug commonly known as Zantac.
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The agency did not announce a maximum contaminant level (MCL) for PFAS, a legal limit for the amount the chemical can be allowed in drinking water under the Safe Drinking Water Act.
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Living amid coal ash The threat of a potential contaminant lingers in many communities neighboring coal ash sites, despite reassurances that industry testing shows that water sources are safe at the moment.
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"We do appreciate members of Congress offering financial assistance to address a contaminant," Tommy Holmes, legislative director for the American Water Works Association, which represents water utilities, told The Hill by email.
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And in the past few months, a mysterious respiratory illness that appears to be linked to a chemical contaminant in cannabis vaping products has afflicted at least 215 people and killed two.
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The House-passed version of the NDAA would have forced the cleanup of PFAS under the Superfund law and would have directed the Environmental Protection Agency to set a maximum contaminant level.
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How this lethal contaminant got into Evanger's pet food is still unknown, but the company believes their meat supplier is to blame, also claiming the supplier is using horse meat in their shipments.
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This story has been updated to include a response from Juul, a link to the lawsuit itself, and a clarification that the lawsuit did not specify which contaminant was allegedly in the pods.
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That means an estimated $100 million total in contracts will be doled out to 112 businesses to develop prototypes of their proposed technologies, which range from planetary rover anchors to contaminant-resistant spacesuits.
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"Timing of the events, duration between disease onset and death, higher case fatality among children are all suggestive of ingestion or exposure to a contaminant," CDC spokesman Tom Skinner said in early May.
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Last week, he signed a bill to regulate the production and sale of hemp and another to ban the sale of cosmetic and personal care products with certain amounts of a harmful contaminant.
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A recent study by environmental groups found that more than 90 percent of the 265 coal plants required to test their groundwater near coal ash dumps discovered unsafe levels of at least one contaminant.
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Seven million Americans receive tap water with levels of chromium-6 that are higher than the legal limit established by California -- 10 ppb -- which is the only state to enforce a maximum contaminant level.
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A Tyson spokeswoman said the company did not know how rubber from machines used for processing the product ended up in the patties and declined to disclose how many customers reported finding the contaminant.
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Pruitt called determining a maximum contaminant level a "national priority" and said the agency was in the process of developing groundwater determinations for the chemicals that is expected to be finished by the fall.
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The EU's blatantly unfair agricultural trade practices affect not only the U.S.. An egregious example is the imposition of a ten-fold more stringent safety standard for aflatoxin, a cancer-causing natural food contaminant.
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Second, the thought of radiation activates the mind-set of disgust, in which any trace of contaminant fouls whatever it contacts, despite the reality that we all live in a soup of natural radiation.
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FDA warns of contaminant in popular heartburn medicine The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning that some batches of the popular heartburn medication Zantac contain low levels of a chemical that could cause cancer.
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That did not trigger a violation of federal clean water rules because the town's annual average of 54 parts per billion that year was below the maximum trihalomethane contaminant level of 80 parts per billion.
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The detailed research into the contaminant - known as GE - was commissioned by the European Commission in 2014 after an EFSA study the year before, into substances generated during industrial refining, identified it as being potentially harmful.
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California's environmental regulatory agency—the body that recently exposed cheating on diesel emissions tests by the German car firm Volkswagen—says diesel exhaust poses the highest cancer risk of any toxic air contaminant it has evaluated.
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The FDA started additional tests of these heart drugs, angiotensin II receptor blockers or ARBs, this summer after labs found that NDEA and another cancer-causing contaminant, NDMA, was accidentally added to some of these drugs.
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She spends her days consulting athletes and their teams on how to find safe supplements, and always reminds them that no third-party certification system, no matter how good, can identify every possible contaminant or prohibited substance.
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The agency did not give a maximum contaminant level, a legal limit allowed in drinking water under the Safe Drinking Water Act, for PFAS, but said it would start that process by the end of the year.
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The chemical in question is known as 1,4-dioxane, a clear liquid solvent regularly used since the 1950s in the manufacturing of plastics and other chemicals as well as a contaminant found in many cosmetic and household products.
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While 1,4-dioxane is currently unregulated by the EPA, the chemical has been singled out as a potential threat since 24, when it was placed on the agency's third iteration of its drinking water contaminant candidate list (CCL).
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But there are still some issues to sort out: Elardo said that although New York City's water quality is the best it has been in 100 years, facilities like Newtown Creek still don't filter for every known contaminant.
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By clicking, "want to filter these contaminants out?" the EWG site links to dozens of recommendations for water filters, explaining the filtration systems and letting users to select price ranges and what specific contaminant they want to filter out.
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"Whereas municipal water utilities must share their treatment methods and contaminant-testing results with consumers annually, bottled water companies are not required to disclose this information," Paul Pestano, Environmental Working Group's senior database analyst, told Men's Journal in August.
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More likely than some highly motivated stoner dropping an enormous chunk of change to get a town blazed is that the readings are false positives caused by some other contaminant, or that the field test kits themselves are unreliable.
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Lead, which is a primary contaminant at many of these sites, is now well known to affect neurological and biological development in children and can have devastating lifelong effects, including brain and neurological damage, slowed learning and lower IQs.
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The statutory definition of "tampering" means the introduction of a contaminant into a public water system "with the intention of harming persons" or interfering with the operation of a public water system "with the intention of harming persons" (emphasis added).
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"In similar cases in the past, the source of the contaminant was never adequately identified, but ... the root cause was by and large a lack of control of the quality of cutter stock used in the marine pool," the IBIA said.
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A week after findings of unsafe lead levels prompted the water to be shut off at 153 of the Newark district's 215 schools, the city began to test the students at one of them to measure their exposure to the contaminant.
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There is no known safe level of lead exposure, making every source of the contaminant a cause for concern when it comes to the ways it affects children in terms of I.Q., behavior, growth and other developmental factors, experts say.
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Even before the water was turned off in the 30 city schools, state lawmakers held hearings about the dangers facing children in the state because of exposure to the contaminant in their homes, where lead-based paint may still remain.
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SINGAPORE/BEIJING (Reuters) - China has banned imports of crude oil containing more than 10 parts per million (ppm) of organic chloride, a contaminant that can damage refining equipment, the country's General Administration of Customs said in a faxed statement on Friday.
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In 2007, when scores of kidney patients across the United States died from allergic reactions after dialysis, experts traced the cause to a contaminant in the blood thinner heparin provided by a Chinese plant contracted by Baxter, the leading American supplier.
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ELSEWHERE ➔ Drug safety: CVS on Monday became the latest retailer to pull Zantac and its generic heartburn tablets from store shelves following a government warning to consumers in early September about a dangerous contaminant in prescription and over-the-counter versions.
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The EPA (Environmental Protection Agency), the US government agency whose mission is to protect human health and the environment, sets the "maximum contaminant level goal" of lead in drinking water at zero, meaning that no amount is safe for human consumption.
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The at-home derma rollers I provide to my clients are sent to a company called Sterigenics and they're sterilized at a certain dose with gamma radiation, sealed in a hermetic pouch, and are guaranteed to be 100% contaminant-free upon delivery.
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He often finds high white blood cell level counts in patients having allergic reactions to the OTC supplements they're taking, including red yeast rice, and says it's impossible to tell if the reaction is to what's on the label or another contaminant.
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The story of Lena (Natalie Portman), a biologist who joins a group of women to explore an area of coastal America that's rapidly mutating due to an alien contaminant, Annihilation is full of improbably beautiful biological mashups, shimmering landscapes, and human-plant hybrids.
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Walgreens, CVS, and Rite Aid have announced they are pulling the heartburn medication Zantac and other generic versions from their shelves, citing reports from the Food and Drug Administration of a cancer-causing contaminant in samples of the drug earlier this month.
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Walgreens, CVS, and Rite Aid have announced they are pulling the heartburn medication Zantac and other generic versions from their shelves, citing reports from the Food and Drug Administration of a cancer-causing contaminant in samples of the drug earlier this month.
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During the four-day port call, the aircraft carrier's personnel will visit an orphanage and a center for victims of Agent Orange, the defoliant used by the United States military that is blamed, through a toxic contaminant, for poisoning generations of Vietnamese.
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The F.D.A. said in September that the contaminant found in samples of Zantac was a type of nitrosamine called N-nitrosodimethylamine, or NDMA, which is believed to be carcinogenic in humans and is found in a variety of products, including cured meats.
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While the F.D.A. has said the NDMA found in the Zantac samples that the agency tested was at "unacceptable levels," it pushed back against the findings of Valisure, an online pharmacy that said its testing revealed far higher levels of the contaminant.
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"For the first time, we have a definite contaminant of concern: vitamin E acetate," Anne Schuchat, principal deputy director of the CDC, told reporters in a telephone briefing, calling the study a breakthrough in the outbreak investigation that has been underway since August.
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Unlike all other drinking water laws in the US, which make water utilities the sole responsible party for taking care of a contaminant, the Lead and Copper Rule, created in 1991, treats lead as a shared responsibility between water utilities and consumers.
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Add to this data from remote sensing platforms such as NOAA satellites, Google Earth and private drones to obtain new insights about green spaces in cities, soil moisture, heat signatures of industrial plants, contaminant emissions in air and water and analytics that reveal structural deterioration.
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On their own, "to be dramatic, if someone had contaminated the products with a potent contaminant, these tests would never reveal that information," Michelle Peace, an associate professor of forensic science at Virginia Commonwealth University who has studied e-liquids, told BuzzFeed News by email.
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If accepted by New Jersey's Department of Environmental Protection, the recommendation would mean that the chemical is subject to a "maximum contaminant limit," allowing state officials to require operators of water systems to meet the new standard by installing carbon filters or other technology.
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They spent the next year and a half trying to figure out whether they had actually found traces of ancient hepatitis B virus, or whether instead the virus they found was a contaminant from one of the researchers who uncovered the mummy in the 1980s.
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PFAS is a chemical contaminant of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances that has been linked to cancer; changes in hormonal, liver and thyroid function; learning and behavioral problems in children; and is considered a "forever chemical," meaning we cannot get it out of the environment once it's there.
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They concluded: "Since the genetic potential of contaminant resistance and degradation usually indicates the presence of the relevant contaminants, the Greenland ice sheet should not be considered a pristine environment, and more attention should be paid to the potential release of anthropogenic contaminants from this fast-changing environment," i.e.
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The French drug maker Sanofi said Friday that it was recalling the over-the-counter heartburn drug Zantac in the United States and Canada, a month after the Food and Drug Administration first alerted the public that versions of the drug contained low levels of a cancer-causing contaminant.
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Coli or even total coliform bacteria maximum contaminant level, which require immediate public notification and response and are part of daily / hourly testing of public water supplies, TTHMs pose a public health concern with chronic, longterm exposure… The key to the conversation is that TTHM is not a top health concern.
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Representatives with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control have for the first time identified a specific contaminant as a "very strong culprit of concern" in EVALI (e-cigarette or vaping product use-associated lung injury) — the e-liquid vaping illness that is associated with over 2,85033 cases nationwide and 39 fatalities.
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Pervasive contaminant In June, a draft report from the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, a division of the US Department of Health and Human Services, indicated that the "minimal risk levels" for oral exposure to PFOS and PFOA should be lower than the threshold currently recommended by the EPA.
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Thousands of the lawsuits against J&J have been consolidated before a New Jersey federal judge, who is currently weighing company motions to disqualify plaintiffs expert witnesses, including the head of an asbestos testing lab who has testified in earlier trials that he found the contaminant in J&J powders.
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A summary of the results of a test carried out for Russia's Ministry of Energy and for Transneft, the operator of the pipeline, by a Moscow-based state chemical laboratory seen by Reuters in May, which has not previously been reported, shows that the contaminant was 85 percent carbon tetrachloride.
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A New Jersey judge overseeing thousands of talc lawsuits consolidated in a federal court is expected to rule soon on a J&J request to disqualify expert witnesses hired by plaintiffs, including the head of an asbestos testing lab who testified in earlier trials that he found the contaminant in the companys powders.
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Experts don't know yet if the nicotine in e-cigarettes, or substances like propylene glycol/vegetable glycerin (PG-VG), which are ubiquitous solvents used to deliver drugs in both nicotine and marijuana vapes, might play a role, or if the culprit in the illness outbreak may be a contaminant in illicit vapes.
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It's difficult to gauge how much of an aesthetic contaminant is a loud wool stadium scarf woven with the name of a museum, but the flip side of the neck warmer ought to make a best seller for the museum shops that have signed on for Mr. Cattelan's project (MoMA, the Guggenheim and the Whitney among them).
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During his varied career, Dr. Reiffel worked for a year at the University of Chicago for the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Enrico Fermi; wrote a novel, "The Contaminant" (1978), about a biomedical attack by rogue American officers against the Soviet Union; delivered radio commentaries on science that won a Peabody Award; consulted for the Apollo program's scientific staff; and ran a company that developed teleconferencing products.
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Sam Oh, an epidemiologist at the University of California San Francisco Center for Genes, Environment, and Health, offered as an example to NPR that "African-Americans and Puerto Ricans don't respond as well to some of the most common asthma controller medications," even though these groups would benefit enormously from more effective treatment, since they are disproportionately likely to live in high-contaminant environments where asthma is common.
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EPA must consider and weigh three criteria in deciding whether it should start a formal rulemaking process to regulate a particular contaminant: whether PFOA and PFOS have an adverse effect on the health of persons; whether they occur or have a chance to occur in public water systems often enough and at levels of public health concern; and whether regulation of them presents a meaningful opportunity for health risk reductions for persons served by public water systems.
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