Contamination in food and water will be detected, and they will not be consumed.
Heavy-metal contamination in China's soil also includes high amounts of lead and arsenic.
Burning coal is the single greatest cause of mercury contamination in the environment.
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The natural gas industry has argued that flawed casing practices used while drilling shale-gas wells were responsible for methane contamination in drinking water supplies surrounding shale-gas wells.
Lettuce and other leafy vegetables are healthy for you, but they are also the largest source of food-borne contamination in the U.S., according to a new government report.
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For example, instead of inspectors handling meat, robotics could be employed to further prevent cross-contamination in the inspection process, which could happen when handling an infected piece of meat.
Ms Blythman said the FSA compared very unfavourably to the Food Standards Authority Ireland (FSAI), which she said was "more pro-active" and unearthed the horsemeat contamination in the first place.
Lawyers for the oil industry say the vast majority of the plaintiffs have given them data that show very low levels of MTBE contamination in the small parts per billion category.
In early May, a study by Ireland's nuclear watchdog - the Irish Radiological Protection Institute -claimed that radioactive discharge from Sellafield continued to be the dominant source of contamination in the Irish Sea.
Nachman Brautbar of Los Angeles has worked on everything from breast implants and welding fumes to the chromium contamination in the Erin Brockovich case (his Web site features a testimonial from the film's namesake).
Earlier this month, scientists at Duke University published a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academies that provided evidence of a link between shale-gas wells and methane contamination in nearby drinking water supplied.
Our clients from the American Stock Exchange ended up moving into our offices for several weeks as their building had a great deal of damage and the contamination in the immediate area was just too great.
The results of the proposed project should contribute to improve capacity building in environmental monitoring, to assess the extent of contamination in specific regions, to raise environmental awareness among local population and to improve or amend environmental legislation in African countries.
And the drugmaker has consistently warned that off-label use can be perilous, pointing to reports of serious infections and blindness traced to contamination in vials during repackaging, an issue that temporarily led the US Department of Veterans Affairs suspend use ( look here).
As I listened to presentation after presentation from scientists who spend their working days trying to protect the public from contamination in food, I was struck by the fact that the real story about what the FDA does is almost impossible to convey to the public.
Santia Consulting Ltd issued a statement on Friday saying the source of the asbestos contamination in the school "still remains in place consisting of substantially damaged asbestos insulating boards (AIBs) in the ceiling voids, damaged AIB in the room heaters and repeated damage of AIB window panels within classrooms".
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Contamination on farms and in processing facilities from bacteria such as salmonella, E. coli and listeria are often behind the large food recalls, but often food contamination takes place in home and restaurant kitchens, said Dr. Griffin.
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In any event, the presence of mouse DNA in these cells must be considered as the source of contamination reported in this experiment.
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Relatively low contamination levels in western Japan could be explained by mountain ranges sheltering those regions from the dispersal of radioactive material, the authors said.
The United Nations Environment Programme's Post-Conflict Assessment Unit has published a report on DU contamination found in Bosnia-Herzegovina up to seven years after the conflict there.
"This paper indicates that lakes may well be connected at irregular time intervals and that even an apparently isolated lake can breach and transfer water hundreds of kilometres to other distant lakes so the contamination potential in relation to small lakes is greater than we'd previously thought, " he said.
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Woodland burials are currently not allowed in Jersey, due to fears of contamination from metal contained in people's bodies.
There is an effective way to prevent contamination of meat in our processing plants: irradiation.
Patients receiving the steroid injections suspected of contamination were injected in their backs to relieve pain.
The groundwater contamination has expanded in Washtenaw County to an area over three miles long and one mile wide.
Tests for contamination of shellfish in the Wash later proved negative.
But they have been linked to contamination and illness in the past, and proposals to more tightly regulate the industry practice have been debated in Congress.
"By all indications, this is a cross-contamination issue" in which other mail likely came in contact with the original Daschle letter, Nichols said in a news conference.
The wider food contamination controversy arose in mid-January when Irish food inspectors announced they had found horsemeat in some burgers stocked by a number of UK supermarket chains including Tesco, Iceland and Lidl.
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