Dr Jill Meara is affiliated to the Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards at the Health Protection Agency.
They also seek out any potential liabilities like environmental hazards or costly lawsuits.
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The HPA, set up to guard against infectious diseases and environmental hazards, said anthrax in drug users was very rare.
However, they may also be used to generate cover (a stagecoach pulled from another world), or environmental hazards, or even allies.
But to the dismay of his country-club-set colleagues in the Senate, Flavier has added another menace to his list of environmental hazards: golf courses.
Otherwise the national government will continue to expand turf over telecommunications, critical infrastructure, cybersecurity, nanotechnology, energy, banking, health care, hiring, environmental hazards and much else.
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China will have to do something about it or risk increasing environmental hazards that eventually lead to health crises in this aging population of 1.3 billion.
Meanwhile, bluer-than-blue New York has extended its moratorium on the technological advance behind the boom, hydraulic fracturing, citing overblown environmental hazards, and Vermont has outlawed it altogether.
Kabat is a cancer epidemiologist at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the author of Hyping Health Risks: Environmental Hazards in Daily Life and the Science of Epidemiology.
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The scientists, including representatives from NGOs skeptical of GMOs, unanimously reaffirmed the food safety report: AquaBounty salmon was materially identical to conventional salmon and posed no apparent environmental hazards.
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These diseases, ranging from dengue fever and malaria to West Nile virus and yellow fever, are the cause of millions of deaths worldwide, yet control methods have become a dilemma due to the development of resistance by mosquitoes and increased concern about health and environmental hazards.
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But it said potential risks included public health hazards and environmental damage, disruption during construction, long term use of land, and an impact on the community from changes to the environment, property values and tourism.
The NSR's shortcomings are considerable: a short sailing season, the cost of hiring icebreakers, the operational hazards of extreme northern waters and the environmental risks of oil spills, collisions or sinkings.
"Environmental and health research overly focuses on well-know rather than unknown hazards at the expense of emerging issues and their potential impacts, " they concluded.
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