How To Use Contaminate In A Sentence

If a person drank water contaminated to a level of 75,000 picocuries per liter for an entire year, they would receive an internal radiation dose of about 16 mrem, which is far below the natural variations in the average annual dose of 360 mrem in the US. Atomic Insights Blog
The authorities had been allowed to "contaminate" the results, ANC Daily News Briefing
Unless the circulating nurse is in a sterile gown, the instrument tray can be contaminated by unsterile clothing.
The discharge of sewage water into the river severely contaminates the river with coliform bacteria.
The residents of Mufulira that number about 800,000 are scared to drink the tap water for it could be contaminated. Water Contamination Scare in Zambia

Yet at the other end of the bay, away from the town and its sewage outlets, the water is virtually uncontaminated.
The river was contaminated with waste.
The buried valve allowing them to drain and avoid freezing can allow bacterially contaminated water to be drawn into the riser pipe leading to the hydrant.
It may also by carried by dust and long grass contaminated by infected animals so if one beast develops the condition, the others should be moved out of that pasture.
Then as if it might contaminate him he let it fall sideways into the bed of pine needles. THE WHITE DOVE
A million cubic meters of contaminated dirt has been converted into parkland, nearly 3,000 apartments, and shopping centers, all with high tech amenities and smart energy meters to make future improvements plug-and-play. Terry Tamminen: The City of the Future Is Already Here
Projects already undertaken for pharmaceutical customers have involved removal of plant and equipment contaminated with low-levels of radioactivity and other hazardous materials.
Local people were drafted in as casual workers to clean up the contaminated factory.
There is a strong possibility that the cat contracted the condition by eating contaminated pet food.
In some cases, non-susceptible barrier crops are planted around a field in a 15-20 m wide strip to "decontaminate" sucking insects before they reach the susceptible crop. Chapter 10
God without Being: "the Ungrund is contaminated from the start by the universe it subtends, making the impulse to misrecognize the groundless as the primal ground, and thereby firmly reappropriate it to ontotheology, quite irresistible"; Hegel on Buddhism
Not a single defendant at the1692 Salem Witch Trials was burned at the stake...19 were hanged while a 20th, a man who refused to enter a plea, was crushed to death with heavy stones medical historians have ascribed the bizarre behavior exhibited there to various causes, such as an outbreak of encephalitis or rye bread contaminated by the hallucinogenic known as ergot! Dr. Franklin Ruehl, Ph.D.: 15 Intriguing Halloween-Related Factoids!
Health workers should remove casualties' clothes and decontaminate their skin then give them clean clothing, such as paper suits, to wear.
On the Australian mainland, they killed them by giving them poisoned food and clothing contaminated by diseases they had never before experienced.
It would send up a cloud of nuclear fallout that could contaminate all of Southern California. FALLOUT
The need to cleanse herself, to somehow decontaminate her body was compulsive. WHEN THE APRICOTS BLOOM
`Excuse me, Gritkin, we are just carrying this treasure away to decontaminate it... ` KARA KUSH
This water is highly contaminated with dolomite from the cement manufacturing factories.
I throw a couple cups in when I will be away for a couple of days, and it super chlorinates the water ensuring no contaminates grow. Epinions Recent Content for Home
When T. tubifex was exposed to soil contaminated with mixtures PCBs and other organic pollutants there was a decrease in reproduction and development.
Decades after the wartime defoliant Agent Orange was sprayed over the country, dioxin continues to contaminate people through the food chain in present-day Vietnam, according to a study released yesterday.
The Drugs Agency still lacks the power to order the recall of contaminated meat.
Children in Finland who occupied a mold-contaminated school building suffered from asthma and/or allergy and had higher antibodies than nonallergic children.
The soil around the housing development had to be decontaminated by the city
Monsters protected by sterile uniforms rush in to "decontaminate" the area. Movies: Scare The Heck Out Of 'Shrek'?
The poisons seeping from Hanford's contaminated land quickly dilute in the water.
In one study, U.S. and Canadian government scientists purposely contaminated an experimental lake in Ontario with around 5 nanograms per liter of ethynyl estradiol, and studied the effects on the lake's fathead minnow population, a common species that fish like lake trout and northern pike feed on. YubaNet.com
Punish the delinquent employees and also the people who contaminate the atmosphere.
If one's eyes have been contaminated, wash with clean running water for at least 15 minutes.
The yellow fever patients upon whom the mosquitoes were contaminated were, almost in every instance, well-marked cases of the albuminuric or melanoalbuminuric forms, in the second, third, fourth, fifth, or sixth day of the disease. The Making of Arguments
Horses are thought to acquire infection mainly from pastures contaminated by donkeys during the summer months.
Transmission of roundworm, whipworm and hookworm requires a warm wet environment to ensure survival of eggs or larvae in soil that is contaminated with human faeces.
A waste sump overflowed in September causing hundreds of gallons of contaminated water to pour into the Gullielands Burn which flows through the Chapelcross site.
Legionnaires disease is usually contracted by inhaling water mist from baths, showers and cooling towers or air conditioning systems contaminated with the bacteria.
Wear rubber, vinyl, or plastic gloves when handling severely contaminated clothing.
China said this week that milk powder contaminated with melamine, which is used in plastics, had made at least 6,200 babies ill nationwide and killed four over a period of many months. ANC Daily News Briefing
Numerous hazardous sites around New Zealand have to be decontaminated at considerable expense, but the people who have gained from producing those toxins have incurred no cost.
Enemy of the forest." Near Homyel, signs warn of the danger of forest fires on contaminated land.
The burn contained surface water from a nearby outfall that could be contaminated with sewage, as well as animal faeces from farms.
The diuretics were contaminated with bacteria; the antiepileptic drugs were contaminated with fungi, and one patient died because of taking those drugs; the antihypertensive drugs and the antidiabetic drugs were mixed. Chaotic drug management in Hong Kong
After examining her, doctors diagnosed arsenic poisoning and said it was caused by drinking contaminated water in her native village on the India-Bangladesh border since childhood.
I feel contaminated by it, almost as if it's a taint upon my soul.
So Martin contaminated Professor Caldwell with his own earnestness, challenging him to speak his mind. Chapter 27
Looks like a woofter to me," said Roy, wiping his hand on his trousers as if it had been contaminated. Disordered Minds
Many questions concerning toxicity and allergenicity have been raised about corn contaminated with the spores of this fungus.
The charity estimates that each four-week visit increases the children's life expectancies by up to two years, because the fresh air and uncontaminated food boosts their immune systems.
Fewer and fewer cows are infected today, but now there is an outbreak of human Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, resulting from the consumption of beef products contaminated by infected bovine central nervous system tissue.
Blinded in his right eye just after birth when a midwife rinsed his eyes with a contaminated fluid, Mr. Jordan was the smallest and sickliest of 15 children born to migrant farm worker parents. Esteban 'Steve' Jordan, virtuoso accordionist, dies at 71
Similarly, oxygen level had come down substantially in the lake also due to discharge of contaminated water into it.
Another reason is, plastic sacks are commonly contaminated by trash, such as paper and metal cans stuck inside.
- "Most SF of a certain vintage is contaminated by the Marxist notion that history is the sum of deterministic, predictable forces. Amazing Grace, you do me wrong to treat me thus discourteously
Finally, resuspension rate of contaminated bottom sediment on the action of jet flow was calculated quantitatively.
Shampoo companies also realize that the sheer volume of bubbles a shampoo generates can prompt thoughts of freshness and cleanliness—bubbles signal that the shampoo is strong and invigorating just as the "sting" of an after-shave or the bubbles hitting our throat when we down sparkling water "inform" us that the product is fresh and uncontaminated. Selling Illusions of Cleanliness
While cesium and strontium, the two materials found in the generators, cannot be used to make nuclear weapons, they could contaminate large areas if combined with explosives.
It was the taxpayer who decontaminated the land, paid for the transport infrastructure, and underwrote the new developments.
Promote a clean and uncontaminated river environment that interacts with the urban spaces, developments and pedestrian amenities in their vicinity.
Flush contaminated area with large quantities of cool water or a diluted baking soda solution and expose the area to fresh air as soon as possible.
It needs some effective noise reduction algorithm to optimize the image contaminated by noise.
She went at it in a kind of fury, as if this would decontaminate it from the touch of Ringrose. MURDER MOVES IN
Jakov Kalynik, a firefighter at Parishev station, about nine miles from the ruined plant, said: I know when I am fighting a fire on radioactively contaminated ground – you get the heat just like an ordinary fire, but you get a tingling sensation too, like pins jumping all over your body. Forest fires around Chernobyl could release radiation, scientists warn
Construction of drilled piles in unstable soil is difficult because soil can contaminate the pile.
He said it was reasonable to believe the water had not been contaminated before the period in question because no-one prior to that period had taken ill.
The seized products violate the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act because they were held under insanitary conditions under which they may have become contaminated with filth.
Clothing and bedding should also be decontaminated.
Intestinal Fluke (Heterophyes) - Humans and other mammals become infected with the digenetic trematode by eating contaminated raw or undercooked fish. Undefined
He drew a picture to illustrate the problem: leakages in toilets not only caused bad smells but allowed bacteria and viruses to contaminate the air inside the apartments.
The need to cleanse herself, to somehow decontaminate her body was compulsive. WHEN THE APRICOTS BLOOM
For example, organisms that thrive on the edge of steaming hot sulphurous springs under the sea, deep underground, inside rocks, in arid deserts, inside ice and on soils known to be contaminated.
Clostridium bacteria can grow only in the complete absence of oxygen, so they have been found in contaminated cans of food.
And, even if such nongrowing foods were contaminated, the radioactive material could be able to be washed away. Radiation Spurs Fears Around Japanese Food
The department, which is responsible for official controls on animal feed, did not disclose where the contaminated premixture was found.
The building official said he wants the house taken down to its shell - what he calls a vanilla box - with only the salvageable materials remaining and the contaminated soil from past sewer problems removed. Local News from Spartanburg Herald Journal
The case revolved on an inaccurate affidavit used to get a search warrant, the evidence obtained as a result of which was, of course, "legally contaminated" and so, the case should not have been pressed using that evidence, asserted Deputy District Attorney Ceballos in a memorandum to his superordinates in the office. Garcetti v. Ceballos; Alito Kills Whistleblowing
But this should not be carried out on-farm because it can further contaminate the ground and infect other cattle.
The CDC advised against it, arguing that any expensively cleaned locker room could be recontaminated the next time a colonized kid walked in.29 Instead, Stafford worked to educate its students. SUPERBUG
It seemed an extremely odd locution for a scientist to be using about contaminated water.
Biology: The lining of the rectum is very thin and a ready route for disease and easy to rupture during the vigorous thrusting of anal sex — easy to contaminate your blood with fecal matter – the sphincter muscle of the anus can be damaged by too many intrusions making one incontinent – hemorrhoids and anal sex are surely incompatible. The Volokh Conspiracy » Sex Education, Dirty Words, and the Due Process Clause
Most of the crude waragi, Dr Tusiime said, has been contaminated with methanol, although authorities are still waiting for results from the government chemist -- on actual levels of concentration. AllAfrica News: Latest
Apparently parents emit poisonous substances which contaminate their kids in much the same way that humans pollute the environment.
Vibrio parahaemolyticus can be present in raw or undercooked seafoods while Salmonella and Staphylococcus aureus are usually associated with foods contaminated by animal feces and the consumption of raw meat and unclean eggs.
And they know that this active ingredient called chondroitin sulphate, the name's not that important, but if it's contaminated causes an allergic reaction, causes a blood pressure drop, causes heart problems, and possibly death. CNN Transcript Apr 30, 2008
Vitamin B-12 deficiency can also be caused by a tapeworm ingested from contaminated fish, because the tapeworm saps nutrients from your body.
Uncontaminated surface water run-off and rainwater from roofs shall be collected separately from slurry and shall be disposed of directly to the nearest drain, ditch, soakpit or watercourse.
The amount of mercury found in fish may be 3,000 times the original concentration in the contaminated water.
The need to cleanse herself, to somehow decontaminate her body was compulsive. WHEN THE APRICOTS BLOOM
Both are large, shallow embayments that are contaminated by direct discharges from mercury-cell chlor-alkali plants and dominated by rapid tidal flushing.
A team of experts will travel in May to clear landmines in Cambodia, one of the worst landmine contaminated areas in the world.
A chemical named mirex was used in some of their products and contaminated the soil and sediment along the two creeks. Salem News
The issue was whether or not the bacteria in his body would contaminate the local ecosystem.
Bruno turned away, not wanting to contaminate her with that vision. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
Now we have a ghastly split between the mundane, apparently unsusceptible to any form of artistic transfiguration, and pure music whose splendour and misery are that it is uncontaminated by reality.
She kept young largemouth bass in ten-litre aquariums filled with buckyball-contaminated water.
The signs of our health system heading for a disaster are there for all of us to see, whether it is scores of babies dying of drinking contaminated water or babies dying of klebsiella ... ANC Daily News Briefing
These safety shields will reduce the risk of accidental exposure of healthcare workers to infectious agents through contaminated sharps in the workplace.
For their part, they allowed our friendship to be contaminated with their silence. GYPSY MASALA
Over time, songbirds like the robin and other prized avians, including bald eagles and peregrine falcons, ingested enough contaminated prey that they died of DDT poisoning.
The exposure control plan shall also contain input from non-managerial employees responsible for direct patient care who are potentially exposed to injuries from contaminated sharps.
More likely, one might ingest just 5 ml one teaspoon of contaminated water containing 200,000 CFU/ml, which is guaranteed to cause infection. Georgianne Nienaber: Haiti: Ground Truthing Cholera in Mirebalais
An avid environmentalist, she was shocked to hear that her favorite food was contaminated with the toxic heavy metal mercury, and she expressed her anger in a song.
Three thousand factories and defense facilities are contaminated by radiation.
‘There is likely to be an increase in radioactively contaminated metals and other radioactive sources entering the scrap supply chain,’ he said.
The allegation was that the defendants had supplied contaminated water to the plaintiffs thereby causing them personal injury.
Drinking water also can become contaminated with pesticides, lead or other metals.
These agents might be arthropod-transmitted viruses, water contaminated with enteric bacteria, or helminths whose infective eggs and larvae are found in soil and invertebrate hosts.
The diagnosis is dependent on the collection and analysis of an uncontaminated urine specimen.
Much of the coast has been contaminated by nuclear waste.
If helping other people remove their clothing, try to avoid touching any contaminated areas, and remove the clothing as quickly as possible.
Reactivation facilities thermally destroy organic contaminates on carbon so that the carbon can be reused.
The site was found to be contaminated by radioactivity.
Garlic, onion and strong spices were strictly forbidden in case they contaminated the leaves.
Ethoxylated chemicals: Chemicals such as sodium laureth sulfate, PEGs, ceteareth-20 and other chemicals with "eth" in the name are often contaminated with 1,4 dioxane, a probable human carcinogen that may also be toxic to the kidneys, brain and respiratory system, according to the California EPA. Marcia G. Yerman: What Price Beauty? New Legislation Seeks Safety Regulations
There is a strong possibility that the cat contracted the condition by eating contaminated pet food.
Introduction is given to modification of conventional contaminated acid neutralizing system so as to produce zinc vitriol, copper sulphate and crude cadmium and recover cobalt residue.
Nuclear weapons plants across the country are heavily contaminated with toxic wastes.
The balance of the contaminated ingredient and all of the compound feed containing it on the manufacturers premises were impounded.
The bug is passed on from person to person or through food contaminated by a sufferer.
If the spacecraft, after running out of maneuvering fuel, should crash into Europa, it might contaminate that moon with stowaway microbes from Earth and confound future searchers for indigenous life.
It is environmentally sound, as it does not contaminate groundwater or use up scarce water resources.
As a result, tens of contaminated sites have been defunded.
Four former US Navy vessels contaminated with toxic chemicals are heading to Hartlepool, Teesside, to be dismantled at a breakers yard.
Rather, transmission is probably quite direct, involving recently contaminated food or water (e.g., containing vomitus or faecal matter) or unclean hands or utensils.
The toxics dumped in these factory pens contaminate the surrounding water, as does the enormous amount of fish waste - a single pen produces more waste than a small city, and these outfits typically have 20 pens each.
In doing so, they expose themselves to marijuana which may be contaminated with adulterants and mould.
High levels of unharmful generic E. coli, commonly found in cows 'intestines, can indicate that meat is also contaminated with dangerous pathogens, such as E. coli O157: H7, salmonella and Campylobacter. Fast-food safety rules trump those for school lunches
Contaminated water must be boiled in rural areas.
A loony spider farm owner feeds his pets with crickets that have been contaminated in a nearby chemical waste dump.
All the water, brought in by trucks, is contaminated and must be boiled to make it drinkable.
Soon bodily effluvia and contaminated clothing are everywhere in Sunderland, and so is the epidemic.
But the conclusions from these studies are difficult to interpret, in part because the nanomaterials that they used were contaminated with an organic solvent added to mobilize the fullerenes in water.
With alkalinity soaring in rivers contaminated by Hungary's waste spill, the Danube is rapidly becoming affected itself, with the first dead fish already seen in its waters. Deaths Toll Rises to Six in Hungary Toxic Mud Spill
You can hardly complain about people who want to produce food uncontaminated by artificial chemicals and additives.
These penguins have been caught in smaller, unreported “mystery” spills, or have swum through the oil-contaminated ballast and bilgewater illegally dumped into the ocean by passing ships. The Great Penguin Rescue
BERLIN — Germany froze sales of poultry, pork and eggs from more than 4,700 farms Friday to stem the spread of food contaminated with cancer-causing dioxin, as fears grew that farmers could have been using tainted livestock feed for months. Germany Halts Poultry, Pork, Egg Sales In Carcinogen Scare
Chino Airport Manager James Jenkins stated that the aircraft in these hangars are not contaminated, but the area is.
(PhysOrg. com) -- Most people need about two days to recover from being sickened by foods contaminated with what's known as staphylococcal enterotoxin A, or PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
Drinking water supplies are believed to have been contaminated.
The study mapped where common heather was contaminated by nitrogen in excess of safety limits.
Chemicals in everyday products such as good packaging and cosmetics contaminate our air, water and soil.
In addressing these and countless projects like them up and down the state, Californians have relied on CEQA for over 40 years to protect their communities and our natural resources from environmentally uninformed government decisions -- decisions that needlessly pollute our air, contaminate our water, endanger our children's health, despoil our wild lands, and undermine the quality of our lives. Joel Reynolds: Handle CEQA With Care
The state Environment Ministry fears that when it rains, the pool overflows and contaminates groundwater. Looming challenge for southern Sudan: Regulating oil companies
This has advanced bioremediation of metal-contaminated soil environments, where some plants have been shown to internalize toxic elements such as cadmium, arsenic, and nickel.
When morning comes and the street sweepers clean the gutters, they are sometimes followed by vacuum trucks, lest the runoff contaminate the storm drains.
The site is heavily contaminated and a 24-hour watch is required to prevent fly tipping.
At least two rounds of antibiotics and decolonization did not break the pattern, and there was no way to determine whether she was afflicted with a persistent bug, or being recontaminated by someone else. SUPERBUG
Just as ominous, " she said, "the DOE allows and encourages sale and donation of some radioactively contaminated materials.
The new annual report from the government's Pesticide Residues Committee also reveals that some samples of milk were contaminated with lindane, a deadly insecticide banned in Europe.
A sure sign that water is contaminated is "the parasitic plant known as the lemna gibba or green water lentil" -- it's a kind of duckweed -- "which grows in aquatic environments into which urban runoff is continually discharged. Anneli Rufus: Lake Titicaca Is Full of Sh*t
This drip could contain bacteria and contaminate other food.
It looks like fun, but the water here is stagnant and contaminated with raw sewage.
The underneath cargo is'stained contaminated the DDT dust.
With cornfields to the west and north of the non-GMO corn, the harvest sample along the edge of the field was contaminated with Bt.
Its hold is estimated to contain some 2,000 tons of contaminated water.
While cesium and strontium, the two materials found in the generators, cannot be used to make nuclear weapons, they could contaminate large areas if combined with explosives.
In Guangdong, authorities last week seized 16 tons of pork contaminated with sodium borate, which changes the color of the meat to make it look more like higher-priced beef, according to the People's Procuratorate of Guangdong Province, a government body in charge of prosecutions. Hundreds in China Fall Ill; Additive Suspected
Whenever soil is highly contaminated with sclerotia, growers must rotate to a crop like wheat, which is prone to scab, instead of to other Sclerotinia-susceptible broadleaf crops, such as soybeans, dry beans, or canola.
This is done to ensure that workers and communities are protected when commercial laundries handle linens and clothes contaminated by toxic substances.
Accessible version and more information: www. epa.gov EPA is concerned that structures, including homes, hogans and storage buildings on Navajo Nation land may have been constructed of contaminated materials from nearby uranium mines. WN.com - Articles related to Food & agriculture - June 9
As long as hospitals are inadequately cleaned, doctors 'and nurses' hands will become recontaminated seconds after they are washed, whenever they touch a bacteria-laden surface. Our Unsanitary Hospitals
In recent years, scientists revealed that resident killer whales were heavily contaminated with deadly toxic chemicals.
Most people need about two days to recover from being sickened by foods contaminated with what's known as staphylococcal enterotoxin A, or "SEA. High Plains Journal: Ag News
It purges the pleasure of sleep and contaminates the cornflakes, leaving a day-long impression that a world run by fools and rascals should be treated with suspicion.
You can hardly complain about people who want to produce food uncontaminated by artificial chemicals and additives.
She went at it in a kind of fury, as if this would decontaminate it from the touch of Ringrose. MURDER MOVES IN
Moreover, like Red 40 and Yellow 5, it is contaminated with illegally high levels of benzidine and 4-aminobiphenyl, known carcinogens. Michael F. Jacobson: Color Me Skeptical: Tartrazine-Free Macaroni and Cheese
The river was contaminated with waste.
Reduce your consumption of seafood from waters that may be contaminated with organic tin compounds and your contact with household products that contain organotin compounds (for example, silicon-coated baking parchment paper). Christopher Gavigan: The Chemical Cocktail: Making Americans Overweight?
More advanced iceberg miners drill deep into the iceberg to get below more recent layers that are contaminated by the fallout of industrial chemicals.
Seeds also are spread by hay, combines, grain trucks, and in contaminated winter wheat seed.
Hamming It Up A press release from the Food and Drug Administration reports that Vita Food Products is recalling lox possibly contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes bacteria: Potemkin Prayer
Equipment and playing areas contaminated with blood should be cleaned and disinfected with an appropriate germicide.
Small amounts of exposure occur from inhalation, skin absorption, and inadvertent ingestion of contaminated soil or dust.
A clean machine is a healthy machine, and a variety of items can contaminate hydraulic oil.
Black water is contaminated with human excreta and discharges.
Inadequate cleaning in hospitals is another major cause of infections, because doctors 'and nurses' hands become recontaminated as soon as they touch bacteria covered bedrails, privacy curtains and medical devices. Betsy McCaughey: Empty Promises For Patients
The main causes are pathogenic bacteria, such as enterotoxin e. coli, campylobacter jejuni, shigella, salmonella and vibrio, that enter the body from contaminated food and drinking water.
People can get sick after eating one of the 400 different kinds of reef fish that can become contaminated with ciguatoxin. The Times-Reporter Home RSS
Scheindlin presided over settlement of some 200 lawsuits brought against BP and other oil companies over a toxic additive called MTBE that contaminated drinking supplies nationally - and she has no oil and gas investments, according to her financial disclosure forms. StarTribune.com rss feed
Most common and most easily curable with penicillin and other antibiotics is the cutaneous form, observed among people who come into contact with contaminated hides, hair, or bonemeal or who butcher infected animals. Inaccrochable
Three East Yorkshire fields where genetically modified oilseed rape has been growing have been contaminated with illegal antibiotic genes, it emerged today.
France is under heavy pressure by international investors to rein in chronic budget deficits to reassure investors that the country won't be contaminated by the sovereign-debt crisis roiling Greece and other Southern European nations. Socialists Square Off: Who's to Face Sarkozy?
Experts said a contaminated vehicle may have spread the disease, but airborne transmission over such a distance is not unknown.
Clostridium bacteria can grow only in the complete absence of oxygen, so they have been found in contaminated cans of food.
Moreover, they may contaminate fomites that can transmit the disease to persons who do not have direct contact with the animals.
To exceed advised levels of exposure from eating grossly contaminated DU dust which had settled within a destroyed tank, in practical terms, a child would need to set about swallowing over five dessertspoons heaped with dust.
What food is available is frequently contaminated because of pollution and unhygienic conditions.
With alkalinity soaring in rivers contaminated by Hungary's waste spill, the Danube is rapidly becoming affected itself, with the first dead fish already seen in its waters. Deaths Toll Rises to Six in Hungary Toxic Mud Spill
The area has not been decontaminated at all, and no environmental studies have measured the quantity of chemicals remaining in the soil and water.
Jewelry-making, electroplating, and other industries generate waste water contaminated with metals.
Wound excision involves removal of dead and contaminated tissue that, if left, would become a medium for infection.
A new report from healthystuff.org, produced by the Michigan-based Ecology Center, found high cadmium levels in 48% of toys tested and 78% were made with PVC, or polyvinyl chloride, which is often contaminated with lead. Smart Mama Jennifer Taggart aims to get the lead out of toys
Specimens of fish and amphibians taken from radioactively contaminated or otherwise polluted areas also show some apparent fluctuations in DNA content.
Humans can be infected by inhaling tiny droplets of virus-laden rodent excreta, eating contaminated food or simply by absorption through the skin.
The emergency services sealed off the area and decontaminated the affected staff.
Where privy pits, soakage pits, or sewage absorption systems penetrate 'he water table of an aquifer located near the surface and shallow wells and springs whose water comes from the aquifer are contaminated. Chapter 6
Bangladesh becomes nearly uninhabitable because of a rising sea level, which contaminates the inland water supplies.

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