Sentence examples for allowable levels in from inspiring English sources

The average arsenic level there was above 300 parts per billion; the Environmental Protection Agency last year reduced allowable levels in the United States from 50 parts per billion to 10 parts per billion.

If the suit succeeds, the E.P.A. will be required to classify carbon dioxide as a "criteria pollutant," under the Federal Clean Air Act, and that would trigger, the state's lawyers say, a process of setting standards for allowable levels in the atmosphere, as the federal government now does for ozone, lead and sulfur dioxide and other gasses.

Prevention of lead exposure can range from individual efforts (e.g., removing lead-containing items such as piping or blinds from the home) to nationwide policies (e.g., laws that ban lead in products, reduce allowable levels in water or soil, or provide for cleanup and mitigation of contaminated soil, etc).

Atrazine at 4 ppb is only 1 ppb greater than the maximum allowable level in U.S. drinking water (U.S. EPA 2002) and a concentration to which amphibians may be chronically exposed (Hayes et al. 2003).

The oil industry warned that the planned 97percentt cut in allowable levels of sulfur in diesel -- to 15 parts per million, from the current level of 500 parts per million -- would raise fuel prices by 10 cents a gallon or more, and cause supply shortages.

Following an extensive review of the latest scientific studies, the World Health Organization moved in 2011 to raise the allowable levels of atrazine in drinking water by 50 fold.

The amendment set limits on the total allowable levels of sulfur in the air.

The different pharmacopoeiassuch as BP (British pharmacopoeias), USP (United States pharmacopoeias), IP (Indianpharmacopoeias), and so on, are slowly incorporating limits to the allowable levels ofimpurities present in the active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs).

Meador hopes that by studying the impacts that everyday, household pharmaceuticals have on aquatic life, scientists will be better able to define a threshold for allowable levels of chemicals in the water.

Apart from the obvious sustainability and health issues, the problem is that while the Food and Drug Administration enforces labeling and regulates the allowable levels of contaminants in bottled water, it does not have the ability to do mandatory and widespread testing, the way the Environmental Protection Agency has over public drinking water.

Given the complexities and the technologies involved in the implementation, the PFA Act however remained vague on the issue of allowable levels of pesticides in packaged drinking water.