Results presented here demonstrate the potential of the SIP imaging method to discriminate source and plume of dissolved contaminants at BTEX contaminated sites.
The results presented here demonstrate, however, that panfungal PCRs from tissues in long-term stored paraffin blocks are generally prone to reactions with fungal spore contaminants, at least if no special preventive measures against contamination are employed.
Our lives are threatened less by the Taliban in Afghanistan than by unregulated contaminants at home.
Excluding asbestos, for which there are strict regulations, "there are two types of contaminants at play indoors," Mr. Sahn said.
Those adjustments will allow government scientists to evaluate large groups of similar contaminants at the same time and to issue new rules that apply to dozens of chemicals.
In 2001, the plan appeared doomed after the discovery of toxic contaminants at the new site, which had housed a refinery for converting coal into natural gas.
Enter another player: Perma-Fix, a company based in Atlanta that makes a resin for treating contaminants at polluted industrial sites.
A PROPOSED contract modification that would give Bechtel a financial incentive to speed removal of contaminants at Brookhaven National Laboratory has come under criticism from local groups worried that the change could result in a hurried and inadequate cleanup.
But opponents of the project say that contaminants at the site have not been adequately studied, and that the construction could push flammable methane in the landfill out to the edges of the site, closer to their homes.
They said that the settlement would compensate about 10,000 plaintiffs according to the severity of their illnesses and the level of their exposure to contaminants at the World Trade Center site.
The plaintiffs claimed that their conditions -- most commonly asthma and other respiratory illnesses -- resulted from the toxic brew of contaminants at ground zero and the defendants' failure to adequately supervise and protect them with safety equipment, like respirators.
