Sentence examples for contaminated approximately from inspiring English sources

According to the World Health Organization [ 33], after the ingestion of fish contaminated, approximately 95% of Hg is absorbed in the gastrointestinal tract resulting in 5% of Hg in the blood compartment and the ratio between THgP and THgB is 1/20 [ 34].

Aflatoxins are highly carcinogenic secondary metabolites that can contaminate approximately 25% of crops and that cause or exacerbate multiple adverse health conditions, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa and South and Southeast Asia.

Aflatoxins contaminate approximately 25% of agricultural products worldwide.

In addition, the Kuwaiti Oil Minister estimated that "in terms of total oil spilled, between twenty-five and fifty million barrels of unburned oil from damaged facilities pooled to create approximately 300 oil lakes, that contaminated around 40 million tons of sand and earth".

The isolated mitochondrial DNA was contaminated with approximately 2% chloroplast DNA (Table  2).

The MATa (fluorescent) population was contaminated with approximately 0.2% of fluorescent diploid cells (Table 3).

28 dispensers from nine healthcare facilities were contaminated with approximately 10 cells per mL of Achromobacter species 3 (9 hospitals), Achromobacter xylosoxidans or Serratia marcescens (1 hospital each).

In January 1999, 500 tons of feed contaminated with approximately 50 kg of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and 1 g of dioxins were distributed to animal farms in Belgium, and to a lesser extent in the Netherlands, France, and Germany.

Of the four "weak" negative PCR controls we used to illustrate the risk associated with not separating low-template DNA preparation from PCR processing facilities, one was contaminated with approximately ten copies of DNA, illustrating the risks of weak controls when working with low-copy DNA template.

In the African continent alone, 115 people die every hour from diseases linked to poor sanitation, poor hygiene and contaminated water and approximately 1.2 billion people live in areas where drinking water is physically scarce [2].

The U.S. EPA (2004) estimates that there are approximately 294,000 contaminated sites in the United States alone that require some form of remediation.