Sentence examples for developmental damage from inspiring English sources

An uncertain number of children in Flint will likely suffer permanent developmental damage.

Even small amounts risk irreversible cognitive and developmental damage, particularly in young children.

There are no safe levels of lead exposure: even low levels can cause lifelong developmental damage to young children.

Secondly, more resources should be put towards understanding the developmental damage these children have suffered.

A likely human carcinogen, it has been shown to cause developmental damage in lab animals, and is toxic to — among many other organisms — tadpoles, salamanders, and honeybees.

The state has fined a pesticide maker $950,000 for continuing to sell a brand of roach bait recalled in 1994 that could cause irreversible reproductive and developmental damage in humans.

According to the World Health Organization, dioxins are highly toxic persistent environmental pollutants that "can cause reproductive and developmental problems, damage the immune system, interfere with hormones and cause cancer".

Both CST and motor cortex are common sites of developmental brain damage leading to cerebral palsy (Eyre 2007).

This study demonstrates that early developmental hippocampal damage increases the reinforcing effects of nicotine in adulthood while also producing cognitive impairments that are not specifically treated by nicotine.

As EIA says: "Copper wires are bundled and set alight to remove flame-resistant coatings, emitting toxic dioxins…The potential health consequences for those involved in this kind of work are dire - reproductive and developmental problems, damaged immune, nervous and blood systems, kidney damage and impaired brain development in children".

Chemicals such as pesticides, PCBs, PBDEs, furans and toxins (e.g., from cyanobacteria) affect humans directly or bioaccumulate in fish and organisms consumed by humans, causing developmental and neurological damage.