Sentence examples for pervasive contamination from inspiring English sources

Two months after the death of Robert Stevens, the first of the nation's anthrax victims, new tests at his Florida workplace reveal a pattern of pervasive contamination that mystifies investigators.

B5 CONFLICTING EVIDENCE -- Two months after the death of Robert Stevens, the first victim of the country's first anthrax assault, new tests at his workplace in Florida, American Media Inc., a publisher of tabloids, reveal a pattern of pervasive contamination that continues to mystify investigators, with evidence of a type of anthrax that can easily float in air.

E.P.A.'s Themes – Meeting the Challenge Ahead, published on the agency website, offers small hope she will reverse the failed water policies of previous administrations or cure the pervasive contamination that has threatened the nation's human and ecological health for decades….

Given pervasive contamination and the highly toxic nature of synthetic estrogens, there is considerable interest in the development of techniques to remove these compounds from contaminated water.

The analysis gives few clues, however, to how pervasive such contamination might be across the wide areas of the Northeast United States, Texas, and other states where drilling for shale gas has taken off in recent years.

Waste from these industries resulted in pervasive dioxin contamination of soils, water, and local food (Revich et al. 1999; Sergeyev et al. 2007).

Given the pervasive lead contamination of our environment, it is not surprising that normal hand-to-mouth behaviors result in high exposures among toddlers.

Neonicotinoids are the world's most widely used insecticide and in June an international scientific review concluded that contamination was so pervasive it threatened global food production.

"Lead contamination is a pervasive problem, and our traditional ways of responding are neither economically nor ecologically sustainable," Calanog says.

However, because of the pervasive fecal (human and animal) contamination that constitutes the underprivileged environment in which many young children are living in developing countries, facile transmission of pathogens readily occurs.

20 Likewise, Pickering and colleagues 36 discovered that Tanzanian women had substantial hand recontamination following observed typical household activities, suggesting that environmental contamination with feces was pervasive.