The phrase "pose harmful effects" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means to present or create damaging consequences or outcomes. Example: Smoking cigarettes can pose harmful effects on your respiratory system and increase your risk of developing lung cancer.
Pesticides used to protect the crops from pest attack in the agricultural fields pose harmful effect to the non-target organisms such as human and many other aquatic and terrestrial organisms either directly or indirectly through food chain.
These data indicate that PPCPs are ubiquitous and persistent in southern Lake Michigan, potentially posing harmful effects to aquatic organisms.
The treatment is likely to pose little or no harmful effects on normal prostatic tissues in patients.
The pretreated oyster shells were extracted by a weak acid, acetic acid, that typically has harmful effects on cell growth and also poses environmental issues.
But for sustainable industrial application of such technique it needs to be ensured first that the engineering properties of bricks as a building material are not diminished by addition of sludge, the process becomes energy efficient compared to alternatives and the use of such bricks do not pose any harmful environmental effects in the long run.
As production and uses of herbicides are increasing, the serious health and environmental problems posed by these toxic compounds must be controlled to minimize the harmful effects of these products.
The benefit of using the current equipment, however, was that it posed little to no risk to the participants, and it avoided any harmful effects of radiation that are associated with radiographic investigation [ 16].
At the same time, the persistence of the Cry proteins in Bt crops poses risks of resistance development in the target pests as well as possible harmful effects to nontarget insects and soil organisms.
The Navy disputes reports of harmful effects.
