Sentence examples for seriously contaminated from inspiring English sources

Two case studies, (Table 2), each involving a seriously contaminated urban allotment site, found no evidence of adverse health effects despite soil contaminant loadings much higher than typical urban sites [ 1- 3, 20].

A 2011 study by the ministry of environmental protection found that of 118 cities, 64 had "seriously contaminated" groundwater supplies.

If the lakes and pools of these refuges become seriously contaminated, the damage to the waterfowl populations of the Far West could be irreparable.

Parmalat Brasil Indústria de Alimentos filed in a São Paulo court for concordata -- the equivalent of Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States -- saying that its operations had been "seriously contaminated" by the scandal.

Garnham said the evidence that the Al-Sweady inquiry will hear from Iraqi witnesses was "seriously contaminated", coming as it does from men who were friends or related, and who had all denied having been involved in the fighting when they were detained on the battlefield at its conclusion.

The Environmental Protection Agency is beginning a project to clean up a section of the river, but even when that work and another imminent federal project is complete, about three-plus miles of the river and the canal that empties into Lake Michigan will still remain seriously contaminated.

New powerful technologies have enabled the oil and gas industry to drill deep into previously hard-to-reach sources of gas, but the cost of the new technique is high: some people who live near fracking sites have become seriously ill from contaminated air and water.

Today was the 10th anniversary of the deaths of four children from contaminated hamburgers sold at a Jack-in-the-Box in Seattle, and Ms. DeLauro was joined by mothers whose children had died or become seriously ill after eating contaminated meat over the past decade.

However the strain of E. coli associated with the current outbreak (identified as Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O157 H7) has been involved in other deadly outbreaks, including one in 1993 that killed four children and left nearly 200 other people seriously ill from eating contaminated hamburger meat at Jack in the Box restaurants.

Its contamination seriously damages ecosystems.

Furthermore, the consumption of heavy metal-contaminated food can seriously deplete some essential nutrients in the body causing a decrease in immunological defenses, intrauterine growth retardation, impaired psycho- social behaviors, disabilities associated with malnutrition and a high prevalence of upper gastrointestinal cancer [2].