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How to use the word Contamination in a Sentence?

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The scale of contamination is huge, and it’s spread across the country, the scale of the problem, it’s not for one organization, it’s a national effort.

Mairi Cunningham

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As has been reported, on Friday night a chemical spill occurred in Bristol Township, Bucks County which released contaminants into the Delaware River, the Philadelphia Water Department (PWD) became aware of this through the Delaware Valley Early Warning System (EWS) and has been evaluating the situation since that time to understand potential impacts to the public. Although early indications have not revealed contamination, we are still monitoring the situation and conducting testing.

Mike Carroll

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They want help from the Department of Agriculture. They want certainty that their crops and their livestock are safe and free from contamination and that the food supply and their livelihoods are safe.

Bob Casey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’re going to do the right thing, we’re going to clean up the site, we’re going to test until we get all the contamination gone.

Norfolk Southern

Found on CNN
1 year ago

To find this level of contamination in fish across the country, even in areas not close to industry where you might expect heavy contamination, is very concerning. These chemicals are everywhere.

Linda Birnbaum

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The main message I get is that they did not find any evidence of pathogenic bacteria on the sponges or brushes taken from a range of domestic settings and therefore there is no evidence that these items are a significant source of contamination in normal domestic settings, if there were some low levels of pathogens left on Cath Rees cloth, they are going to grow quite slowly( they grow optimally at body temperatures), so Cath Rees would not expect to see much growth of these, and this matched their results -- in wet condition there was some limited growth, in drying conditions the numbers either stayed the same or declined.

Cath Rees

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think cultivated meat can shine, because the process is much more controlled than traditional agriculture, david Kaplan have more control of inputs and outputs to the system, meaning less chance for contamination and less chance for variability. ... David Kaplan can sort of make sure only the best parts of meats end up in the meats that David Kaplan make or grow, as opposed to the animal where David Kaplan kind of have what's there.

David Kaplan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is another troubling report establishing a pattern of Abbott Nutrition's inadequate efforts to keep its products safe, we will keep pushing to get to the bottom of this for the families who have been put at risk by contamination, as well as those families who now fear whether they'll be able to find enough formula for their child's next meal.

Bob Casey

Found on CNN
2 years ago

What’s really driving the surge in overdoses is this increasingly poisoned drug supply, nearly all of this increase is fentanyl contamination in some way. Heroin is contaminated. Cocaine is contaminated. Methamphetamine is contaminated.

Shannon Monnat

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Many sunscreen products tested by Valisure did not have benzene contamination, and those products are presumably safe and should continue to be used, along with appropriate hats and sun-protective clothing, to mitigate skin cancer risk.

Christopher Bunick

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

As soon as the storage ponds overflow, streams run into Lake Baikal, secondly, there is a large amount of accumulated waste water sitting under the site. When the plant was operating, the water was pumped out and discharged to treatment facilities, now there are no treatment facilities, but the contamination remains and is leaking into Lake Baikal.

Alexander Suturin

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We are ecologically worried. This is not only a theoretical thing: in fact, we have seen serious accidents in the last few years, the potential of a nuclear contamination is absolutely there.

Nils Andreas Stensønes

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Of course, any level of contamination is not acceptable and always a cause for concern, but the chances are that this is the result of an issue with the production plant and potentially down to hygiene at the factory.

Stephen Griffin

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Once we saw the bags of trash go inside the cardboard containers, we sent a notification to the people on site via text message, letting them know that they should remove it before the truck comes the next morning and telling them that putting trash in the recycling container is a form of contamination, which they should not do in the future.

Jason Gates

Found on CNN
3 years ago

These tests are so sensitive that this contamination could have been caused by a single person walking through an area with positive control material and then later entering an area where tests reagents were being manipulated.

Michael Caputo

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We are trying to make an assisted selection, an assisted evolution of these corals towards corals that are more resistant to high temperatures, ocean acidification and contamination of Caribbean sea waters.

Pedro Pablo Chevalier

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

These individuals were justifiably concerned that doing so would dangerously expose them to risk of infection given the cross-contamination with many different individuals from all over the facility who come and go from the medical unit and with many shared surfaces.

Todd Lyons

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Tattooers really understand the need for protective equipment, we already operate with an awareness of bloodborne pathogens and cross-contamination, and so we take a lot of precautions anyway in our day-to-day operations.

Michelle Myles

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The evidence for the potential involvement of pangolins in the outbreak has not been published, other than by a university press release. This is not scientific evidence, simply reporting detection of viral RNA with sequence similarity of more than 99% is not sufficient. Could these results have been caused by contamination from a highly infected environment?

James Wood

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Given the risk of detecting any type of contamination, microbiologists that work in extreme environments take many precautions to avoid it, in our work, we sampled in completely aseptic conditions.

Felipe Gmez

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

We believe it could be local weather conditions or water contamination.

Arun Prasad

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Cross-contamination from raw food, undercooking food, hand-washing and spreading germs from raw food, those are the things that contribute to the more than 48 million cases of foodborne illness we have every year in the US.

Ben Chapman

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Damn shame this great horse, connections and me have to be put through all this, it was obvious environmental contamination. Its been a known problem in California.

Bob Baffert

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

There has to be a lot of contamination to have a real impact on people going to the beach, there's absolutely bacteria in the water every time you get in.

Alison Huffstetler

Found on CNN
4 years ago

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