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Care was taken to ensure that normal tissue was not contaminated with tumor tissue and vice versa.
Data show that child Medicaid recipients--who often live in older housing with peeling lead-based paint or contaminated dust--are three times as likely as other kids to have dangerous levels of lead in their blood.
Brucellosis is a worldwide zoonotic disease caused by a number of host-adapted species of the gram-negative bacterial genus Brucella . In addition to the economic losses caused by reproductive failure in a number of important livestock animals, accidental transmission of the disease to humans can occur through animal husbandry, meat processing activities or ingestion of contaminated unpasteurized milk.
At the local scale neighborhoods can change dramatically from one location to another, and many putative exposures involve point sources that have local impacts (for example, fuel leaks from underground storage tanks are often limited to a few hundred cubic yards of contaminated soil).
However, if the receiving water is contaminated, it may be necessary to collect the sample in an area "remote" from the discharge site, matching as closely as possible the physical and chemical characteristics of the receiving water near the outfall.