environmental contamination

collocation in English

meaningsofenvironmentalandcontamination

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environmental
adjective
uk
/ɪnˌvaɪ.rənˈmen.təl/us
/ɪnˌvaɪ.rənˈmen.t̬əl/
relating to ...
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contamination
noun[U]
uk
/kənˌtæm.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/us
/kənˌtæm.əˈneɪ.ʃən/
the process of making something dirty or poisonous, or the state of containing unwanted or dangerous ...
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(Definition ofenvironmentalandcontaminationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofenvironmental contamination

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The construction of chicken houses preventsenvironmentalcontamination.
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Due toenvironmentalcontamination, health authorities recommend limits in the consumption of fish caught in certain waters.
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Implementation of these strategies will limit potentialenvironmentalcontamination, thus reducing potential transmission to other animals and reducing public health impacts due to waterborne zoonoses.
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By preventing strong air currents and cleaning the room daily with a wet ragenvironmentalcontaminationwas controlled.
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Transmission viaenvironmentalcontaminationmay also account for some of the increased risk following exposure to vomiting episodes.
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The role ofenvironmentalcontaminationwith small round structured viruses in a hospital outbreak investigated by reversetranscriptase polymerase chain reaction assay.
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The improved utilization of cobalt from complex compounds allows lower levels of cobalt in feed, which reduces the risk ofenvironmentalcontamination.
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Concerns about personal risk from occupational pesticide exposure andenvironmentalcontaminationmay be especially important to organic farmers.
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Further, there are reports that a significant number of farmworkers are being exposed to various degrees ofenvironmentalcontamination.
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This can then be used to estimate the level ofenvironmentalcontaminationwith eggs as well as indicate likely control feasibility.
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These are the maternal/ biodemographic,environmentalcontamination(microenvironmental), and personal illness control (health services access/use) factors.
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Feeders and water containers were also of stainless steel construction to minimizeenvironmentalcontamination.
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Indeed, urban growth and the unequal distribution of wealth and resources that accompanied it resulted in population growth andenvironmentalcontamination.
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This presumably reflects the different intensity ofenvironmentalcontaminationthat has occurred in the two regions.
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The disease continued to spread in the hotel, passing from one guest group to another, by food,environmentalcontamination, and\\or by person-to-person transmission through infected employees and guests.
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The first of the accusations was related to theenvironmentalcontaminationcaused by the fumes resulting from the manufacture of vermilion (yermilionis), a bright red powder used as a pigment.
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