Dr . Ramona Hopkins, a Brigham Young University neuroscientist and a specialist in long-term carbon monoxide effects, said acute exposures like the Stewart family in Utah experienced may cause permanent brain damage that results in severe memory loss, cognitive problems, impaired learning, nerve damage, depression and anxiety and even personality change.
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During a period of very poor air quality, such as an air pollution episode, when the AQI indicates that acute exposure may cause significant harm to the public health, agencies may invoke emergency plans that allow them to order major emitters ( such as coal burning industries ) to curtail emissions until the hazardous conditions abate.
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To reduce the risk to pollinators from acute exposure to clothianidin sprays, label instructions prohibit the use of these products when crops or weeds are in bloom and pollinators are nearby, but in the U . S . label instructions do not require the use of a " sticker ", a sticking agent meant to reduce dust from treated seeds during planting.
