Dr . Cate Jenkins, a whistle-blower EPA scientist, said that on September 12, 2001, a regional EPA office offered to dispatch 30 to 40 electron microscopes to the WTC pit to test bulk dust samples for the presence of asbestos fibers.
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So far, community outreach worker Thelma Malone has assessed the Cloud home for possible asthma triggers and collected a dust sample for the CDC study and a blood sample from Carrie to see if she has been exposed to secondhand smoke.
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A survey of 59 apartments in 30 buildings by the Centers for Disease Control and the city Health Department found no elevated levels of asbestos in the air but low levels of asbestos in some dust samples and fiberglass in other samples.
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To Mark's chagrin, the company's problems were well-known to the agencies _ for example, a dust sampling taken by the Texas Air Control Board in a day-care center near the plant in 1988 contained arsenic levels at 1, 900 parts per million.
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In most cases, he said, the only way to determine with certainty whether mold is growing inside a central heating system is to gain access to the coil, its lining and the blower, and take a dust sample from the surface of the components.
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Experts with the International Atomic Energy Agency, which is leading the hunt for nuclear weaponry in Iraq, are gearing up to analyze the first air, water, soil and dust samples gathered by U . N . inspectors _ and test Saddam's claims that his country poses no atomic threat.
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A 2008 study titled Heavy Metals Concentrations of Surface Dust from E-Waste Recycling and Its Human Health Implications in Southeast China examined environmental and human health risks in Guiyu by collecting dust samples from workshops, roads, a schoolyard and an outdoor food market that sells fish, vegetables and meat.
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Thirty five moss cushions, 15 dry soil samples, 5 dry algal mats and 10 glacial dust samples were collected from different dry lake sites and along the margin of polar ice cap, valleys and Nunataks, in a transect at an interval of 200 500 m in and around Schirmacher Oasis.
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Foale won't be the first American to perform a spacewalk outside Mir, which he's scheduled to do with Anatoly Solovyov next Friday or Saturday barring a last-minute refusal by NASA . Jerry Linenger gathered cosmic dust samples and installed a radiation meter with Vasily Tsibliyev in April on the first U . S .-Russian spacewalk.