Word: hazardously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...presence of rats on such a scale poses a serious health threat. Rats--carriers of disease and disease-infested parasites--are viewed by health officials as a serious health hazard. In New Hampshire, where my parents own a restaurant, health officials would have ordered Winthrop's dining hall to close until the rat problem was eliminated or at least placed under control...
...plate or in the glass may not be good for you at all. In fact, reports the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC), an environmental group based in New York City, farm produce sold in U.S. supermarkets and greengroceries may contain so much pesticide that it poses a serious hazard to the health of the nation's 22 million preschoolers...
...Daminozide (trade name: Alar), a chemical that is used chiefly on red apples and that penetrates the fruit's skin, is the greatest cancer hazard. The NRDC predicts that daminozide use may cause one case of cancer for every 4,200 preschoolers. Though the percentage of children affected -- 0.024% -- is minute, the risk is 240 times the standard considered acceptable by the Environmental Protection Agency -- one case of cancer per million...
...contamination hazard forces Cambridge to take water from the Quabbin reservoir, the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) will be "hard-pressed" to supply water to all its customers, said M. Ilyas Bhatti, MDC's director of watershed management. Extremely low levels of rainfall this winter have already prompted state officials to declare a "water emergency" for Boston and 43 other communities served by the Quabbin...
...University Health Services director Warren E. Wacker said that figure is not high enough to pose a serious health hazard...