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background level

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background level,
the usual intensity of a chemical or other stimulus in the environment.


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If these results merely represented the background level of CA-MRSA colonization in the general population, this difference would not be expected.
In this study (the Hokkaido Study on Environment and Children's Health), the effect of prenatal exposure to background levels of PCBs and dioxins on infant neurodevelopment in Japan/Sapporo was elucidated.
According to a 2003 study, Bradley Landfill's leachate contained tritium at 20,100 picocuries per liter over the drinking- water limit - that's 1,000 times the normal background level.
 
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