Such residues are permitted if they present a "negligible risk" to human health.

Hence there is negligible risk of illegal cutting of forests.

Those researchers estimated that the lead released in the course of a meal posed a negligible risk.

But many are needlessly concerned about negligible risks posed by this technology.

This is the case if debt capital has negligible risk that interest and principal payments will not be made when owed.

In zones of low or negligible risk this standard may be used as a source of information.

Agency will not ban it in coffee, saying small residue poses negligible risk.

The environmental agency said three years ago that it believed a one-in-a-million chance was an acceptable standard of "negligible risk."

But the studies showed either negligible risk or no risk at all.

Banks and lenders face negligible risk from allowing students to take out large sums.