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1080: Company was ‘taking shortcuts’ when worker ended up in coma after poisoning incident
Note from Fluoride Action Network: Molecular structure of highly toxic Sodium fluoroacetate (known as 1080). For more info, albeit outdated, click here A pest control company was under pressure to meet supply demands when it tried to make the active ingredient in the pesticide 1080 and a worker ended up in an induced coma. This […]
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Inspiring and educating British children on oral health
In 2021 Colgate will help, inspire and educate 1.65 million children through Colgate’s professional and schools oral health education programmes. By providing the tools needed to motivate behaviour change, we can get children excited about maintaining their oral health and making it a routine part of their day. Dental practice programme 2021 Colgate will send Bright […]
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Pani for Puri: Indian city becomes first to get 24/7 piped clean drinking water
‘Puri has now joined the elite group of international cities like London, New York and Singapore in supplying quality potable water’ Puri, a coastal city in eastern India’s Odisha, has become the first Indian city to get 24/7 clean drinking water (Getty Images) Puri has become the first Indian city to get clean drinking water […]
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Large firms cut pollutant emissions in half over 5 years
SEOUL, July 28 (Yonhap) — Large companies in South Korea have more than halved their air pollutant emissions over the past five years amid the government’s anti-coal policies, a corporate tracker said Wednesday. Air pollutant emissions by 166 plants of 77 large businesses came to 139,112 tons in 2020, down 56 percent from 316,013 five […]
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A naturally inspired, reusable system that purifies water and builds itself
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — In nature, the interaction of molecules at the boundary of different liquids can give rise to new structures. These self-assembling molecules make cell formation possible and are instrumental to the development of all life on Earth. They can also be engineered to perform specific functions — and now, a team of […]
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Proposal for cyanide in Badin Lake fought back by residents
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) – Plans to pump Cyanide and Fluoride into a lake in Stanly County has some residents fighting back and winning. Badin Lake is a popular spot for fishing, boating and other recreation but it also sits next to an old plant that used to bring jobs and residents worry still pollutes the […]
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Sask. dental public health expert debunks myths, misinformation about community water fluoridation
“It’s just like the chlorine in drinking water. In the right concentration it is protective because it purifies the water, but in a certain concentration chlorine gas has been used in wars because it’s deadly.” A character in the 1964 movie Dr. Strangelove believed communists were adding fluoride to American water and called it the […]
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Fluoride law ensures Iowa citizens understand water changes
Note from Fluoride Action Network: 1) This article was first published on July 16, 2021, in The Gazette. We labeled it as “misinformation” as it’s severely one-sided and the information presented is outdated. There is no discussion of fluoridation’s potential to reduce IQ in children. In brief, Mother-Offspring fluoride studies, many funded by US agencies, […]
United States, Iowa Misinformation -
Prediction on the fluoride contamination in groundwater at the Datong Basin, Northern China: Comparison of Random Forest, Logistic Regression and Artificial Neural Network
Highlights Three algorithms, Random Forest, Artificial Neural Network, and Logistic Regression classifiers, were employed for the Prediction of groundwater fluoride The variables influencing the fluoride in the study area were evaluated Python 3.7 was used for the analysis of the three models Abstract Groundwater fluoride is posing a health risk to humans, and analyzing groundwater […]
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East Lancashire. Letter: Fluoridation should be our choice not compulsory.
Further to the article in this newspaper on July15 “Borough tops the child tooth decay table again”, we share the concern about our poor dental health record. We applaud the Borough Council for all the strategies that they are recommending apart from fluoridation of the water supplies. The public should be aware that fluoridation is […]
United Kingdom, England