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Red Deer: Anti-fluoride rally
A Red Deer anti-fluoride group plans to rally outside City Hall on Canada Day to pressure the municipality to drop the controversial additive. “We just want as many people to be aware that fluoride is in our water and that it’s not good for us,” said Ashlee Sanchez, who is with a group calling itself […]
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Orillia to consider adding fluoride to the city’s water supply
The following was included in the article titled: Library’s future unclear FLUORIDATION OF MUNICIPAL WATER Council will consider adding fluoride to the city’s water supply. Orillia’s water naturally has some fluoride, states a report. “The current concentration in our drinking water is approximately 0.2 mg/L. The optimal fluoride concentration in drinking water for the control […]
Canada, Ontario -
Guidelines for Canadian Drinking Water Quality for FLUORIDE
This report was released on June 20, 2011 Prepared by the Federal-Provincial-Territorial Committee on Drinking Water of the Federal-Provincial-Territorial Committee on Health and the Environment Ottawa, Ontario December 2010 Read full report Also, read comments to the Draft of this report: • Draft Fluoride in Drinking Water (comment period ended Nov 27, 2009). • Comments […]
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Fairbanks: Fluoride gone
FLUORIDE GONE: The last of the fluoride added to the Golden Heart Utilities system should be out of the system by now, the utility says. The fluoride hopper was empty as of Wednesday and it probably took a couple of days before the water no longer contained the additive. With the removal of fluoride, the […]
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Southampton: Anti-fluoride campaigners vow to carry on fight
DEFIANT anti-fluoride campaigners have vowed not to let the loss of a legal bid to stop the controversial scheme prove the end of their fight. Hampshire Against fluoridation (HAF) is to force a debate by councillors in Southampton in the hope that they will oppose the plans. The group says that it has collected about […]
United Kingdom, England -
Fluoride contamination and fluorosis in rural community in the vicinity of a phosphate fertilizer factory
We studied chronic fluoride intoxication in 10 villages of Udaipur receiving F emissions from phosphate fertilizer factories. Although fluoride remained below permissible limit in most of the drinking water samples, the incidence of fluorosis in adults as well as in children was surprisingly high. Khemli appeared to be the most affected village (with >48% cases) […]
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Water fluoridation In Sabah to begin by year-end
KOTA KINABALU, June 18 (Bernama) — The first phase of a water flouridation [sic] programme for Sabah is scheduled to commence at the end of this year. Sabah had earlier announced that it would receive a RM2.5 million allocation for the purpose under the Tenth Malaysian Plan. Deputy Chief Minister and state Infrastructure Development Minister […]
Malaysia -
Sulfuryl fluoride: EPA rejects Dow’s request for hearing
EPA last month rejected a Feb. 18 request by Dow AgroSciences to hold an administrative hearing under FIFRA related to EPA’s proposed decision to revoke tolerances for the insecticide sulfuryl fluoride and fluoride, a breakdown product. Administrative hearings related to tolerance revocations are normally held pursuant to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. However, […]
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Southampton: Fluoride to be added to Southampton’s water ‘in months’
DISAPPOINTED campaigners admitted last night they have reached the “end of the road” in their legal bid to stop controversial plans to add fluoride to Hampshire’s tap water. A High Court judge rejected a final appeal against the decision not to allow a judicial review of claims health bosses failed to properly assess key arguments […]
United Kingdom, England -
Enduring fluoride health hazard for the Vesuvius area population: the case of AD 79 Herculaneum.
Abstract: BACKGROUND: The study of ancient skeletal pathologies can be adopted as a key tool in assessing and tracing several diseases from past to present times. Skeletal fluorosis, a chronic metabolic bone and joint disease causing excessive ossification and joint ankylosis, has been only rarely considered in differential diagnoses of palaeopathological lesions. Even today its […]
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