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Univar Solutions Brings on Hydrofluorosilicic Acid in Water Treatment from Mosaic
DOWNERS GROVE, Ill., March 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Univar Solutions Inc. (NYSE: UNVR), a global chemical and ingredient distributor and provider of value-added services, announced today that in late 2019 it purchased certain assets of The Mosaic Company’s hydrofluorosilicic acid (HFS) business. Univar Solutions is a leading supplier to the water treatment market, including the […]
United States, National USA Phosphate Industry -
Letter: Why is this stuff in our water?
My name is Becca Reynolds. I’m a wife and a mother to three beautiful girls. My background is in health and nutrition, so naturally ingredients are important to me, I actually enjoy reading through research studies. Here is a bit of my findings and thoughts on a particular ingredient that is found in our water. […]
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Public health endorses fluoridating Kingston’s drinking water
Members of Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox and Addington Public Health voted unanimously on Wednesday to endorse a proposal to add fluoride to Kingston’s drinking water. (Alan S. Hale/The Whig-Standard) Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington Public Health has officially endorsed the idea of adding fluoride to Kingston’s drinking water to help reduce tooth decay in the […]
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More Bad News for Fluoride: A News & Research Roundup
It’s been over three years since the IAOMT, Food & Water Watch, the American Academy of Environmental Medicine, and other concerned groups sued after the EPA denied its citizen petition requesting the end of fluoridation. Despite more than 60 studies showing fluoride’s harmful effects on IQ, the EPA stubbornly maintains that “fluoride in drinking water […]
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Studying fluoride’s effect on lead leaching will delay re-introduction 12 months
The controversial re-introduction of fluoride will be delayed 12 months while experts operate a miniature mock-up of the water system to test for possible increased lead levels. The risk of lead leaching is very low, according to a consultant hired by Windsor Utilities Commission. But the 12-month pipe loop study was urged out of an […]
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Orono and Veazie voters will decide in June referendum whether to stop fluoridating public water
ORONO, Maine — Orono and Veazie residents will decide in June whether to stop fluoridating their public water supply — which could end a nearly 60-year practice. Fluoride is a mineral naturally found in water, soil and even in some foods and beverages. People can be exposed to it on a daily basis, most commonly […]
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Windsor delays adding fluoride back to drinking water by one year
Extra tests required to determine how fluoride will interact with corrosion control chemicals already in place Additional water quality testing means fluoride won’t be reintroduced to Windsor’s, Tecumseh’s or LaSalle’s drinking water systems until at least 2021. Garry Rossi, vice-president of water operations with Enwin said the delay is a result of a recommendation made […]
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Cortland County health director to retire
S.N. Briere/staff reporter Cortland County Public Health Director Catherine Feuerherm, right, works with her secretary Cheryl Mrozowski on a presentation Feuerherm will give to the Legislature Health and Human services Committee in March. Feuerherm, who has been the director for 11 years, will retire in March. Two months after Catherine Feuerherm took over as Cortland […]
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Fluoridation of a lizard bone embedded in Dominican amber suggests open-system behavior
*Read original study online at http://fluoridealert.org/wp-content/uploads/barthel-2020.pdf Introduction Fossil bones represent valuable paleontological archives for reconstructing the paleobiology and -environments of vertebrates throughout geological time and thus also represent an important window into the evolution of life on Earth. The preservation of organisms or parts of them over long geological timescales requires exceptional conditions before and […]
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Why Hawaii Continues To Keep Fluoride Out Of Its Drinking Water
Nearly 70% of the U.S.’s population receive fluoride through public water systems. Hawaii remains an outlier, thanks to long-standing opposition. This legislative session, two fluoride-related bills cycled through the Hawaii Senate, each with the opposite intention. The first was a proposal to fluoridate Hawaii’s public drinking water, something that has failed over and over in […]
United States, Hawaii