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California Prop 65: PFOA selected for cancer review – comments due Dec 15, 2009
ANNOUNCEMENT OF CHEMICALS SELECTED BY OEHHA FOR CONSIDERATION FOR LISTING BY THE CARCINOGEN IDENTIFICATION COMMITTEE AND REQUEST FOR RELEVANT INFORMATION ON THE CARCINOGENIC HAZARDS OF THESE CHEMICALS [10/15/09] The California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) is the lead agency for the implementation of the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement […]
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Athens: Chemist addresses adverse health effects of water fluoridation
A world-traveling environmental chemist told Athens citizens yesterday that the fluoride in the public water supply could cause health problems. Paul Connett, Ph.D., executive director of the Fluoride Action Network, said fluoridated water threatens to lower children’s IQs, increase the risk of bone fractures and cause infertility. Athens city water has been fluoridated since 2002, […]
United States, Ohio -
Prop 65: Fluoride & its Salts selected for cancer review – comments due Dec 15, 2009
ANNOUNCEMENT OF CHEMICALS SELECTED BY OEHHA FOR CONSIDERATION FOR LISTING BY THE CARCINOGEN IDENTIFICATION COMMITTEE AND REQUEST FOR RELEVANT INFORMATION ON THE CARCINOGENIC HAZARDS OF THESE CHEMICALS [10/15/09] The California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) is the lead agency for the implementation of the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement […]
United States, California -
Letter: CDC vs. CDC [hip fracture fatalities]
According to Centers for Disease Control publications ( Stevens, Inj Prev. 2006 Oct;12(5):290 ), the United States is experiencing an astounding third of a million hip fracture fatalities yearly in citizens, where bones don’t heal during convalescence, which itself also costs billions. The Irish Osteoporosis Society reports similar data (www.fluoridealert.org). And yet both these countries […]
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Site preferences of fluoride guest ions in the calcium silicate phases of Portland cement from 29Si{19F} CP-REDOR NMR spectroscopy.
Abstract A reduction in CO(2) emission from Portland cement production can be achieved by energy savings associated with a lowering of the temperature at which the high temperature alite (Ca(3)SiO(5)) and belite (Ca(2)SiO(4)) silicates form. This can be accomplished by fluoride mineralization where a small amount of fluorine (e.g., CaF(2)) is added to the raw […]
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Town of Walker to fluoridate
Excerpt: … Also Monday night, aldermen unanimously agreed to enter into a contract with the state Department of Health and Hospitals to inject fluoride in the town’s water system. The contract amount for the agreement is $23,500 and covers the period of Nov. 1 through June 30. The fluoride chemicals alone would cost an estimated […]
United States, Louisiana -
Humboldt residents say no to fluoridation
Excerpt: … A PROPOSAL to begin fluoridating the city’s water supply was formally dropped at Monday’s meeting, the Council’s first since Humboldt voters overwhelmingly voted against fluoridation. More than 60 percent of the 712 mail-in ballots received were in opposition to the fluoridation issue. Tucker noted that the election was advisory only, but that Council […]
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Parliamentary debate on fluoridation
Excerpts from pages at http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200809/cmhansrd/cm091014/debtext/91014-0017.htm and http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200809/cmhansrd/cm091014/debtext/91014-0018.htm Mike O’Brien [The Minister of State, Department of Health] [North Warwickshire, Labour] If we really want to deal with the issues associated with child tooth decay, we will find that the better way to do so is to ensure that we have fluoridated water supplies and that we […]
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Toowoomba: Ratepayers face bill for failure
FAILING to add fluoride to the Toowoomba town water system by deadline could cost ratepayers $120,000. Councillors were told in committee meetings yesterday that work to upgrade the Mt Kynoch treatment plant would not be completed by the December 31 cut-off date set by the State Government. The council could be penalised up to 10 […]
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Bio-monitoring programme in 2010 to measure fluoride levels in general population
Excerpt of article titled: 84% of delegates vote in favour of new programme THE GREEN Party decisively endorsed the Programme for Government and also rejected, by a large majority, a motion opposing the setting up of the National Asset Management Agency (Nama). At the conclusion of its day-long special convention at the RDS on Saturday, […]
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