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Hampshire’s fluoride campaigners take protest to Downing Street
CAMPAIGNERS fighting plans to add fluoride to Hampshire’s tap water today delivered their views to the Prime Minister. Members of Hampshire Against Fluoridation took a petition containing 15,300 names calling for the controversial scheme to be scrapped to Downing Street this morning. The activists were joined by Hampshire MPs Chris Huhne, Julian Lewis and Sandra […]
United Kingdom, England -
Southampton: John Denham wants delay on fluoride in Southampton’s water
JOHN DENHAM has called on health bosses to put on hold controversial plans to add fluoride to Hampshire’s water supply. Making his first public comment on the issue, the Southampton Itchen MP has warned there is a “real danger” that fluoridation will be introduced against the wishes of too many people. He spoke out as […]
United Kingdom, England -
Toowoomba: $4m cost to fluoridate city water
IT would cost up to $4 million to fluoridate the entire Toowoomba city water supply, top council officials have revealed. The State Government estimates about $200,000 would need to be spent on each of the city’s 16 bore water injection points to ensure the right dosage was added. Water operations manager Alan Kleinschmidt said this […]
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Georgia: Dalton Utilities hasn’t seen PFOA test results, confident water OK
Despite media reports, officials with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Dalton Utilities say they haven’t seen the results of any tests showing the industrial chemical Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) in local water. Georgia Public Broadcasting reported last week that the EPA had found PFOA in the drinking water supplies for both Dalton and Rome. Citing […]
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US Fluoropolymer Demand to Reach $1.7 Billion in 2013
US demand for fluoropolymers will rise 4.5 percent per year to $1.7 billion in 2013. Gains will represent an acceleration from the pace of the 2003-2008 period, during which the fluoropolymer market was hampered by weakness in the manufacturing sector. Going forward, fluoropolymer demand will be driven by a turnaround in key markets such as […]
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Portland: 2 restaurant owners want fluoride out of water
Restaurant owners Igor Rakuz, left, who owns GRO Cafe, and Oliver Outerbridge, who owns Bonobo, today kicked off a petition campaign to force a referendum in the towns served by the Portland Water District that would ask voters if they want to remove fluoride from the water system. The grassroots group they’re heading is called […]
United States, Maine -
Town of Halfmoon will receive fluoridated water until the Fall of 2009
The following announcement was sent out sometime in May 2009 to the residents in the Town of Halfmoon: From Mindy A. Wormuth, Town Supervisor Town of Halfmoon 2 Halfmoon Town Plaza, Halfmoon, NY 12065 County of Saratoga mwormuth@townofhalfmoon.org Important Announcement Please be advised that the Town of Halfmoon is receiving water from the City of […]
United States, New York -
Southampton/Hampshire: Campaigners taking 14,000-name petition to Downing Street
ANTI-fluoride campaigners will tomorrow deliver a petition to the Government, calling for plans to add the chemical to Hampshire’s water be scrapped. Around 30 activists will travel to Downing Street to hand over the signatures they have collected in opposition to the controversial scheme. The petition calls on Prime Minister Gordon Brown to reverse South […]
United Kingdom, England -
Health officials rebut claim
Public Health South officials have criticised a Dunedin-based anti-fluoride lobby group for “misleading and untrue” claims about the Blueskin Bay water supply. Fluoride Action Network Dunedin representative Olive McRae warned mothers in the Blueskin Bay area not to use the area’s new fluoridated tap water to mix infant formula. “This is due to medication of […]
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Quebec hospital produces a sodium fluoride isotope without nuclear reactor
A hospital in Quebec has found a way to ease the impact of the worldwide shortage of medical isotopes by resurrecting an old test that uses an isotope that doesn’t require a nuclear reactor to produce it. The shortage of medical isotopes was caused by a shutdown last month of the nuclear reactor at Chalk […]
Nuclear Industry