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Kathy Sinnott calls on the Government to cease fluoridating Irish drinking water
Kathy Sinnott, MEP for Ireland South and Member of the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee, and Dr Vyvyan Howard recently met with the European Commission’s Public Health and Consumer Protection directorate on the dangers to human health posed by water fluoridation in Ireland. Dr. Howard, of the University of Ulster, is a fetal […]
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Canada’s Chief Dental Officer on fluoride
As the Chief Dental Officer for Canada, I would like to highlight some of the many benefits of water fluoridation. Water fluoridation is the process of adjusting the level of fluoride in the water to provide dental health benefits. Many governments and health organizations, including Health Canada, the Canadian Public Health Association, the Canadian Dental […]
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State pumps fluoride into Mt Crosby first
THE Mt Crosby fluoride plant will be the centrepiece of the State Government’s plan to introduce the cavity busting compound into Queensland’s drinking water. Seqwater spokesman Mike Foster said six plants in south-east Queensland would be upgraded by the end of December, but work would begin at Mt Crosby as soon as next month. “Mt […]
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Southampton: First meeting of fluoride camps
THE heads of opposing camps over controversial plans to add fluoride to the water supply of nearly 200,000 Hampshire residents have met for the first time. The meeting comes as preparations step up ahead of the three-month public consultation on the proposals, which will start on September 8. As revealed in the Daily Echo, the […]
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Fluoride water coming
The Queensland government has awarded Tenix Alliance the tender to design and construct water fluoridation facilities in south-east Queensland. Premier Anna Bligh announced that Tenix would upgrade six plants to provide fluoridated water to the region by 2012, in a $35 million program. Tenix has designed and constructed more than 30 treatment plants across Australia. […]
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Mackay: Fluoride on tap from late next year
MACKAY will have fluoride added to its drinking water late next year. Just as she did with daylight saving, Premier Anna Bligh has dug in her heels over the contentious fluoridation issue. While the Premier acknowledged at yesterday’s Community Cabinet meeting in Mackay that some people were against fluoridation, she said she was satisfied it […]
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Diversity, fluoride stir debate
Local residents have been presented with a couple of complicated and controversial issues during the past few weeks. There have been no easy answers, but there has been a glut of half-truths, distortions, flat-out lies and inherited beliefs that are absolutely right or absolutely wrong — depending on who’s doing the talking. On top of […]
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Anti-fluoride Candidate Ousts ECUA Incumbent
With no campaign signs or funds raised, anti-fluoride candidate ousts ECUA incumbent Elizabeth Campbell says she owes her recent election to the Emerald Coast Utilities Authority board to a single issue: her distaste for fluoride in drinking water. Campbell ousted the incumbent candidate without raising a dime or placing a single yard sign in her […]
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Big bucks poured into fluoridating our water
Health officials are gearing up for a massive new campaign to persuade Rotorua residents and decision-makers to add fluoride to local water supplies. The Lakes District Health Board has secured $31,000 – including $25,000 from the Ministry of Health – to fund the two-year campaign which will involve blind water tasting activities at City Focus, […]
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California Legislature poised to ban chemicals in food wrappers
The California State Legislature is on the brink of banning one type of perfluorinated chemicals (PFCs) from food wrappers, starting in 2010. Both the California Senate and Assembly have passed versions of a bill to stop the use of food packaging containing eight-carbon PFCs in the state. PFCs impart oil, stain, grease, and water repellency […]
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