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Fluoridation issue surfaces in Calderdale, West Yorkshire
FLUORIDE in our drinking water was today back at the top of Calderdale’s health agenda. Councillors are seriously considering backing the controversial move after shock figures revealed the terrible state of the district’s teeth. Moves to put the chemical in water have caused outrage in the past, with protesters saying it can cause cancer, lead […]
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Purchase of Tam fluorite properties for new source of fluorine for hydrofluoric acid and fluorinated water
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — (MARKET WIRE) — 08/30/07 — Subject to regulatory approval where required, Rocher Deboule Minerals Corp. (NEX: RD.H)(PINK SHEETS: RDBHF) has entered into an agreement with David Heyman and Clive Brooks of Vancouver, BC, to acquire the Tam fluorite properties, situated in the Liard Mining Division located at mile 498, north of […]
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Melbourne Water faces fines for spills
TAXPAYERS will be hit heavily as Melbourne Water is prosecuted over two poisonous spills into waterways in the past two years. The authority faces hefty fines over the incidents, which polluted Sugarloaf Creek in the Yarra Ranges and Cardinia Creek in Melbourne’s south-east. Cardinia Creek is a well-known platypus haven. The Age believes Melbourne Water […]
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New AIST Total Fluorine Analyzer is Several Hundred Times More Sensitive than Conventional Analyzers
Tokyo, Aug 27, 2007 (JCN) – The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), in collaboration with Masanori Hirai, President of Dia Instruments Co., Ltd., has developed a fully automatic total fluorine-analyzing system with an unprecedented high level of sensitivity. This refined analyzer can measure fluorine concentrations in gas, liquid, and solid samples […]
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Eastern Municipal Water district to add fluoride to its San Jacinto Valley customers
Eastern Municipal Water District will begin fluoridating water it sells to its San Jacinto Valley customers and to agencies that resell it to their customers in October. Eastern’s parent water district, Metropolitan, has begun fluoridating water it sells to its member agencies, but Eastern will add the tooth decay-preventing chemical at its San Jacinto filtration […]
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Fluoride meeting ire
THE only politician who attended this week’s fluoride public meeting is angry he was not given a chance to address the crowd of 800 people. The Democratic Labor Party’s Peter Kavanagh, a Western Victoria upper house MP, said he had been promised the chance to speak at the meeting by organisers. “Given that I went […]
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Metropolitan Water District to add more fluoride to local water
GRANADA HILLS – The Metropolitan Water District will begin adding more fluoride to Southland drinking water – including in the San Fernando Valley – despite concerns by some activists that too much of the chemical may cause health problems. State and federal officials have long advocated fluoridated water to prevent tooth decay, and MWD officials […]
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Why the empty chairs filled a room with vitriol
AS far as symbolism goes, it was powerful. An empty row of seats sat at the front of the stage, bearing the names of local and State Government figures and fluoride advocates who didn’t attend the public meeting. The absentees squarely in the firing line were Warrnambool’s seven councillors who have backed the move to […]
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ADA Distributing Misleading Information on Two Federal Fluoride Reports, Says Fluoride Action Network
The Fluoride Action Network (FAN) charges the American Dental Association (ADA) with circulating false and misleading information in its newsletter (8/15) that expressed concern over professional “opposition to community water fluoridation.”(1) ADA misrepresented important findings in the 2006 National Research Council (NRC)(2) report and trivialized the significance of the dental fluorosis epidemic afflicting American children […]
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Controversy Over Fluoride In Water
Since the 1940’s, cities across the nation have added fluoride to their drinking water to help prevent tooth decay. Now, San Diego joins that list but, it’s an idea that’s flowing with controversy. San Diego County is now the nation’s largest metropolitan area without fluoride in the water. But, that will soon change as Metropolitan […]
United States, California