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Fluoride Foes Get Validation
Over the last six years, Lynne Campbell has become accustomed to being called a liar and a kook. That’s how long it’s been since she left her advertising job to fight fluoride full time, trying to keep the cavity-fighting chemical out of Portlanders’ drinking water. But while fluoridation proponents have long maintained that Campbell and […]
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Juneau: Report raises fluoride fears
A city worker flipped the switch and fluoride filled the veins of Juneau’s drinking water supply Wednesday – the same day a federal report’s release may have given ammunition to those seeking a fluoride-free community. A report by the National Academy of Sciences’ National Research Council found that people exposed to the maximum allowed level […]
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Gaya’s children suffering physical deformities due to fluoride
Gaya: Water, water everywhere and not a single drop to drink! Many of us may have read this English phrase several times, but for the residents Banke Bazar in Gaya, it summarises their plight, making survival their toughest challenge. The alarming levels fluoride content in the water has made these residents too scared to take […]
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Government Panel Raises Concern About Fluoride
A panel of the National Academy of Sciences concluded yesterday that the maximum amount of fluoride currently allowed in the nation’s drinking water can cause health problems and “should be lowered.” The report concluded that children exposed to four milligrams of fluoride per liter, the highest allowable level, risk developing severe dental fluorosis, in which […]
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Excess fluoride can hurt teeth, bones, IQ
A new study released Wednesday has shown that too much fluoride in tap water could be harmful, causing cavities rather than preventing them and leading to bone damage and possibly even lower IQ levels. The report by the National Academy of Sciences found that people exposed to the maximum level of fluoride allowed in tap […]
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Report raises flag on fluoride
Government limits on fluoride in drinking water aren’t protecting the public from possible tooth and bone damage, a prestigious advisory panel says. The Environmental Protection Agency allows so much fluoride that some children in areas with unusually high natural fluoride levels are developing discolored teeth and weakened tooth enamel, according to the report from the […]
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Fluoride study out
A long-awaited study on the safety of adding fluoride to drinking water is out, but more time will pass before possible fluoridation decisions are made in the City of Boulder. A press release summarizing a lengthy report from the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) said, for starters, that the current allowable level of fluoride in […]
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NRC Delivers Wake Up Call on Fluoride
A National Research Council (NRC) report on fluoride toxicity released today gives powerful evidence that many Americans are being over-dosed with harmful levels of fluoride. A wide range of health problems are cited in the report, with bones and teeth being the foremost, but not sole, targets of concern. The current “maximum contaminant level” for fluoride, 4 parts per […]
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EPA standard for fluoride in drinking water Is not protective; tooth enamel loss, bone fractures of concern at high levels
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s standard for the maximum amount of fluoride allowed in drinking water — 4 milligrams of fluoride per liter of water — does not protect against adverse health effects, says a new report from the National Academies’ National Research Council. According to the most recent data, just over 200,000 […]
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Activists worry a new pesticide will put toxic levels of fluoride in food
These days, fluoride is hardly viewed as a subversive communist plot to “sap and impurify our precious bodily fluids,” as Ripper believed. Yet, while the public has largely accepted fluoridation in the name of protecting our pearly whites against cavities, fluoride could also enter the food supply as a pesticide, adding to the amount we’re […]
United States, National USA