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Tap solution: Scots dentists’ move for fluoride in the water supply to combat children’s oral health crisis
SCOTS dentists have re-ignited a decades old debate by demanding that fluoride be added to Scotland’s drinking water to beat a children’s dental crisis exacerbated by a lack of available treatment during pandemic. The British Dental Association in Scotland (BDAS) has been concerned that according to reports from frontline staff, some 2,500 children in Scotland […]
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Piney Point: ‘No community should suffer this’: Florida’s toxic breach was decades in the making
A leak at an abandoned fertilizer plant is just the latest development at a site that has polluted the area since it was built 01:10 Drone footage of Florida reservoir shows toxic water leak near Tampa Bay – video It’s been a week since a significant leak at a long-abandoned fertilizer plant in the Tampa […]
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Spokane mayor, council president may strike deal on fluoride study
Spokane Mayor Nadine Woodward and the Spokane City Council have struck a new deal over studying a fluoride system for city water. (Christopher Anderson) Spokane leaders have renegotiated the terms of the grant used to fund the analysis in order to assuage the concerns of Spokane Mayor Nadine Woodward. The Spokane City Council accepted a […]
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NZ: Blurred boundaries risk leaving people feeling cut off from issues directly affecting them
OPINION: Stuff reporter Joel Maxwell recently questioned whether councils have a place in the modern world, where experts are increasingly called on to decide critical matters. He cites a proposal to move fluoridation from councils to the director-general of health, and asks, if local government can’t even get communities to agree to a fairly straightforward […]
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Is this your hood? Nairobi’s estate where residents have brown teeth
By Hudson Gumbihi | 3 years ago Discoloring teeth Many residents in Mihang’o and Utawala area of Nairobi have discolouring teeth because of drinking borehole water, according to their MCA Paul Kiguathi Kadosi. Residents in the area have for many years relied on underground water fetched from underground sources. Scientists say underground water contains fluoride […]
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Crowther: CDC focus
Many of us are celebrating the fact “science-based” is no longer a banned phrase in our new national administration. Not surprisingly, the new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Dr. Rochelle Walensky, has an impressive background in her science-based profession. She served previously as the chief of the Division of Infectious […]
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Textile-based wearable solid-contact flexible fluoride sensor: Toward biodetection of G-type nerve agents
Highlights Wearable textile-based sensor toward real-time detection of chemical threat agents A printed flexible solid-contact potentiometric sensor for detecting fluoride ions Robust mechanical resiliency under severe mechanical deformations is demonstrated The textile fluoride sensor is coupled with enzymatic hydrolysis of nerve agents Data confirm the wearable sensor’s immense potential to screen G-type neurotoxins Abstract Rising […]
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A study of 84 homemade toothpaste recipes and the problems arising from the type of product
Abstract Objective Growing consumer mistrust of a number of ingredients used in industry has led to the development of a trend for homemade products. This now affects all types of sectors, but particularly the hygiene sector for shampoo and toothpaste products. The aim of this work is therefore to study recipes found on the internet […]
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Flumethrin + Imidacloprid: Legal Petition Calls On EPA to Cancel Seresto Flea Collar Linked to Deaths of Nearly 1,700 Pets
Note from Fluoride Action Network: Some old info from our site Structural formula: Agency Failed to Take Action Despite More Than 75,000 Reports of Harm WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity filed a formal legal petition today urging the Environmental Protection Agency to cancel the registration of the Seresto flea and tick collar linked to […]
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Nancy Quirk appointed to federal water council following AWWA nomination
A federal committee that advises the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on issues related to the national drinking water program recently appointed a new member nominated by the American Water Works Association (AWWA). Nancy Quirk (pictured right), general manager of the Green Bay Water Utility in Wisconsin, was sworn in as one of 15 members […]
United States, National USA