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International Court to Examine Human Rights Violations Related to Devastation of Mexico’s Water Resources
SAN MIGUEL DE ALLENDE, Guanajuato, Mexico – The Organic Consumers Association (OCA), through its San Miguel-based Via Organica Project, will support a water tribunal in Mexico to examine human rights violations related to the exploitation and contamination of Mexico’s water resources. The OCA supports the presentation of complaints before the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (PPT), an […]
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80 Percent of Zacatecas Residents Suffer Dental Fluorosis
The Health Services in Mexico’s Zacatecas state are carrying out an anti-fluorosis campaign after it was found that approximately 80 percent of the population is affected by dental fluorosis. A subscription is needed to read the full article Below are two papers from Mexico. The first, published in 2010, Fluorides and dental fluorosis in students from […]
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Rotary Club of Tallahassee makes dreams real in Mexico
More than two centuries ago, the ancient mariner made famous by English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge cried out in despair, “Water, water every where nor any drop to drink.” Beginning in 1993 and in response to a similar cry heard around the globe in countries deprived of clean drinking water, the UN General Assembly designated […]
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Fountain of fluoride – It’s in the salt
In the United States, consumers’ preference for bottled water over tap water vexes dentists, who worry that their patients aren’t getting enough fluoride to protect their teeth. In Mexico, this question inevitably leads the conversation to salt. “In Mexico, fluoride is not incorporated into the water,” says Dr. Heriberto Vera, chief of oral health for […]
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OSPECA Logistics Management fined for exporting hydrogen fluoride to Mexico without export license
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) today announced the settlement of an enforcement case involving illegal exports. In the first case, OSPECA Logistics Management, a Brownsville, Texas-based freight-forwarder and customs brokerage, agreed to pay a $60,000 civil penalty to settle charges that it exported certain chemicals that can be used […]
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Quimica Fluor Speaks About Safety Issues and April Matamoros Acid Spill
Javier Martínez, head of Human Resources at Quimica Fluor, said that the April 16 escape of hydrofluoric acid never put human health at risk but did affect agricultural land. Quimica Fluor, owned by the Carso Group and E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co. Inc, is a Matamoros producer of anhydrous hydrofluoric acid. Martínez said that […]
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Norfluor S.V. Under Investigation
Norfluor S.V. Stepped Out Of Its Comfort Zone Located near what was once considered the outskirts of Cd. Juárez, one of the world’s largest chemical plants has had its home for 20 years and has no intention of relocating, although residents and environmentalists wish otherwise. Norfluor, S.V. one of seven major manufactures of hydrofluoric acid, […]
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Hazardous trades bring pollution and health fears down Mexico way
There is a street called Chemical Row in Matamoros, the shabby Mexican town across the border from Brownsville, Texas, which is lined with some of the most hazardous industries known to man. A long, corrugated-iron shack, now rusting with neglect, was once a lead smelter owned by Asarco, the US metals group. Behind it is […]
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Border Town Mystery: Why are so many Brownsville babies being born brainless?
Brownsville, Texas – On a hairpin bend of the Rio Grande, where the south wind from Mexico carries the sweet smell of freshly cut sorghum and the stench of chemicals, something terrible befell Janet Ramirez. The child she had prayed for, her first, was born dead with a tangled mass of nerve endings instead of […]
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Mexicans fear DuPont’s Hydrofluoric Acid plant could cause ‘Next Bhopal’
MATAMOROS, Mexico – Here, in a densely populated border city across the Rio Grande from Brownsville, Tex., the name of an infamous locale in India is heard with stunning frequency. “We don’t want to be the next Bhopal,” said Erasmo Lucio Garza, referring to the site of the 1984 toxic gas leak at a Union […]
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