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Fayette County resolution supports local control of fluoride
The subject of adding fluoride to municipal drinking water has again floated to the surface of Fayette County’s legislative concerns. The Board of Commissioners voted 5-0 on Dec. 10 to endorse a resolution that encourages the Fayette County delegation to the General Assembly to consider amending state law to allow individual cities and counties to […]
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A characterization of groundwater fluoride, influencing factors and risk to human health in the southwest plain of Shandong Province, North China
Highlights Over 30% of the groundwater samples have fluoride >1.0 mg L?1. Cation exchange was an important factor affecting the fluoride concentration of groundwater in the study area. Distributions of fluoride concentration and hazard quotient for children and adults were obtained. Fluoride concentration was the most influential variable in the risk assessment. Abstract This study […]
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Fluoride & Dental Health by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
Fluoride & Dental Health Online as of December 27, 2020 Overview Fluoride (said like floor-eyed) is a mineral that occurs naturally in soil, water, and air that has been shown to prevent cavities, or tooth decay. For the past several decades, fluoride has been added to community water supplies and oral care products such as […]
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The Story of Fluoridation by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
Health Info on fluoride Online as of December 27, 2020 The Story of Fluoridation It started as an observation, that soon took the shape of an idea. It ended, five decades later, as a scientific revolution that shot dentistry into the forefront of preventive medicine. This is the story of how dental science discovered-and ultimately […]
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Ford: City council owes it to Calgary’s children to return fluoride to our water
Note from Fluoride Action Network: Catherine Ford is a columnist and has the right to share her opinion, however misinformed it is. She states, “The anti-fluoride crowd is passionate in its argument against the additive, calling it poison, saying it builds up in the body and causes all sorts of dreadful conditions, taking the “risk” […]
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Dr. Arthur Bushel “launched one of the first campaigns to prevent cavities by fluoridating the New York City water supply”
The title of the article: Dr. Arthur Bushel, dental health pioneer, dies Dr. Arthur Bushel, a retired dentist who taught at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and was an expert on fluoridation, died of complications of normal pressure hydrocephalus Nov. 21 at the North Oaks Retirement Community. He was 99. Born in […]
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Arcata’s janky fluoride rig getting an upgrade
The Integrity Municipal Systems LLC Fluoride Feed System. Mad River Union ARCATA – The City Council last week approved a $38,000 upgrade to its fluoride feed system. The current system, cobbled together from disparate parts, is old, janky, fussy and not the safest for city workers. Upgrading it hasn’t been easy. Vendors were either unresponsive […]
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Evaluation of fluoride levels in commercially available tea in the United States.
Note from Fluoride Action Network: The publish date for this paper is Jan-Feb 2020; yet the abstract was just made available online. Abstract The objective of this study was to compare fluoride levels in commercially available black tea, green tea, and matcha tea. Tea samples were purchased from a local supermarket in the United States […]
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Sulfuryl fluoride: Commodity risk assessment of oak logs with bark from the US for the oak wilt pathogen Bretziella fagacearum under an integrated systems approach
Note from Fluoride Action Network: The brain is the main target of Sulfuryl fluoride. Structural Formula of Sulfuryl Fluoride: Abstract The European Commission submitted to the EFSA Panel on Plant Health a Dossier by USDA proposing a systems approach to mitigate the risk of entry of Bretziella fagacearum to the EU when trading oak logs […]
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Fluoridation milestone for Newman
Fluoridated drinking water will begin flowing through the taps of Newman by September 2023. Supplementation of Newman’s water supply with the tooth-strengthening mineral will bring Newman into line with other major communities in the region such as Kununurra, Broome, Derby, Hedland, Roebourne, Karratha, Dampier and Exmouth. Fluoridation of Newman’s water supply is part of a […]
Australia