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Queensland councils feel election pressure on fluoride
AMA Queensland president Dilip Dhupelia. Picture: Jerry Liu Doctors will challenge up to 50 Queensland councils to declare their support for fluoridation of drinking water ahead of this month’s local government elections, as the state battles the worst child tooth decay in the nation. Australian Medical Association Queensland president Dilip Dhupelia will write to councils […]
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How Toothpaste Got Scientific Cred
Would you brush with a toothpaste for the sweet taste alone or because of its touted health benefits? The answer wasn’t always so obvious. A vintage ad for Crest toothpaste via Flickr For most of us, toothpaste is among the most basic household staples due to its obvious importance for our dental health. As business […]
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No fluorosis case in Nalgonda in last six years, says Harish Rao
Hyderabad: Mission Bhagiratha and Mission Kakatiya started yielding fruits and realising the dreams of scores of people in Telangana. While Mission Bhagiratha put an end to fluorosis woes in erstwhile Nalgonda district, Mission Kakatiya stabilised about 15 lakh acres ayacut, besides increasing groundwater levels. Finance Minister T Harish Rao on Sunday cited a report by […]
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Scenario, perspectives and mechanism of arsenic and fluoride Co-occurrence in the groundwater: A review.
Highlights First review on co-occurrence perspectives of Arsenic and Fluoride in the groundwater. As and F co-occurrences is quite common yet concealed owing to one being dominant. Arid areas are more suitable for co-occurrence with few reports in the Alluvium plains. Local hydro-geochemical processes and seasonality greatly affect co-contamination. Co-contamination can have severe health and […]
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Candidate Profile: Jeffrey Hodges, Motorists Party for Lord Mayor, Brisbane
Excerpt What is your vision for Brisbane and how do you envisage that taking shape? Brisbane WITHOUT TOLLS, a superb FREE PUBLIC TRANSPORT network, and a NON-FLUORIDATED WATER SUPPLY. Council wastes over $1 Million a year on water fluoridation in the mistaken belief that this helps prevent dental caries in children, yet there is no […]
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Agencies that keep fluoridating county water deserve applause
Fairmont Water Department employee Kevin Taylor, left, Town Manager Katrina Tatum and Water Department employee Ronnie Seals, right, accept a CDC Water Fluoridation Quality Award from Tillie Clark, regional state dental hygienist. Corey Walters, assistant director of Lumberton’s Public Works Department, accepts a CDC Water Fluoridation Quality Award from Tillie Clark, regional state dental hygienist. […]
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School going sisters from Subarnapur write letter to PM Modi, seek his intervention
Amarpali: Two school going daughters of Pranabandhu Sahu of Amarpali village of Bahalpadar panchayat under Biramaharajpur block in Subarnapur district have written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, drawing his attention to the fact that their village has many patients suffering from kidney related diseases due to fluoride-rich drinking water. They have also requested […]
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Penoxsulam; Pesticide Tolerance
Molecular structure of Penoxsulam *Online here [Federal Register Volume 85, Number 46 (Monday, March 9, 2020)] [Rules and Regulations] [Pages 13548-13552] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 2020-04524] ———————————————————————– ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 40 CFR Part 180 [EPA-HQ-OPP-2019-0061; FRL-10004-86] Penoxsulam; Pesticide Tolerance AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: […]
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Hiawassee mayor responds to county’s exclusion from fluoride vote
HIAWASSEE, Ga. – As previously reported by FYN, Towns County voters will not have a say as to whether fluoride is added to the City of Hiawassee’s water supply. The decision will lie solely in the hands of Hiawassee voters due to a lack of signatures collected from citizens to place the issue on the […]
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Experts Question Evidence Linking Fluoride to Lower IQ. Version 2 of 2.
Note from Fluoride Action Network, This version of the article is longer than what was published by Medscape. FAN respectively disagrees with Dr Savitz. Most of the problems that the NAS had with the NTP study dealt with how the animal studies were handled, not with the human studies. Surprisingly, Dr Savitz did not acknowledge […]
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