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Ballance Agri-Nutrients faces big fine for toxic gas cloud
Ballance Agri-Nutrients is facing a large fine after a toxic gas cloud from its fertiliser manufacturing plant wafted over a group of workers and two truck drivers. Workers at the Ballance site described seeing a “huge gas cloud” , 20 to 30m wide, heading towards Mauao. Others described it as “a plume of black smoke […]
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My guide to fluoride: Fluoride is a tooths best friend
WHY DOES MY CHILD NEED FLUORIDE? Fluoride is a natural mineral found in drinking water and many foods. It plays an important role in your child’s oral health by strengthening their tooth enamel, making it more resistant to tooth decay. Acid attacks you child’s teeth, but fluoride reduces the amount of acid bacteria can produce […]
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Millions of parents putting children’s health at risk by not knowing dental care facts, according to research
‘It is essential that parents regularly take their children to the dentist as soon as their baby has their first tooth or turns one – whichever is sooner’ Excerpt Top Tips for good dental health in children • Take your child to the dentist as soon as their first tooth comes through. • Give your […]
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Kidney ailment becoming major health threat in Telangana
Kidney ailment is more prevalent in villages such as Guruja, Khunikhasa, Kanchanpelli, Jalaja and Devnagar in the district. ADILABAD: Kidney ailment is emerging as one of the major disease affecting the local population of erstwhile Adilabad district. In the last three years, over 25 people, including children died of kidney ailment and over 300 people are undergoing […]
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Parents pay more than TWICE as much for kids’ toothpaste that do the same job as adults’
Many opt for expensive children’s brands assuming they contain less fluoride and are therefore safer Parents can pay more than twice as much for kids’ toothpastes that do the same job as adults’. Many opt for expensive children’s brands assuming they contain less fluoride and are therefore safer. But the Sunday People found nearly all […]
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Adding fluoride to Darlington’s water supply is examined
INVESTIGATIVE work has been launched to consider whether fluoride should be added to the drinking water of a town with a high proportion of children with tooth decay. Darlington’s director of public health Miriam Davidson said the town’s council was taking part with neighbouring authorities in a technical appraisal to look at the feasibility of […]
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Newly developed molecule to improve pharmaceuticals draws inspiration from nature’s toolbox
However, there is only one fluorination reaction known to occur in nature. And this process is performed by complex and highly specialized enzymes that are difficult to replicate. Now, scientists have developed a new, streamlined molecule that can do the work of enzymes but be designed and controlled minutely. This new catalyst transforms a safe, […]
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In Worst-Case Scenario, Chemical Release At Superior Refinery Would Double Evacuation Area
Entire City Of Superior, Much Of Duluth Would Be Affected A tank containing hydrofluoric acid at the Husky Energy oil refinery recently forced a temporary evacuation in Superior after a series of explosions and fires there. The highly toxic chemical could have prompted an evacuation of more than 25 miles if that tank had been […]
United States, Wisconsin Oil Refineries -
Toxic water fears in Pakistan region infamous for deformities
Assadullah (Pakistan), May 11 (AFP) Basharat Ali was 15 when his legs began to falter, a condition doctors have blamed on polluted water in a Pakistani region infamous for the deformities that afflict many of its people. Too weak to carry his own schoolbag, he was taken to hospital, where doctors said water laden with […]
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Gov. Study Confirms Fluoride Harms Fetal Brain; Lowers IQ
The first ever US government funded study of fluoride and IQ reveals that pregnant women exposed to fluoride lowers the IQ of their offspring. The study, published in Environmental Health Perspectives and funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, confirms that mothers who drink water contaminated with fluoride will see a loss of 6 […]
United States, National USA