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Sulfuryl fluoride: New food pesticide dangerous for all Americans, three environmental groups warn
Three environmental groups are urging the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to revoke their approval of sulfuryl fluoride as a pesticide fumigant on food. EPA approved sulfuryl fluoride as an alternative food fumigant to ozone-depleting methyl bromide. The groups say additional fluoride levels in food will be harmful to the health of all Americans because fluoride […]
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New food pesticide dangerous for all Americans, three environmental groups warn
New York – December 21, 2005 — Three environmental groups are urging the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to revoke their approval of sulfuryl fluoride as a pesticide fumigant on food. EPA approved sulfuryl fluoride as an alternative food fumigant to ozone-depleting methyl bromide. The groups say additional fluoride levels in food will be harmful to […]
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Mosaic Spill Causes Fish Kill In Archie Creek
RIVERVIEW – About 40,000 gallons of acidic process water leaked from a pipe at Mosaic Fertilizer plant, causing a small fish kill, according to environmental and company officials. The leaking pipe, which runs under U.S. 41, was detected about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday, according to Mosaic spokesman David Townsend. The spill was contained, but sensors in […]
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Hampton votes not to add fluoride to water
HAMPTON — After a lengthy debate, the Hampton City Council decided not to add fluoride to the city’s water supply. By a vote of 4-2 Tuesday, the council decided to repeal a 1975 ordinance which called for fluoridation. In November, Hampton’s four dentists asked the council to resume filtering and fluoridating the city’s water. Speaking […]
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Fluoride war still coming
If you think you are getting fluoridated water when you turn on your faucet — you are so wrong. Unless you are a customer being served by the Port Hueneme Water agency, which started fluoridating in November of 1998, you are merely getting good old-fashioned H20 — and a soupcon of chloramine. In fact, Port […]
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Fluoridation: Debate over safety is renewed
Support for a statewide water fluoridation mandate appears to be weakening on Beacon Hill, where the measure’s proponents say they want to study reports linking fluoride to health problems before taking a vote. Sen. Pamela Resor, D-Acton, filed legislation to mandate fluoridation but now says research linking fluoridated water to bone cancer and other problems […]
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Fluoride leak shuts the taps
Dec 11, 2005 — Officials are investigating a leak at a Pennsylvania-American Water Co. treatment plant that sent an estimated 600 gallons of fluoride into the system on Saturday, prompting a public warning for customers not to drink the water. The leak raised the fluoride levels in the area from one part per million to […]
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Are your teeth toxic?
A professional musician from Arlington Heights suffers from mysterious rashes and lip blisters. A dental hygienist in Hoffman Estates battles migraines. And a social worker in Prospect Heights is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. All three tried treating their ailments using a controversial method: by having dentists remove and replace their so-called “silver” amalgam tooth fillings, […]
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Fluoride measure backers consider their next move
The two major contributors to the failed ballot measure to fluoridate Bellingham’s water disagree on whether it’s worthwhile to take the issue to voters in the wake of last month’s election result. “I think we’ll not be pursuing initiatives for the foreseeable future,” said David Hemion, assistant executive director of the Washington State Dental Association, […]
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ACSH’s Stier on NPR
Excerpt: ACSH associate director Jeff Stier appears on NPR’s Talk of the Nation show to discuss health rumors, Dec. 7, 2005 at 3:20pm Eastern — with the audio available online thereafter. Below is an excerpt from the show transcript:… NEIL CONAN (HOST): Here’s an e-mail we got from Jackson in Basalt, Colorado. `Who started the […]
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