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Labour opens coffers wide to offer free dental checks
Party says £450m policy will save on hospital bills from adults with teeth problems who cannot afford to visit dentists Jeremy Corbyn arrives at meeting on the Labour manifesto in London this afternoon Dominc Lipinski/PA A Labour government would introduce free dental check-ups for everyone in England, party chiefs have agreed. At an estimated cost […]
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Stop Poisoning Water With Fluoride
Activists are battling in court to stop a powerful federal agency from fluoridating our water. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) maintains that fluoride prevents cavities, a long-cited but widely disproven “benefit” of this hazardous waste byproduct of aluminum and fertilizer production. Thus, the agency concludes, adding the chemical to public water is wholly justified—despite thoroughly […]
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Tap water in Mumbai safe for drinking; not in other metros, 17 state capitals: Govt study
New Delhi, Nov 16 (PTI) Mumbai residents need not buy reverse osmosis (RO) water purifiers as a study by the Union Consumer Affairs Ministry has found samples of tap water collected from the financial capital compliant with the Indian standards for drinking water, according to a report. However, other metro cities of Delhi, Kolkata and […]
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Opinion: Washington must revoke sanctions waiver after latest nuclear violation
The “maximum pressure” policy against the Islamic Republic of Iran is one-year old. So too, ironically, is the Trump administration’s policy of providing sanctions waivers for select Iranian nuclear projects permitted by the 2015 nuclear deal. The most troublesome of these waivers — as we have previously written — is for an underground nuclear bunker […]
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Mosaic submits ‘Critical Condition Report’ to FDEP, EPA
BARTOW – In less than one year’s time, there have been three incidents at Mosaic’s Bartow facility that were serious enough to mandate staff to alert government regulators, including one incident that occurred as recently as last month. Based on Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) public records, cracks were discovered on the south and […]
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Spatial distribution of fluoride in drinking water and health risk assessment of children in typical fluorosis areas in north China.
Highlights Fluoride content in drinking water for fluorosis areas in Tianjin was investigated. MWS system has a better effect on reducing water fluoride concentration. Younger children (1–4 years old) are more vulnerable to high fluoride exposure. Special attention should be paid to health education strategies against fluorosis. Abstract China has been suffering from endemic fluorosis […]
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Federal Judge to Decide if Fluoride-in-Water Case Goes to Trial
Health advocates filed suit in 2016 to try to force EPA to reduce fluoride exposure Implications for other groups seeking to regulate chemicals The future of a suit challenging the EPA’s stance that fluoride in drinking water doesn’t pose unreasonable risks to young children is the focus of dueling motions before a federal judge in […]
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Fluoride reactivation-enabled sensitive quantification of tabun adducts on human serum albumin by GC-MS/MS via isotope dilution.
Organophosphorus nerve agents inhibit the cholinesterase activity by phosphylation of the active site serine. The resulting phosphylated cholinesterase and adducts on human serum albumin (HSA) are appropriate biomarkers for nerve agents exposure. Several methods have been developed for the detection of nerve agents, including fluoride reactivation or alkaline cleavage. It was previously thought that some […]
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Fluoride Q coming to Rangely ballot
RANGELY | The Town of Rangely will be the next local entity to decide if it wants to keep fluoridating the town’s water supply. The Board of Trustees approved a resolution Tuesday to present fluoridation to voters in the April election. The measure passed by a narrow margin in Meeker this month. Rangely trustees heard […]
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Calgary: City council called on to look at cost of putting fluoride back into drinking water
CALGARY (660 NEWS) – Dental and medical experts are calling on city council to find out the cost of reinstating fluoride back into our drinking water. In 2011, the costs were estimated to be 6 to 10 million to buy and install the equipment, and 750,000 annually to purchase the product. Last month, a city […]
Canada, Alberta