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Spokane: Grant in hand, city plans to study fluoride
Spokane city officials have hired a consultant to study the controversial issue of fluoridating the municipal drinking water supply. (Christopher Anderson) After a bitter battle this summer over fluoridating the city’s water supply, Spokane is preparing to hire a consultant to study the issue. The process of choosing a consultant is expected to take […]
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Hydrogeochemical and isotopic controls on the source of fluoride in groundwater within the Vea catchment, northeastern Ghana
Highlights Fluoride is dominant in K-feldspar-rich granitoid and hornblende-biotite granitoid. Almost 61% of the samples from the Vea catchment are contaminated with fluoride. Groundwater is supersaturated with respect to albite due to silicate weathering. Silicate weathering, ion exchange, and alkaline pH control fluoride enrichment. Stable isotopes indicate meteoric origin with an evaporative effect for groundwater. […]
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Solvay Workers Found to Have Unregulated PFAS in Their Blood, Documents Show
The company, which says it now plans to phase out the chemicals, has known of potential risks for at least 15 years, internal studies show Little-known chemicals used by the manufacturer Solvay Specialty Polymers as replacements for now-regulated PFAS chemicals have been detected in the blood of company workers, according to documents obtained by Consumer […]
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CHILDSMILE. Evaluation of a national complex oral health improvement programme: a population data linkage cohort study in Scotland.
Abstract Objectives Child dental caries is a global public health challenge with high prevalence and wide inequalities. A complex public health programme (Childsmile) was established. We aimed to evaluate the reach of the programme and its impact on child oral health. Setting Education, health and community settings, Scotland-wide. Interventions Childsmile (national oral health improvement programme) […]
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Osage receives ‘Water Fluoridation Quality Award’ from IDPH
The Iowa Department of Public Health has awarded 108 water systems in Iowa the ‘Water Fluoridation Quality Award’. One of which is Osage. Additionally, Osage was awarded the 50 Year Award for distributing continuous community water fluoridation for the last 50 years. According to Casey Hannan of the CDC Division of Oral Health: “Water fluoridation […]
United States, Iowa Fluoridation award -
Missouri town averts rollback of fluoridation with help from early notification law
Law in place in Tennessee, Alabama, Texas, New York, Missouri Park Hills, Mo. — Missouri is only one of five states that has enacted an early notification law, and it came in handy when the community of Park Hills in the southeast part of the Show-Me State came close to having its community water fluoridation […]
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Recycling of Spent Pot Lining First Cut from Aluminum Smelters by Utilizing the Two-Step Decomposition Characteristics of Dolomite
Abstract Spent Pot Lining First Cut (shortened to SPL-1cut) is a solid waste discharged from a primary aluminum electrolytic production process. SPL-1cut is classified as hazardous waste in China because it contains large amounts of soluble sodium fluoride and a tiny amount of cyanide. Most of SPL-1cut is carbon-about 65%-and its calorific value is 22.587 […]
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Several Communities Receive 2019 Water Fluoridation Awards.
Several communities in the Raccoon Valley Radio-listening area have been awarded Water Fluoridation Quality Awards from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Iowa Department of Public Health announced the water systems receiving the award Thursday, including the cities of Casey, Dexter, Perry, Scranton, Guthrie Center, Greenfield, and Jefferson. Community fluoridation has been […]
United States, Iowa Fluoridation award -
No promising antidote 25 years after the Tokyo subway sarin attack: A review.
Note from FAN: The molecular structure of Sarin: Highlights This year marks 25 years since the Tokyo subway sarin attack. 2-PAM is the most widely used antidote in hospitals despite poor BBB permeability. We are trying to develop a reactivator that can easily cross the BBB. There are still no promising oximes that are safe, […]
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Alcore proves economics
PERTH (miningweekly.com) – An economic assessment of ASX-listed Australian Bauxite’s planned Alcore processing plant, has shown that it would land in the lowest cost quartile of global aluminium fluoride production. Australia’s aluminium smelters are currently entirely reliant on imported aluminium fluoride, with more than 26 000 t imported from China alone over the past 12 […]
Australia Aluminum Industry