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Tooth and Nail: Fluoride Fight Cracks Portland’s Left
PORTLAND, Ore.—In the 1950s, after health authorities began fluoridating U.S. water supplies, they faced opposition from groups like the John Birch Society, which called it “an unconstitutional mass medication of the public.” Sixty years later, the fight over fluoridation has erupted in Portland, where the battle has drawn in the city’s craft-beer brewers, organic-food purveyors […]
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Fluoride in Marin water supply becomes subject of debate
A group of Marin residents is petitioning the Marin Municipal Water District to remove fluoride from drinking water, but officials said they are bound by state law to fluoridate the county’s water supply. A loose-knit group, concerned about the health risks of fluoride, has posted a petition on www.change.org asking the district to discontinue fluoridation. […]
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Portland: Oregon official felt pressure from pro-fluoride Upstream Public Health about dental study
A state official managing a new survey of kids’ oral health met with the architects of Portland’s pro-fluoride campaign in January and later complained that she felt pressure from Upstream Public Health about how to present the findings. Those details emerged from state emails referencing the 2012 Smile Survey, a now-politicized report released April 24 […]
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MN Bill SF 1668: The repeal of municipal water fluoridation
Minnesota Senate Bill SF 1668 Municipal water fluoridation requirement repeal Introduced May 17, 2013 A bill for an act 1.2 relating to health; repealing law relating to fluoridation of municipal water; 1.3 repealing Minnesota Statutes 2012, section 144.145; Minnesota Rules, part 1.4 4720.0030. 1.5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: […]
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Did You Know Your Fluoridated Water Is Full of Cancer-Causing Arsenic?
According to the Fluoride Action Network, municipalities around the country are adding industrial-grade fluoride to our drinking water instead of pharmaceutical-grade fluoride. The industrial stuff contains enough arsenic to make us sick, and is costing us billions in extra health costs each year. Industrial-grade fluoride chemicals added to US public water supplies contain arsenic that […]
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Calgary dentists report more cavities in kids after fluoride removed from water
Calgary pediatric dentists are noticing big changes in their young patients’ dental health since the city’s fluoridation program ended in 2011, and it’s not good. With the fluoride gone, Dr. Sarah Hulland, president of the Alberta Academy of Pediatric Dentistry, said kids are coming into her office with bigger cavities than historically seen before. “More […]
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Hamburg: Burning ship had tonnes of uranium hexafluoride
After a freighter went up in flames at the start of the month while carrying radioactive material into Hamburg’s harbour, it has emerged that the German port city receives such hazardous cargo up to seven times a month. Fire fighters said they had only narrowly been able to prevent a catastrophe on May 1st when […]
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Czech, US cooperate in developing new reactors
PRAGUE (AP) — The United States says it has completed a transfer of 75 kilograms (165 pounds) of salt coolant material to the Czech Republic as part of cooperation between the two countries in developing new nuclear reactors. The U.S. Embassy in Prague says the fluoride salt comes from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge […]
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Fluoride Free Thames Sights Victory
The outcome did not reflect the dramatic events in Thames Coromandel District Council Chambers this week when two hours of volatile deliberations finally came to a head with Mayor Glenn Leach using his casting vote to break a 4/4 deadlock. This allowed a motion aimed at retaining the status quo on water fluoridation to go […]
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Sulfuryl fluoride: Bill would reverse fumigant phase-out
Dow AgroSciences, one of the nation’s largest pesticide makers, along with various food companies, have persuaded several members of Congress to endorse a bill that directs the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reverse a proposed phase-out of sulfuryl fluoride, a food fumigant and potent greenhouse gas, reports the Fluoride Action Network (FAN). If passed, the […]
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