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ODA continues to support water fluoridation
Dear Editor: Re: ODA pleads guilty in case, Oct. 31, Waterloo Chronicle. Bob Vrbanac’s article covers one perspective on the outcome of the recent legal case involving the Ontario Dental Association (ODA). As President of the ODA, I’d like to share with the residents of Waterloo the ODA’s position on this matter. Our association made […]
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EU: Questions and Answers on the Commission proposal to reduce emissions of climate-warming fluorinated gases
Questions and Answers on the Commission proposal to reduce emissions of climate-warming fluorinated gases 1. What is the European Commission proposing? The Commission has put forward a proposal to replace the existing Regulation 1 on fluorinated greenhouse gases with the aim of significantly reducing emissions of the gases in the European Union. By setting the […]
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EU: Gradual ban on HFCs proposed
The European Commission wants to reduce the use of the powerful global warming gases mainly used in refrigerators and air-conditioners. The European Commission proposed today (7 November) to reduce the use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), powerful global warming gases mainly used in refrigerators and air-conditioners. Under the proposal, the use of HFCs will be cut to […]
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Higher PFCs when pregnant linked to smaller daughters at birth
Maisonet, M, ML Terrell, MA McGeehin, KY Christensen, A Holmes, AM Calafat and M Marcus. 2012. Maternal concentrations of polyfluoroalkyl compounds during pregnancy and fetal and postnatal growth in British girls. Environmental Health Perspectives http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1003096. A pregnant woman’s exposure to chemicals that make consumer products stain and water resistant may affect the growth and weight […]
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Wichita voters reject fluoridated water
Voters in the city of Wichita rejected fluoridated water on Tuesday, as they did in 1964 and 1978. Election returns posted early Wednesday morning showed a fluoride initiative sponsored by local dentists and doctors failed with 59 percent voting no. Jonathan Hall of Wichitans Opposed to Fluoridation said the results were confirming what he sensed […]
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Harvard voters say no to fluoride
It’s an issue we saw a lot of cities vote on back in 2008. Fluoridating city water supplies. Well, 4 years later, the small town of Harvard, Nebraska is dealing with it now. And, they don’t want it. “I mean we’re so uncertain what’s in our water today anyway. I just think adding more additives and […]
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Pinellas County commissioners blame fluoride vote for failed re-election bids
For nearly 30 years, not a single Republican incumbent on the Pinellas County Commission has lost a general election. Voters ended that legacy Tuesday, ousting two commissioners among the board’s more conservative voices. In the end, the races did not turn out to be the nail-biters that some had predicted. Republican Commissioner Neil Brickfield lost […]
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Water fluoridation-cancer link is ‘improbable’
Some maps contained in an all-Ireland cancer atlas published recently by the National Cancer Registry of Ireland (NCRI) and the Northern Ireland Cancer Registry (NICR) have been used erroneously by anti-fluoridation groups to suggest a link between water fluoridation and cancer, according to the two registries. The All-Ireland Cancer Atlas 1995-2007, in which these maps […]
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Portland: Anti-fluoride group to launch second campaign
Anti-fluoride forces will soon start a second signature-gathering campaign, for an initiative that would amend the Portland City Charter to ban fluoridation. Multnomah Circuit Court Judge Karin Immergut cleared the way for signature-gathering Tuesday when she approved the ballot language for the initiative, said Kim Kaminski, director of Clean Water Portland. The group earlier submitted […]
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Nigeria: portable devices that can test for fluorine in food
United Nations Children’s Fund has given Nigeria’s food regulation agency 36 kits that test for micronutrients in foods without recourse to a laboratory. The kits can test for vitamin A in manufactured products–many of which are not verified by National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) and produce results in 10 minutes. […]
Nigeria