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  • Saudi Arabia: Say NO to fluoride in drinking water

    Several months ago, Saudi Arabian Standard Organization (SASO) announced the fluoridation of public water to help reduce tooth decay. Well, at first I thought it was a good preventive measure, but then I discovered that even local bottled water is fluoridated at 0.80 mg per liter. I would not be writing this column if I […]

  • Portsmouth. Report: Federal PFC levels not protective enough

    PORTSMOUTH — An article just published by public health professors from Harvard University and Boston University concludes that the provisional health advisory level for a chemical found in three city wells “may be 100-fold too high.” The city closed the Haven well in May 2014 after the Air Force tested the well and found levels […]

  • Stain-resistant chemicals linked to high blood pressure during pregnancy

    Darrow, LA, CR Stein, K Steenland. 2013. Serum perfluorooctanoic acid and perfluorooctane sulfonate concentrations in relation to birth outcomes in the mid-Ohio Valley, 2005-2010. Environmental Health Perspectives. Mothers’ exposure to chemicals that make consumer products stain- and water-resistant was linked to high blood pressure during pregnancy in an analysis of highly exposed communities in West […]

  • DuPont recognises outstanding fluorine chemistry research by young scientists

    Geneva, Switzerland – In recognition of his outstanding creativity, innovation and productivity in recent fluorine chemistry research, Prof. Dr. Sebastian Riedl of the Berlin Institute for Chemistry and Biochemistry has received the very first International Young Talent Award in Fluorine Chemistry from DuPont Chemicals & Fluoroproducts (DC&F) at the occasion of the recent 17th European […]

  • C8 Lawsuit Lawyers from Wright & Schulte LLC Will Meet with Residents In Mid-Ohio Valley Who Wish to File a C8 Lawsuit Against DuPont

    The 3C8 lawsuit lawyers at Wright & Schulte LLC, an experienced personal injury law firm, will be meeting with mid-Ohio Valley residents who would like to discuss filing a C8 lawsuit against DuPont in September. If you would like to attend a meeting please call 1-800-399-0795 or contact us through our FREE case review form […]

  • Environmentalists seek testing of South Jersey water

    PAULSBORO Environmentalists are calling on the federal government to investigate their concerns that a South Jersey chemical plant may be contaminating drinking water with carcinogenic chemicals, and accusing state officials of years of inaction on the issue. The Delaware Riverkeeper Network, an advocacy group that seeks to protect the river’s watershed, says public health is […]

  • Prima Fluorspar Corp. enters into LOI to acquire controlling interest in a Mongolian Fluorspar Mining Company

    Prima Fluorspar Corp. (TSX-V:PF) (“Prima” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that on August 30, 2013 it entered into a non-binding letter of intent with three funds managed by affiliates of New York-based Firebird Management LLC (“Firebird”),  to negotiate the purchase of holding companies through which Firebird controls it 99.8% ownership stake in BerkhUul […]

  • Chemical & Biological Weapons. Fluorine chemicals. 1995 UN Monitoring and Verification of Iraq’s Compliance.

    Note from FAN: Section C, cited below, of the 1991 UN Security Council Resolution 687, “Invites Iraq to reaffirm unconditionally its obligations under the Geneva Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare, signed at Geneva on 17 June 1925, and to […]

  • Lake Elmo quits state’s PFC lawsuit against 3M

    The city of Lake Elmo has decided to withdraw from the state’s case against 3M Co. over PFCs in the east metro area, dealing a second setback in recent weeks to the nearly 3-year-old lawsuit. Instead, the city has entered an agreement to discuss issues surrounding perfluorochemicals directly with the company instead of through the […]

  • Chemical Used In “Harmless” Subway Gas Test Linked To Early Menopause

    As you may have noticed, Brookhaven National Laboratory and the City of New York are currently cooperating on the largest urban airflow study in U.S. history—and you get to be the guinea pig! Yesterday they released “low concentrations of harmless gases” known as perfluorocarbons into the subway system and at street level, as part of […]