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Caries Preventative Already Has One Rap Against It
The NTP’s findings will make it difficult for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) not to classify fluoride a carcinogen, thereby terminating 40 years of public-water fluoridation in the United States.
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Don’t Drink the Water? Brush your teeth, but the fluoride from your tap may not do much good — and may cause cancer
Government researchers have new evidence that casts doubt on the benefits of fluoridation and suggests that it is not without risk. The most incendiary results come from the National Toxicology Program (NTP), which in 1977 was ordered by Congress to determine whether fluoride causes cancer. This week NTP plans to release data showing that lab rats given fluoridated water had a higher rate of a rare bone cancer called osteosarcoma.
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Fluoride Linked to Bone Cancer in Fed Study
Fluoride appears to have caused bone cancer in rodents in a recently completed National Toxicology Progran (NTP) study, and the chemical is now at risk of being classified a carcinogen, according to internal documents and statements obtained from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
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Tea May Contain More Fluoride Than Once Thought, Research Shows
Black tea, a Southern staple and the world’s most consumed beverage, may contain higher concentrations of fluoride than previously thought, which could pose problems for the heaviest tea drinkers, Medical College of Georgia researchers say. “The additional fluoride from drinking two to four cups of tea a day won’t harm anyone; it’s the very heavy […]
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Harmful Fluoride Levels Found in Instant Iced Tea
Instant iced tea mixes may contain potentially harmful levels of fluoride, according to a new study. The results indicate constantly quenching your thirst with instant iced teas may increase your risk of a rare, but potentially dangerous bone disorder caused by getting too much fluoride in your system.
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Skeletal Fluorosis in India & its Relevance to the West
While the elevated consumption of water in warm climates such as India along with the increased incidence of malnutrition make direct comparisons of the Indian experience to the “West” difficult, it is striking to observe how narrow the margin is between the doses which cause advanced fluorosis in India and the doses that people are now regularly receiving in fluoridated communities.
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’49 memo laid plan to study effects of radiation on humans
Researchers outlined an elaborate plan in 1949 to use workers at a Tennessee uranium processing plant to learn more about the long-term effects of chronic radiation exposure on humans, a recently declassified document showed. The document suggests that the aim was focused more on using the workers as guinea pigs to learn about radiation health effects than on worker protection, said one investigator. Dr. Harold C. Hodge was quoted in the Oak Ridge memo as describing the need to secure tissue samples from the uranium workers.
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South Carolina Petitions EPA to Relax Fluoride Standard
The Washington Post December 10, 1981 Too Much Fluoride in the Water? By Walter Pincus It wasn’t that long ago when some conservative groups were opposing the introduction of fluoride into local water systems, saying that the addition of the chemical to fight tooth decay was a sign that communism was taking over. Well, fluoride […]
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Fluoride Concerns Surface Once Again
Despite decades of adding fluoride to drinking water to protect teeth from decay, there are growing concerns about the efficacy and the safety of this practice. Spurred by new research on fluoride’s health effects and at the request of the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Academies’ National Research Council (NRC) has begun another review of the problems of water fluoridation.
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Ralph Nader Discusses Fluoridation
“No sub-segment of the fluoride problem, whether it is fluoridation of the water supply or fluoride pollution can be scientifically analyzed until we analyze the total fluoride intake. This focuses the need for a complete re-evaluation of our policy for fluorides. The urgent consideration is total fluoride ingestion — how much fluoride are people taking […]