CLEARWATER – As promised, Pinellas County Commissioners discussed putting fluoride back in the drinking water at their Nov. 20 meeting. With two new commissioners, the board seems poised to return the additive back after nearly a year’s hiatus. Fluoride was removed from Pinellas County’s drinking water Jan. 1, after a 4-3 decision to remove it. […]
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Bundaberg: Council facing $1.4m fluoridation shortfall
The Bundaberg Regional Council says it will have to delay projects or increase water charges if fluoridation goes ahead. The council has failed to convince a parliamentary committee the city should be exempt from fluoride legislation, with only an extension of time recommended. The committee was told that Bundaberg has 10 different water supplies servicing […]
PFBS: New stain repellent chemical doubling in blood every 6 years
Glynn, A, U Berger, A Bignert, S Ullah, M Aune, S Lignell and PO Darnerud. 2012. Perfluorinated alkyl acids in blood serum from primiparous women in Sweden: Serial sampling during pregnancy and nursing, and temporal trends 1996-2010. Environmental Science and Technology http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/es301168c. As the phased-out stain repellent PFOS steadily decreases in people, its replacement is […]
Editorial: Fluoride lecture takes Mesa back in time
Residents of Mesa and the Southeast Valley are getting to see history relived. As reported by The Republic’s Gary Nelson, Mesa Councilwoman Dina Higgins, who chairs the sustainability and transportation committee, gave Mesa resident Virginia Salas the floor recently to discuss what she called “the awful truth” about fluoridated drinking water. Really? This is the […]
Southampton: Hampshire MP Julian Lewis’s fears over new fluoride threat
A HAMPSHIRE MP has urged the Government to come clean and be honest with people over plans to put fluoride their tap water. Julian Lewis fears residents will again be left powerless to prevent fluoride being added to their tap water against their wishes, even once councils are handed authority over the controversial scheme. He […]
Columbia: City considers issue of fluoride in water
Correction appended Some Columbia residents have asked the city to stop adding fluoride to public drinking water, a decades-old practice dentists and governmental agencies support for its positive effects on dental health that has been a matter of longtime debate. At the Columbia City Council’s Monday meeting, Columbia resident Amy Bremer gave a presentation about […]
Letter: Let’s not dilute the issue of our water fluoridation
An abridged version of an open letter and further correspondence to Dr Harry Comber, Director, National Cancer Registry Ireland. Cc: An Taoiseach Enda Kenny; Dr James Reilly, Minister for Health; Simon Coveney, Minister For Agriculture, Food and Fisheries; Phil Hogan, Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government; Dr Tony Holohan, Chief Medical Officer, HSE; Dr […]
Portland. Sources Say: Are politics safe to drink?
We blame it on the Fog of Politics Sources erred last issue when we said the fluoride referendum would appear on the May 2013 ballot. In fact, it is scheduled to go before Portland a full year later, in the May 2014 primary election. The City Council has the authority to move the measure to […]
Tongariro ash threat to stock
After the second Tongariro eruption, farmers and rural residents have been advised to prepare in case an even larger eruption spreads high levels of ash. Federated Farmers’ warning has gone to members in Hawke’s Bay, Waikato, Bay of Plenty, Rotorua-Taupo, Taranaki, Ruapehu, Tararua, Wanganui, Gisborne, Manawatu-Rangitikei, and Wairarapa. “While the scale of the August 6 […]
Chemical biology: DNA’s new alphabet
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When Steven Benner set out to re-engineer genetic molecules, he didn’t think much of DNA. “The first thing you realize is that it is a stupid design,” says Benner, a biological chemist at the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution in Gainesville, Florida. Take DNA’s backbone, which contains repeating, negatively charged phosphate groups. Because negative charges […]