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Sweden: Tertiary shares rise on fluorspar test “breakthrough”
Tertiary Minerals Plc (AIM: TYM) said today it had achieved “a breakthrough” at its Storuman Fluorspar deposit in Sweden. In an update, the company said recent tests at a Canadian laboratory had shown a saleable concentration of the highest value grade of fluorspar in high volume commercial use. Previous tests in the 1970s found that […]
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Campbell-based foundation is campaigning to put fluoride in San Jose’s tap water
The Health Trust, a Campbell-based foundation that funds health initiatives, is launching a campaign to add fluoride to San Jose’s tap water. The effort is aimed at promoting dental health for city residents. San Jose is the largest city in the country to have tap water that has not been fluoridated, and studies have shown […]
United States, California -
High chemical content in drinking water causing alarm in Surpur
GULBARGA: The results of the laboratory test of the drinking water samples taken from all the villages in Surpur Taluk (population 3.36 lakhs)in Gulbarga district has some shocking revelations. A large number of drinking water sources contain high levels of harmful arsenic, nitrate and fluoride content. The findings of the detailed laboratory tests conducted at […]
India -
Dupont Presses Jersey to Water Down PFOA Risk Assessment
Washington, DC — DuPont is urgently pressing state regulators to lower a potentially multi-billion dollar water clean-up tab for a chemical once hailed as a miracle for consumers but now seen as a looming health menace. The key battleground is New Jersey, where an effort to finalize tough standards for perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), a chemical […]
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Fluoride issue heading back to court in Davis Co.
FARMINGTON — A Bountiful attorney says he will take the Davis County Commission back to court to resolve a dispute over legal fees involving a fluoride flap that has lasted seven years. David Irvine, a private attorney representing the pro-fluoride group Utahns for Better Dental Health, said he will file the motion next week. The […]
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Push to fluoridate water in San Jose
So far, tooth fairies have had it great in San Jose: The city is the largest in the country that doesn’t fluoridate its water. But now a major effort is under way to shed that title. In a push toward better dental health in the valley, advocates have launched a campaign to raise the millions […]
United States, California -
Yorkshire: Feeling sore over fluoride
CAMPAIGNERS have criticised moves that could pave the way for fluoride to be added to drinking water supplies across South Yorkshire. Regional chiefs at the Yorkshire and Humber Strategic Health Authority have begun a consultation exercise to discuss the pros and cons of adding the chemical added to water supplies in the region. The measure […]
United Kingdom, England -
Mackay Regional Council: Nebo Road pines face council chop
IT certainly won’t be Mackay Regional Council’s most popular decision; sacrificing about 180 mature pines to make way for infrastructure needed to fluoridate our water. Council plans to take chainsaws to the elegant band of pines outside the Nebo Road water treatment plant that for more than 40 years have been a landmark for people […]
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Report: Dental health efforts lagging in Palm Beach County; more fluoridation needed
PALM BEACH GARDENS — Palm Beach County must do more to improve access to dental care, especially for low-income families, according to a report released today by the Florida Public Health Institute. Among other recommendations, the seven-page report calls for more efforts to fluoridate public drinking water in communities such as Riviera Beach and Jupiter. […]
United States, Florida -
Truck carrying 16 tons of uranium hexafluoride in accident on West Virginia’s I-64
A tractor-trailer hauling radioactive materials wrecked and caught fire Sunday, forcing mass evacuations and the shutdown of part of Interstate 64 for about 17 hours, according to authorities. Despite the truck’s total destruction, authorities say the hazardous material did not leak. Around midnight Sunday, an eastbound tractor-trailer and another vehicle wrecked just past the I-64 […]
United States, West Virginia Nuclear Industry