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Anti-fluoridation group to attend Pasco city council meeting
PASCO — A grassroots group plans to attend the Pasco City Council meeting Monday to protest fluoride being added to the city’s water even though the council hasn’t scheduled time to hear them. Pasco has fluoridated its water supply for more than seven years to promote dental health, but some people believe fluoride can cause […]
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The Ontario Dental Association supports water fluoridation in Thunder Bay
What: ODA President Dr. Ira Kirshen will hold a press conference at the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre to discuss the importance, benefits and safety of adding fluoride to municipal water supplies. Why: In response to increasing rates of tooth decay in the region, in 2007 the Thunder Bay District Board of Health made […]
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Greenwood: Fluoridate or not? Dentist says it would improve both water and teeth
Dr. Johnny Smith knows as well as anyone that Greenwood’s teeth need help. After 27 years of peering into mouths here, the dentist can recognize patients who grew up in other areas that have fluoridated water supplies because their teeth are stronger. “I’ve seen tooth decay in all ages, from little kids all the way […]
United States, Mississippi -
ATSDR REPORT: Draft Toxicological Profile for Perfluoroalkyls. Comments due Oct 30.
See PDF version of 400 page report at http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxprofiles/tp200.pdf Public Comment Period Ends on October 30, 2009. Electronic comments may be sent to TPPublicComments@cdc.gov and should contain the docket control number ATSDR-253 in the subject line. Thirteen perfluoroalkyls are discussed. The names of these perfluoroalkyls are as follows: perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS), perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), […]
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Bay Point water provider considers 9.7 percent rate hike
Tap water with fluoride and lower levels of hazardous byproducts could come at a cost for Bay Point residents. Golden State Water Co., the community’s private water supplier, plans to ask the state Public Utilities Commission to raise customer rates 9.7 percent for the treated water it purchases from the Contra Costa Water District. That […]
United States, California -
Bottled water companies win fluoride battle
Bottled water containing fluoride is expected to hit shelves within six months in a move that has irked anti-fluoride crusaders. Australia’s food safety authority decided to allow the voluntary addition of fluoride into packaged water today after lengthy appeals by the Australasian Bottled Water Institute. Bottled water companies argued that lifting restrictions would increase consumer […]
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Thunder Bay: Giunta — Stop Fluoride Campaign
Marley Giunta a spokesperson for the group opposed to putting fluoride in Thunder Bay’s water supply states, “Thunder Bay City Council are about to vote on Monday July 20th as to whether or not water fluoridation will be on the voting ballot of the upcoming election (Nov 2010)”. “If the majority of the Councillors vote […]
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New partnerships and pilot line for IMEC’s solar cell research program
IMEC today announced that it has established new partnerships with solar cell material and equipment suppliers. These companies, including MEMC Electronic Materials Inc., Leybold Optics Dresden GmbH, Roth & Rau AG, and Mallinckrodt Baker B.V., have concluded joint-development agreements with IMEC in the frame of IMEC’s newly launched wafer-based silicon photovoltaics industrial affiliation program (IIAP). […]
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New NanoMarkets Report identifies Tin oxide doped with fluoride
Title of press release: New NanoMarkets Report Identifies the Key Opportunities for Tin in Photovoltaics GLEN ALLEN, Va., July 14 /PRNewswire/ — NanoMarkets, a leading industry analyst based here, today announced the release of its newest report, “Tin Markets for Photovoltaics,” the latest from the firm’s “Metals in PV” series examining opportunities for various metals […]
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PFOA: First papers from C8 Science Panel, Health Project
For folks who are closely following issues surrounding the toxic chemical PFOA (also known as C8), both the C8 Science Panel and the C8 Health Project have published their first papers in peer-reviewed journals. The Science Panel’s first paper went online back in March, but is just now available in the July issue of the […]
Perfluorinated chemicals