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Bottled water ‘linked’ to tooth decay
INCREASED consumption of bottled water may be contributing to a marked decline in the dental health of young Australian children. A national study has found an increase in decayed, missing or filled baby teeth during the 1990s. The Child Dental Health Survey, Australia 1999: Trends across the 1990s compared 372,000 children with previous studies. It […]
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E.P.A. Orders Companies to Examine Effects of Chemicals
Scientists and regulators are raising concerns about the potential health and environmental effects of an important family of industrial chemicals. Those concerns were highlighted yesterday when the Environment Protection Agency announced it was forcing the chemical industry to do further research on perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA, one member of that family. The broader group of […]
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DuPont confronted over chemical’s safety
EPA and W. Va. lawsuit challenge risks posed by C-8, used to make Teflon Environmental regulators and a class action lawsuit have challenged the safety of a chemical the DuPont Co. uses to make Teflon, its best-known brand. As part of an ongoing review of ammonium perfluorooctanoate, also called C-8, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency […]
United States, Delaware Perfluorinated chemicals -
Taking Truth to Power
Dear All, I was honored a couple of weeks ago to be invited by the US EPA to participate in a one on one debate on fluoridation to be held in Washington DC on May 6. However, those responsible for finding an opponent are experiencing difficulties finding someone. Now if this was a prize fight […]
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Layton Officials Furious Over Fluoride Costs
LAYTON — Fluoridating Davis County’s water will cost at least twice as much as voters were told when they approved fluoridation in 2000. And that prospect has elected leaders of one city — Layton — livid. In a scathing letter to the Davis County Commission and Health Department last week, Mayor Jerry Stevenson accused former […]
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Health Board Practices Dubious
LAYTON — Bill Luce, who as a member of the Davis County Board of Health pushed for water fluoridation, is co-owner of a company now designing fluoridation systems for cities and water companies along the Wasatch Front. That bothers fluoridation opponents, who have been writing letters and e-mails to elected leaders and newspapers, grumbling about […]
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Waste Water Heading To Gulf With Federal OK
PALMETTO – The federal government on Wednesday gave the state permission to dump more than half a billion gallons of waste water from the abandoned Piney Point phosphate plant into the Gulf of Mexico. But an improved way to treat the water could cut the amount dumped in the Gulf – possibly by 1 million […]
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Basel Parliament Votes 73 – 23 to Stop Water Fluoridation
Basel. SDA/BaZ. The canton Basel city adjusts for years the disputed Fluoridierung of the drinking water. The use of this measure against tooth decay is not proven in opinion of the majority of the large advice. In addition, fluoride may harm the environment. The introduction of water fluoridation to fight tooth decay was decided by […]
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Fluoride issue on fall ballot in Tecumseh
Tecumseh – Tecumseh council may want to put the contentious issue of fluoridation of the town’s water to a public vote on November’s municipal election ballot. After hearing from dentists and residents both for and against the expenditure of $243,243 to build a new fluoridation system, councillors decided the issue was too complex to make […]
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No Fluoride in Holladay’s Water?
Fluoridated water may not flow to thousands of taps on Salt Lake County’s east side this fall — unlike the rest of the valley. Holladay Water Co. does not plan to include the additive to its supplies despite a countywide vote in 2000 approving fluoridation of all public drinking water. The company serves about 15,000 […]
United States, Utah