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Varner et al. study: Brain damage in rats from fluoridated water
An animal study links low levels of fluoride in water to brain damage [Brain Res. 784, 284 (1998)]. The research was a collaboration among a chemist and two psychologists (including lead author Julie A. Varner) at Binghamton University, Binghamton, N.Y., and an EPA neurotoxicologist. Twenty-seven rats were divided into three groups and for one year […]
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Wisdom of water fluoridation debated
It’s estimated that nearly every major city in the United States has fluoridated drinking water. And that has state Assemblywoman Chris Giunchigliani wondering why Las Vegas hasn’t joined the rank and file. Fluoridation is, after all, touted by the American Dental Association and 71 other national and international professional organizations as being the most effective […]
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Meat Produced by Advanced Meat/Bone Separation Machinery and Recovery Systems
SUMMARY: In 1994, the Food Safety and Inspection Service amended its regulations to recognize that product resulting from advanced meat/bone separation machinery and recovery systems comes within the definition of meat when these recovery systems are operated to ensure that the characteristics and composition of the resulting product are consistent with those of meat. The […]
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Shattered Dreams in the Town that Cannot Smile
ONE hundred and twenty-five miles south of the Arctic circle the first snow falls in early September and can stay until June. The temperature often plummets to -40C. Seven months into the bleak 10-month winter there is little to smile about in Nadvortsy. But the weather is not the reason for the town’s grim expression. […]
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Fluoride Pollution from Aluminum Smelter in Kurri Kurri Australia
Kurri and Weston residents have made a ‘private eye’ to record industrial pollution in the area. Three people spent six weeks and used donated materials to build the mobile fluoride monitor. It will be used to independently check pollution from Kurri’s aluminium smelter and a newly opened aluminium dross factory. The residents have also bought […]
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Toxic Waste Left Off Banned List
Five chemicals subject to strict environmental controls in the United States, including an acid powerful enough to melt glass, have been left off Australia’s National Pollutant Inventory. All five of these chemicals are believed to have been released into the environment by Melbourne factories recently. The inventory, the subject of four years of negotiation between […]
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Phosphate Industry Hits Another Low
Strike the Alafia River off your list of fishing spots. It’s gone, dead as a sewer pipe, killed by the carelessness of yet another phosphate company. The enormity of the acid spill last week is only now becoming clear as biologists continue to study the river. “I think it pretty well killed everything,” said Marty […]
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Fluorosis: China’s Poison Plague
The road is narrow and choked with mud, as it winds through this rural township in China’s impoverished southern highlands and up to the weather-beaten doorway of an aging hut made of earth and straw. Inside the one-room hovel, near the beckoning warmth of an open fire, Li Fa-fa sits on a dirt floor hardened […]
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New Zealand: Uptake of fluoride into developing sheep teeth, following the 1995 volcanic eruption of Mt Ruapehu
Abstract: In the southern Spring of 1995 (mid-October) the active volcano Mt Ruapehu in the central North Island of New Zealand erupted explosively, spreading up to 40 million m3 of rhyolite tephra over thousands of km2 of farmland during the lambing season. This ash contained a high concentration of soluble fluoride, and more than 2000 […]
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Corpus Christi: Sierra Club requests criminal investigation of CITGO Refining’s May 12th accident
Excerpt: SIERRA CLUB P. O. Box 1931 Austin, TX 78767 June 26, 1997 The Honorable Jane Saginaw Regional Administrator, Region VI United States Environmental Protection Agency 1445 Ross Avenue, Suite 1200 Dallas, Texas 75202-2733 Fax 214-665-6648 Re: Criminal investigation requested of CITGO Refining’s May 12th accident at Corpus Christi, Texas due to toxic hydrofluoric acid […]
United States, Texas Oil Refineries