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Toothpaste set to carry fluoride poison warning
HEALTH warnings could be placed on tubes of fluoride toothpaste sold in Britain after the issue of a United States alert on the dangers of swallowing the chemical. At least one supermarket chain is considering changes after the Washington-based Food and Drug Administration set out a stringent new labelling requirement. Fluoride toothpaste sold in the […]
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Toothpaste: How Safe?
Last month, as 8-year-old Molly Statt stood in the bathroom brushing her teeth, something on the back of the large-size tube of Crest caught her attention. She stopped brushing. Looking up at her father standing beside her, she motioned to the toothpaste and asked, “Is this poison?” “Of course not,” Paul Statt reassured his daughter. […]
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Toothpaste warning labels concern parents
Last month, as 8-year-old Molly Statt stood in the bathroom brushing her teeth, something on the back of the tube of Crest caught her attention. She stopped brushing. Looking up at her father standing beside her, she asked, “Is this poison?” “Of course not,” Paul Statt reassured his daughter. “Then why does it say ‘poison’ […]
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Corpus Christi: CITGO findings disputed
The Texas Sierra Club on Friday disputed the findings of a CITGO-hired botanist who said that toxic gas did not escape into the neighborhoods after the May 12 refinery explosion because vegetation in the area wasn’t damaged. Neil Carman, the Sierra Club’s clean air program director, said he found lots of brown plants. After hearing […]
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Hazardous trades bring pollution and health fears down Mexico way
There is a street called Chemical Row in Matamoros, the shabby Mexican town across the border from Brownsville, Texas, which is lined with some of the most hazardous industries known to man. A long, corrugated-iron shack, now rusting with neglect, was once a lead smelter owned by Asarco, the US metals group. Behind it is […]
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Group urges safer chemical for refinery
A report released by an environmental group criticizes Clark Oil’s use of hydrofluoric acid at the company’s Blue Island refinery. The reports says a safer alternative is available. The report, compiled by California-based National Oil Refinery Action Network and issued last week, suggests that the 50-year-old plant could replace hydrofluoric acid with sulfuric acid as […]
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Scientists Urge Governor Whitman to Take Action to Fluoridate all New Jersey Water Supply
New York, NY, April 9, 1997 — Scientists and physicians from the American Council on Science and Health have urged New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman to vigorously promote community water fluoridation in New Jersey. “Fluoridation remains the safest, most effective, and most economic public-health measure to prevent tooth decay and to improve oral health […]
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Gypsum finds ecological concerns stacked against it
Anybody who’s lived in the Bay Area for any amount of time need not look at the numbers provided by the Florida Phosphate Council to understand how important the industry is to Central Florida. Last year alone, according to the Florida Phosphate Council, 33.8 million metric tons of phosphate rock were extracted from 6,355 acres […]
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Colgate pay-out stirs up fluoride row
FRESH calls to end fluoridation of water are to be put to the Government by a group of MPs led by Sir Ivan Lawrence, the Conservative member for Burton-on-Trent. Their action follows a decision reported yesterday, by the toothpaste manufacturer Colgate-Palmolive to make a “goodwill” payment of £1,000 to a 10-year-old Essex boy suffering from […]
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Colgate pays out for teeth ruined by fluoride
A leading toothpaste manufacturer has paid £1,000 to s child whose teeth appear to have been damaged by fluoride. In what is to believe is the first such case, Colgate-Palmolive made a “goodwill” payment after an independent specialist diagnosed the boy as suffering from a condition lined with fluoride. At the time, The Sunday Telegraph […]
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