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Fluoride poisoned people in India need our help
Dear All, Michael Connett received a heart rending appeal today from a group in India which is working on behalf of the people of Nalgonda District in India who are being poisoned with water naturally high in fluoride. They are being poisoned both by the fluoride and by political neglect. As they say in their […]
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Vanuatu: Environmental impacts on health from continuous volcanic activity at Yasur (Tanna) and Ambrym
Abstract: Continuous low-level basaltic volcanic activity, from Yasur Volcano in Tanna, and Marum and Benbow vents on Ambrym, occurred for as long as records have been kept in Vanuatu. The potential chronic health implications for the inhabitants of these two areas were investigated in a preliminary environmental sampling program. The focus was particularly on fluoride […]
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Nuclear plant to supply fluoride for water
The nuclear energy establishment wants to cash in on South Africa’s controversial chemical “tooth medicine” plan, writes TONY CARNIE THE Pelindaba nuclear/chemical complex – set up by the apartheid government in the 1960s to produce atomic bombs and enriched uranium fuel – is set to become the major supplier of hundreds of tons of fluoride […]
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Fluoridation: Key Moments in Ending an Indefensible Practice
As we have reached IFIN #600, and it is a Sunday, I thought it would be an appropriate time for a little reflection. Here is a short essay. Paul Connett ———————————————————————— FLUORIDATION: KEY MOMENTS IN ENDING AN INDEFENSIBLE PRACTICE. There have been many important moments in the long battle to end water fluoridation: the practice […]
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Opponents gnash teeth at fluoride law
Flouride will be added to water throughout the country by the end of next year in terms of instructions issued by Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang. But the plans to put the controversial chemical into drinking water have sparked a flurry of complaints from concerned groups who believe the substance could in fact be harmful to […]
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Anti-Fluoridation Worldwide – Update
Dear All, While this battle at times seems overwhelming, it is useful to take stock how far we have come over the last few years. Michael (webmaster for the Fluoride Action Network webpage http://www.fluoridealert.org) has been reviewing recent fluoridation campaign activities around the world and prepared the following list of events. With so much going […]
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Israeli Court: Fluoride in water is not compulsory
The High Court of Justice has issued an interim order freezing regulations that compel large towns to add fluoride to their water supplies. The order, issued Tuesday by Justice Eliezer Rivlin, will remain in force for three months until the Court has debated a petition by the Union of Local Authorities, Herzliya council and the […]
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Methuen’s Board of Health rescinds vote for fluoridation
METHUEN — Three weeks after a controversial Board of Health vote to fluoridate the town’s drinking water — a vote that cost the health director his job and one board member her post — a new board reversed the decision last night. The 20 or so people who filled the small, second-floor conference room of […]
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Safe drinking water initiative qualifies for City of Watsonville ballot
The City Clerk of Watsonville has notified the circulators of the Safe Drinking Water Product Quality Control initiative that sufficient signatures have been validated to qualify for the City-wide ballot. The Watsonville Safe Drinking Water Initiative prohibits the addition of any substance to the public water supply for the purpose of treating people, rather than […]
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West Jordan considers challenging fluoridation
WEST JORDAN – Salt Lake County may get a city challenge to fluoride. City Council members made rumblings Tuesday about mounting a formal challenge to fluoridation of public water supplies – a move already taken by some Davis County cities. Salt Lake and Davis County voters approved fluoridation in November 2000. West Jordan City Councilman […]
United States, Utah