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Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corporation fined for shipping potassium fluoride to Taiwan without export license
On December 28, 2001, the Commerce Department imposed a $210,000 civil penalty on Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corporation of Houston, Texas, to settle charges that it illegally exported sensitive items without Department of Commerce authorization. The agreement settled allegations that, between February 1996 and March 1999, Kaiser made 12 shipments of potassium fluoride to Jamaica […]
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Athens fights fluoride plan
ATHENS, Ohio — Think the controversy about adding fluoride to tap water is as dated as the Cold War? Think again. A plan to fluoridate the municipal water supply in Athens early next year has stirred public debate in this college town about 65 miles southeast of Columbus. Opponents have confronted the City Council with […]
United States, Ohio -
Harmed to the Teeth?
In Oregon, we don’t like sales taxes or self-serve gas, and we don’t like the government messing with our drinking water. The great fluoride fight of 2001 proved that sentiment once again, when legislators considered a bill to require all cities to fluoridate. The pro-fluoride side got nowhere in Salem and now finds itself on […]
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Risks of fluoride in infant formula suppressed
THE Government was last night accused of delaying a report into the effects of water fluoridation on bottle-fed babies. This is because there are fears the report would present a damaging view of fluoridation ahead of the release of a major study into the practice, Fine Gael Senator Avril Doyle claimed. Newborns who are fed […]
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Rajasthan May Turn Into People With Bent Backs
The problem of fluorosis in Rajasthan has aggrevated. All the districts in Rajasthan have villages affected with fluoride contamination in ground water. According to study conducted by voluntary organisation Health, Environment & Development Consortium, more than 8 million people are consuming water with high concentration of fluoride. People are becoming incapable of doing work also […]
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Fluorosis victims lament government indifference
KODAD:The problem of fluorosis may be severe in Gondriala village in Kodad mandal of Nalgonda district, but an estimated 1.5 lakh people in 35 other habitations in the area are no strangers to its ill-effects. Spread over the mandals of Kodad, Nadigudem, Munagala and Chilkur, these habitations have water with high fluoride content. This causes […]
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Fluorosis cripples Gondriala villagers
KODAD: Men in their prime youth need help of a stick to walk. Children, who should be playing around, cannot even walk. Life is a punishment for the 3,400 villagers of Gondriala in Kodad mandal of the backward Nalgonda district. The high-fluoride content in the drinking water has crippled most of them for life. More […]
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Excess Levels of Fluoride found in Some Irish Water Supplies
Polluted drinking water is an on-going scandal in this State. Despite European Union regulations and Government commitments, the quality of drinking water in public and group water schemes continues to worsen. A report by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has found that only 91 per cent of public-water supply samples tested last year, were safe, […]
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Small Ontario town turns tide on 40 Years of Fluoridation
On Wednesday, the small northern Ontario town of Cobalt voted overwhelmingly to become the first community in Canada’s largest province to turn back the clock on nearly four decades of public drinking water fluoridation in Ontario. “The turnout was disappointing,” said town councillor Vic Legault, who campaigned almost alone for 180 days to force a […]
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Cobalt Rejects Fluoridation
People in a small Northern Ontario community have voted overwhelmingly to stop adding fluoride to the town’s drinking water due to health concerns. Residents of Cobalt, a community of 1,250 people 135 kilometres northwest of North Bay, voted last Tuesday against fluoridation. The practice was rejected by 140 of the 159 people who cast a […]
Canada, Ontario