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Fluoridation Debate Surfaces in Philadelphia Suburbs
Though almost everyone agrees the compound prevents tooth decay, area water companies don’t add it to their systems. The American Dental Association endorses it. The American Medical Association endorses it. The Centers for Disease Control and the U.S. Public Health Service back it. The practice itself began in some parts of this country in 1945, […]
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NIDCR program announcement: Research on Fluorides to Improve Oral Health
This Program Announcement expires on July 31, 2004, unless reissued. RESEARCH ON FLUORIDES TO IMPROVE ORAL HEALTH Release Date: July 27, 2001 PA NUMBER: PA-01-121 National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (http://www.nidcr.nih.gov) THIS PA USES “MODULAR GRANT” AND “JUST-IN-TIME” CONCEPTS. MODULAR INSTRUCTIONS MUST BE USED FOR RESEARCH GRANT APPLICATIONS UP TO $250,000 PER YEAR. […]
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Sheep Herd Dies from Contamination at Phosphate Mine
CONDA — Between 150 and 160 sheep died last month after drinking from a spring containing lethal amounts of selenium, a waste product of the phosphate mining process. The sheep, which belonged to Alicia Dredge, were grazing a stretch of private land located downhill from a reclaimed phosphate mine northeast of Soda Springs. Wayne Cutler, […]
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Chairman of Irish Consumers Association Calls for End to Fluoridation
The following letter, published in the July 19 edition of the Irish Times, provides further support to the effort to ban water fluoridation in Ireland. The letter is from John Colgan, the Chairman of the Consumers’ Association of Ireland. According to Colgan: “[I]t is urgent that Government policy should now change to allow every consumer […]
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Radiation victims urged to file claims
WILLOWBROOK — Margaret Dennison was stonewalled before she even got started. But others with the same concerns weren’t. Dennison, of Plainfield, was upset officials would not let her read a statement at a public information session set up Wednesday night to offer claim forms for those who may be eligible for federal compensation because they, […]
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Watsonville city council votes to fluoridate
The Watsonville City Council voted “yes” on water fluoridation in a special meeting Tuesday night. The vote was 5 to 2. City Council members Betty Bobeda and Judy Doering-Nielsen were the only ones to say “no” to fluoridation, both expressing that there was still research that needed to be done on the issue and there […]
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Oregon Mandatory Fluoridation Bill Officially Defeated
Please forward appropriately to friends and colleagues… To Oregon Safe Drinking Water Advocates, Finally, the 2001 legislature has closed, and, with it, the immediate threat of statewide mandatory fluoridation comes to an end. Please congratulate yourselves on our accomplishment. Looking back, SB 99 had tremendous momentum, and its passage was seemingly a fait accompli: July […]
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Irish Fluoridation Forum Not Fairly Balanced
I went before The Forum on Fluoridation a few weeks back. It was held in the boardroom of the very impressive new dental hospital in TCD. This rather formal setting was a bit intimidating although, to be fair, the Chairman and each of the 12 members present on the day were nothing if not relaxed […]
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Nolan calls for immedaite ban on water flouridation
Cllr Peggy Nolan wants an immediate ban on the flouridation of drinking water in Ireland. She states that we shouldn’t have to wait until the forum on flouridation concludes in September. “At present Ireland stands alone in Europe as the only country to insist under law that drinking water contains fluoride,” she points out. “Seventy […]
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Protected drinking water supply evades Lingagudem
JAGGAIAHPET (KRISHNA): Lingagudem, a minor panchayat in Penuganchiprolu mandal under Jaggaiahpet assembly constituency, is a village of sufferers as over 70 per cent of the 1,200 people in the village are affected by arthritis or rickets, thanks to the high percentage of fluoride in the drinking water. People of this sleepy village have been drinking […]
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