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San Diego County Grand Jury Recommends Fluoridation
SAN DIEGO — The county grand jury recommended yesterday that local cities and water districts fluoridate their drinking water, saying the ever-controversial treatment is “safe and effective in reducing tooth cavities.” San Diego County is the most populous county in California with no fluoridation. The county lacks it even though a 1995 state law requires […]
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High fluoride level in water causes havoc in Assam areas
GEETA DEY is in her early thirties, but she looks like a woman in her mid-50s. Bed-ridden most of the time, she spends her days in pain and misery. A victim of fluoride poisoning, Geeta needs help from others even to perform her routine chores. She is not alone. Hundreds of others in Assam’s hill […]
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High-fluoride water takes toll in Assam District
GUWAHATI: Thousands of villagers have been affected, many of them crippled for life, by drinking water containing excessive levels of fluoride, in some parts of Assam’s Karbi Anglong district, a report said. The worst-affected area was in the Tekelanguin where every fourth person has been affected by the hydro-fluorosia affecting a population of nearly one […]
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Uranium hexafluoride: Impurities and characterization by mass spectrometry
Online May 8, 2011 Title: Pre Concentration of Impurities in Gaseous Uranium Fluoride and their Characterisation by Mass Spectrometry Excerpts: Introduction Uranium hexafluoride is a volatile compound, which is converted to reactor fuel after enrichment to about 3%. In order that the fuel functions efficiently, the amounts of certain impurities present should be kept within […]
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There’s something in the water
DESPITE a Europe wide ban on the use of fluoride in public water supplies, the Government is still convinced that fluoridation should continue as a means of preventing tooth decay. It was introduced here in 1963, and the Department of Health says dental decay rates have been reduced by 70% in the meantime. Over the […]
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Water Fluoridation Forum is Biased
THE high powered forum set up by Health Minister, Micheál Martin, to review the fluoridation of public water supplies is made up mainly of pro fluoridation people, it was claimed yesterday. Dentist Don McAuley, spokesman for the Fluoride Free Water Campaign, also said his group, which staged a protest march to the Dáil on May […]
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Greens Claim Review Group on Fluoride “a Whitewash”
THE setting up of an expert group to review fluoridation of public water supplies was described as a `whitewash’ by the Green Party yesterday. Health Minister Micheal Martin said the group will review research into fluoridation amid public concern about its possible impact on health and deliver recommendations. Although fluoridation has been credited with dramatically […]
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Fluoridation forum just a token gesture says Green Party Deputy
A decision by the Minister for Health to establish a forum on water fluoridation has created political controversy. Mr Martin announced yesterday a 20-member forum was being established to review the fluoridation of public pipedwater supplies. The forum will eventually invite submissions from the public. However, Green Party deputy Mr John Gormley TD, who is […]
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Martin announces expert forum to examine fluoridation of water
The Minister for Health has announced the establishment of an expert forum to examine the fluoridation of public water supplies and to make recommendations on its future use here. Ireland is the only country in Europe where fluoridation of public water supplies is mandatory and opponents say that there is growing evidence linking the chemical […]
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Floridation’s time has come in Cache Valley
What’s all the fuss about fluoridation? For a process that was embraced by the rest of the country 50 years ago, with no audible regrets, it’s stirring up a cauldron of controversy here in Utah. Opponents pin everything from hip fractures to cancer to brain damage on fluoride, but numerous studies since the 1950s reveal […]
United States, Utah