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High radium level found under Inverness Middle School
INVERNESS – Soil beneath Inverness Middle School has higher than normal levels of a radioactive element called radium, which caused the high levels of the cancer-causing gas found in the school last summer, recent tests show. The tests of soil taken from just under the school’s floor revealedlevels of radium as high as three times […]
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Ordinance would require radon gas safeguards
INVERNESS – New buildings along U.S. 41 and State Road 200 would be covered by proposed regulations designed to protect residents from cancer-causing radon gas. The area that would be included in the ordinance includes about 32,000 acres – or 7 percent of the land in Citrus County, according to federal soil scientist Paul Pilny. […]
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Give notice of the radon risk
A funny thing happened while a citizens’ committee was drafting recommendations to the Legislature on how Florida should deal with the public heath hazard caused by radon gas. Suddenly, the powerful phosphate, home building and real estate industries not only agreed to propose a state building code to prevent cancer-causing radon from invading homes; they […]
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Citizens of Brazil’s Valley of Death breathing easier after two years of cleanup
CUBATAO, Brazil – People are breathing cleaner air in this industrial city, long considered one of the world’s most polluted and known in Brazil as the Valley of Death. The United Nations-affiliated World Health Organization and local ecological groups say that a $500-million government cleanup program has produced substantial improvements in pollution levels in Cubatao, […]
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Nader Says EPA Underestimates Water Intake
WASHINGTON – The Environmental Protection Agency has set drinking water contamination standards that underestimate how much water some people drink, according to consumer activist Ralph Nader and an agency employees union. “This policy needs to be re-evaluated,” Nader said in a letter to EPA Administrator Lee M. Thomas released Saturday. Nader said EPA has set […]
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Mystery cloud leads to search of records
TAMPA – State environmental officials Friday began searching through records of a phosphate company and interviewing Polk County residents who said they became ill after breathing fumes from a mile-long gas cloud. State officials said US Agri-Chemical company near Fort Meade may be responsible for causing the gas cloud Wednesday over parts of Polk and […]
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The Science and Politics of Fluoride
Dental and medical groups have been battling anti-fluoridationists since the first dose of fluoride was metered into the water of Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1945. For decades, it seemed that dentistry was winning those battles – that science was prevailing over the rhetoric of the antifluoridationists. Today the battle lines are not so clearly drawn. […]
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Vikane: Exterminator, 2 Employes Indicted in 2 Va. Deaths
Note from FAN: Vikane is Sulfuryl Fluoride, it’s molecular structure is: The Orkin Exterminating Co. Inc. and two of its employes were indicted today on two counts each of involuntary manslaughter in the deaths of a Southwest Virginia couple allegedly poisoned by a fumigant sprayed at their house, the Grayson County, Va., prosecutor said. A […]
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Water Fluoridation Challenged
Fluoridation of water, long credited with the large decline in tooth decay in much of the world during recent decades, might actually have played only a minor role, an Australian public health researcher has concluded after reviewing many previous studies. However, an official of the American Dental Association challenged the interpretation, asserting that many studies […]
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Phosphate, cattle deaths link explored
Normally, George Elder’s Brahman calves are worth $500 at birth. And during some 30 years he has lost only one calf at birth. This year, however, three calves have died shortly after birth and another three have been born almost too weak to nurse. Preliminary autopsy reports from a state lab indicate a combination of […]
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