Fluoride supplements designed to prevent tooth decay in children should be taken off the market until they are proven safe and effective, an Essex County legislator said yesterday. At a press conference in Trenton, Assemblyman John Kelly (R-Essex) released a letter he has sent to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in Washington saying the […]
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Hawaii: Dispersion of gaseous volcanogenic fluoride, island of Hawaii
Abstract: Fluoride was measured in samples of lichen collected in 1990 from 68 sites on the island of Hawaii; in addition, fluoride levels were measured in 8 rainfall samples collected at the same time. The levels of fluoride in the lichens range from 6 to 332 ?g g?1, which are similar to the levels measured […]
Polk firm engineers new technology to capture HF
LAKELAND – Gases escaping from fertilizer company cooling ponds have been blamed for injuring orange trees and making cows teeth fall out after they eat tainted grass. But a Polk County company has invented a new way to recover a valuable commodity from the ponds, which DuPont says it is ready to buy. What’s more, […]
My Life as a Dump: Risking Life and Lung in the Toxic American Century
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THE BUSTER BROWN shoe store on Collinsville Avenue in East St. Louis had a wonderful machine where I would stand with my feet, in their shoes, inserted beneath an oblong box, like a low, enclosed lectern, called a Fluoroscope, which shot X-rays into my toes, gonads, liver and brain and let me see clearly what […]
Mexico’s futuristic Nightmare
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Excerpt – MATAMOROS, Mexico… There are reasons that political anger boiled up in Matamoros. It’s a maquiladora city, one of a string of Mexican border towns that offers cheap labor and lax environmental and working standards to an estimated 2,000 factories, mostly American, Canadian and Asian, in a largely tax-free zone. Under the North American […]
EPA Ordered to Reinstate Whistleblower
The Environmental Protection Agency has been ordered to reinstate a senior scientist and pay him $ 50,000 for emotional distress after he was fired allegedly for whistleblowing activities, his lawyer said Tuesday. The decision, involving William Marcus, a senior toxicologist in the EPA’s Office of Drinking Water, was made by a Labor Department administrative law […]
Fluoride linked to bone cancer
A New Jersey Department of Health study says there may be a link between drinking fluoridated water and increased incidence of bone cancer in young men. The state Health Department says the results are not strong enough to stop fluoridation of drinking water — the key ingredient in preventing dental cavities in children. But a […]
Rat Studies Link Brain Cell Damage With Aluminum and Fluoride in Water
ANAHEIM, Calif. – A team of New York scientists said rat studies offer preliminary evidence that aluminum, when administered in drinking water, may be linked with behavior changes and damaged brain cells. The study, presented at the meeting here of the Society for Neuroscience, is the latest of several studies hinting at some link between […]
Alaska’s Fluoridation Accidents: 1984-1992
WHERE THE WATER TURNED DEADLY FLUORIDE SYSTEM WASN’T THE ONLY THING TO FAIL IN HOOPER BAY Anchorage Daily News David Hulen September 22, 1992 Let’s say that you were very thirsty and wanted to drink a glass of water and the owner of the household wanted for you to help yourself. As you take their […]
Is Science Censored?
“Publicity … would certainly follow,” fretted the editor of one top journal. “A possible general panic,” predicted a researcher. Both were explaining why a study linking childhood leukemia to fluorescent lights should not be published. That fear trumped the conclusion of other reviewers-scientists who evaluate whether a manuscript should be published in a journal-who called […]