Lead levels in town water have decreased significantly since town officials stopped adding fluoride, commissioners reported at Wednesday’s meeting. They also voted to officially ban fluoridation. Fluoride itself does not produce high lead levels, but fluoride must be introduced along with fluorosilicic acid, and town officials believe that the acid washes lead from pipe soldering, […]
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Mentally retarded children given fluoride before legal
The state Department of Public Health fluoridated the water at the Wrentham and Belchertown state schools for the mentally retarded in 1947 – four years before a US public health recommendation and a state law allowing local communities to fluoridate. In the wake of other experiments at the state schools that apparently were conducted without […]
A Comparison of the Australia Group List of Chemical Weapon Precursors and the CWC Schedules of Chemicals
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Excerpts (see full Bulletin): At first glance, the list of 54 individual chemicals in the table on page 3, the Australia Group List (AGL), looks rather different from the schedules of chemicals set out in the Annex on Chemicals of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), where the different schedules contain both chemical-warfare agents and precursors, […]
Kelly seeks ban on fluoride supplement
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 […]
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 […]