LYON TOWNSHIP, Mich – An Oakland County recycling company under scrutiny for allegedly releasing toxic smoke has been placed on a federal pollution list. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency named Continental Aluminum Inc. to its “significant violators list,” which can lead to daily fines of up to $27,500 and criminal charges for deliberate pollution, The […]
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West Maryland Cities Revisit Fluoride Issue
CUMBERLAND – Crime, taxes and schools are the usual campaign fodder in municipal elections, but in two Western Maryland cities the burning topic this spring is one long ago settled in most communities without debate: fluoride. Barring a last-minute court ruling, Cumberland voters are to decide May 16 whether to repeal a decade-old ban on […]
Gerber Introduces Non-Fluoride Toothpaste for Babies
Opponents of water fluoridation have brandished a new weapon: a fluoride-free baby tooth cleaner that the Gerber Products Co. markets as safe and gentle. Nashua resident Paul Harrington, president of New Hampshire Citizens for Health and Freedom, said Gerber was obviously concerned about a baby’s overexposure to fluoride. But a Manchester city health official said […]
TD calls for an end of water fluoridation
Independent TD Tom Gildea, is to press the Government to abandon the fluoridation of the country’s water supply. Gildea told The Sunday Tribune last week that he would be putting pressure on the government at behind-the-scenes meetings to scrap the fluoridation programme, which has been in place since the early 1960s. The compulsory inclusion of […]
Fluoride: A debate you can sink your teeth into
First, the dread. Then, you’re on your back in a big, padded chair, which would almost be cozy if not for the fact that there’s a hot light burning your face, your cheeks are stuffed with cotton, and a latex-gloved hand is poking around inside of your mouth. Most likely, anyone who has been to […]
Mexico: Chemical characteristics of the crater lakes of Popocatetetl, El Chichon, and Nevado de Toluca volcanoes
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Excerpts: Fluoride concentrations were determined also with an ion selective electrode, adding a TISAB solution for decomplexing and adjusting the ionic strength… The Nevado de Toluca crater lake… Lithium, boron and fluoride were below the detection limits… At El Chichon… Fluoride increased between 1983 and 1985 (0.16 mg/l in 1983 to 4.5 mg/l in 1985), […]
Japan: Acid alteration in the fumarolic environment of Usu volcano, Hokkaido
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Excerpts from article: We have particularly focused our attention on the mineralogy of fluorides and on the distribution of fluorine in the alteration products. Although fluorides have been reported in other studies of volcanic incrustations (Naboko, 1957; Stoiber and Rose, 1974; Naughton et al., 1976; Rosenberg Philip, 1988; Keith, 1991a,b; Papike, 1992; Serafimova, 1997), the […]
Coal Wastes and Fluoride
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These two messages in from Bob Carton and the very high levels of fluoride that can leach out of coal wastes. The information comes from sources inside the US EPA. ——————————————- Folks, This is another overlooked or covered-up area of fluoride exposure. Fluoride was found as high as 812 mg/l ( 203 times the standard […]
Debate turns to Hutts’ fluoride
The long-running controversy over whether Petone gets an unfluoridated water supply is threatening to reignite a much wider debate. An indication of how divisive it could become was given at Wednesday nights special meeting of Hutt City Council, which agreed to a deal with Wellington Regional Council to share the estimated $400,000 cost of reinstating […]
San Diego City Council Defies Citizens Initiative: Votes to Fluoridate
On April 11, 2000 San Diego City Council voted 8 to 1 to defy the long-standing city ordinance that specifically prohibits the City of San Diego or any of its employees or elected officials from adding any fluoride compound to the drinking water. Citing a February 18 opinion by California Attorney General Bill Lockyer and […]