Note from Fluoride Action Network This abstract makes no mention of the severe neurotoxicity of sulfuryl fluoride, which we learned from Dow’s animal studies (search Brain here). This fumigant is used to fumigate post-harvest food (in the U.S. and Australia), structures, and pest infestations. Sulfuryl fluoride should be banned and safer methods are needed to […]
Erik C. Baptist, partner in Wiley Rein’s Environment & Product Regulation Practice, was quoted in an Inside EPA story on January 13 regarding a lawsuit challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) denial of a Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) citizen petition seeking to ban drinking water fluoridation. As reported by Inside EPA, the plaintiffs overcame […]
Colgate’s Smile for Good toothpaste has been certified by the Vegan Society. Photograph: Colgate Palmolive Colgate has launched a new toothpaste which is being billed as the first of a kind because it comes in a recyclable tube. Toothpaste tubes have traditionally been impossible to recycle because they are made from a mixture of […]
Highlights All assays were performed using gas scrubber effluent from the production of fertilizer industry. Carbon nanotube was anchored onto chitosan sponge and used like adsorbent. The adsorption capacity for fluoride reach around 975.4 mg g-1 in kinetic assays. Reuse and regeneration were investigated and 5 cycles were obtained. The adsorption capacity kept similar values […]
Highlights Groundwater fluoride documented (n= 1365) in Malawi groundwater at EARS periphery Fluoride >6 mg/l at 3.4% occurrence, less than EARS elsewhere, but locally significant Geological control: Excessive >6 mg/l fluoride only occurs in hot springs >32 °C Hydrochemical control: fluorite control, calcium, pH and temperature sensitivity Troublesome >1.5–6 mg/l fluoride of diffuse occurrence a key management challenge Abstract Countries […]
Grand Rapids, Michigan became the first US city to fluoridate its public water supply in 1945. Five years later, when the schoolchildren of Grand Rapids were found to have significantly fewer cavities than children from surrounding communities, other Michigan cities also began fluoridating and soon achieved similar results. Within a few years, cities and towns […]
LANSING, Mich. (WLUC) – The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) announced today that 51 water systems have been awarded a Water Fluoridation Quality Award from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The award recognizes those communities that maintained a consistent level of optimally fluoridated water throughout 2018. A total of […]
Seventy-five years ago, dentists convinced government officials to experiment on every Grand Rapids, Michigan, resident without individual informed-consent to prove that (not if) dosing the municipal water supply with untested sodium-fluoride chemicals would decay-proof children’s developing teeth. Planned to last 15 years, the 1945 study ended prematurely after 6 ½ years. Teeth of most children […]
Event for state and national leaders will commemorate 75th year of community water fluoridation The ADA National Fluoridation Advisory Committee is inviting dentists and others who promote the adoption and continuation of adding an optimal amount of fluoride to water to celebrate this year. The year 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of community water fluoridation […]
GUNNEDAH’S fluoridation project has come to a standstill due to a backlog of other state government projects. The fluoridation of the shire’s water was set to begin this year, but due to the severity of the state’s bushfire crisis, has been moved down NSW Health’s priority list. Gunnedah Shire Council voted to endorse NSW Health’s […]
