A nation-wide shortage of fluoride mouth rinse means Nova Scotia’s school-based fluoride program will be skipping a year. “It’s unfortunate that we’re faced with this unforeseen shortage, but this gives us the chance to readjust our delivery model in a way that will improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the program,” said Catherine Hebb, a […]
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No fluoride program in schools this year due to shortage
The authority will be using this year to plan for a transition from using rinse to using varnish The Nova Scotia Health Authority will not offer a fluoride program in schools this year as it transitions from one form of treatment to another. The NSHA planned to use a fluoride mouth rinse for the last […]
No fluoride in drinking water for many Edmonton residents during system updates
Epcor has temporarily stopped adding fluoride to water while it upgrades the E.L. Smith Water Treatment Plant. The fluoride interruption is expected to last seven months, until March 2020. During that time, Epcor will be replacing four bulk fluoride storage tanks that are approximately 20 years old. “The reason why it’s taking seven months is […]
IMPORTANT NEW SCIENCE: Why the Alberta Medical Association should not ignore anti-fluoride research
Dr. Bob Dickson, founder of Safe Water Calgary, wrote to Dr. Clarke, President of the Alberta Medical Association, inviting her and others to consider looking deeper into the science of water fluoridation. RE: IMPORTANT NEW SCIENCE Dear Dr. Clarke: In your June 19, 2019, submission to the City of Calgary [*] on behalf of the […]
Canadian Mother-Offspring IQ Study: MedPage Today – interview with lead author.
Video interview with Rivka Green, lead author of the new Canadian IQ study https://www.facebook.com/MedPageToday/videos/2396767130414029/ An archived video of the September 17, 2019, interview with Rivka Green. JAMA Pediatrics published the second U.S. Government-funded Mother-Offspring fluoride study on August 19, 2019. Both studies (the first was Bashash et al. 2017) reported that certain levels of fluoride […]
Evaluation of human biomonitoring data in a health risk based context: An updated analysis of population level data from the Canadian Health Measures Survey.
Abstract In order to characterize exposure of the Canadian population to environmental chemicals, a human biomonitoring component has been included in the Canadian Health Measures Survey (CHMS). This nationally-representative survey, launched in 2007 by the Government of Canada, has measured over 250 chemicals in approximately 30,000 Canadians during the last decade. The capacity to interpret […]
Canadian Mother-Offspring IQ Study: Buzz Feed News
Fluoride Conspiracy Theorists Have Made It Hard For Researchers To Study Its Actual Harms “It’s like having a scarlet ‘AF’ letter on you,” one researcher who studies fluoride said. Conspiracy theorists have railed for seven decades against fluoride, suggesting that water fluoridation was a government mind-control trick or communist plot. Now, an August study published […]
Fluoride to come out of Spruce Grove, Stony Plain water
Upgrades to EPCOR’s E.L. Smith Water Treatment Plant will take fluoride out of area water. The company announced Sept. 3 that Spruce Grove, Stony Plain, parts of Edmonton, Onoway and other surrounding communities will see fluoride reduced or eliminated in water supply until March 2020. Fluoride is a naturally occurring mineral that prevents tooth decay […]
Canadian Mother-Offspring IQ Study: The Epoch Times
New Study Suggests Fluoride Lowers Children’s IQ By Jefferey Jaxen Fears of fluoride in drinking water can no longer be dismissed as a crank conspiracy theory The research continues to accumulate: Fluoride exposure harms the brain and reduces IQ. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention considers community water fluoridation one of the ten greatest public health […]
Letter: Not just one study
1938 was the year that the heavily polluting aluminum producers began negating studies and burying science that showed severe harm and damage from fluoride emitted from their waste stacks. This set the precedent for the fertilizer industry to convince doctors and dentists, through clever PR campaigns, that hydrofluosilicic acid scrubbed from their industrial waste stacks, […]