Note from Fluoride Action Network: We classified this article as misinformation as it is a one-sided look at this issue, taking the claims of fluoridation promoters at face value. This article presents no discussion of the neurotoxicity of fluoride at levels added to drinking water in fluoridation schemes (Green et al., 2019 and Till et […]
Heads are yet to roll at Wellington Water, despite a damning report revealing water in the region hasn’t been fluoridated properly for six years. There has, however, been a new appointment to the water company’s board, after it was found none of the directors had practical or leadership experience in water services. A review was […]
Dave Armstrong is a playwright and satirist based in Wellington. OPINION: Oh dear. I get up, and it’s cold, raining and the leaves and litter in the street have blocked the drains. I do my civic duty with a broom handle and clear them, tripping on the uncollected recycled bottles put out the morning before. […]
INDIA: A new plant manufacturing the low GWP HFO refrigerant 1233zd [1-Chloro-3,3,3-trifluoropropene] has commenced production in Dahej, Gujarat. The factory, a deal between Honeywell and Indian chemical company Navin Fluorine, was officially opened today by Shri Bhupendrabhai Patel, chief minister of Gujarat. Marketed by Honeywell as Solstice zd, HFO1233zd has various applications, including blowing agents […]
Fluoride stopped being added to water at the Rye Lake Pump Station on July 7, affecting customers in Rye, Rye Brook and Port Chester. RYE, NY — Supply chain issues are being blamed for an unexpected, but temporary change in our drinking water. On Tuesday afternoon, Veolia Water New York announced that due to supply […]
Note from Fluoride Action Network: FIPRONIL: For more information see here and here. The structural formula for Fipronil is: LUFENURON: See here. The structural formula for Lufenuron is: TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A variety of mushrooms imported from China have been rejected at Taiwan’s borders after they were found to contain pesticide residues beyond […]
DuPont’s Washington Works plant in Parkersburg, West Virginia. (Maddie McGarvey/for the Washington Post) If Wilbur Earl Tennant’s cows hadn’t died from a mysterious wasting disease during the 1990s, the world might have never learned about the secret history of toxic forever chemicals. Tennant was a West Virginia farmer whose family owned land near a DuPont […]
South Wairarapa District Council [SWDC] declined to comment on Wellington Water’s [WW] inquiry into the fluoridation failure in Wellington because it has never fluoridated its own water. WW chair Lynda Carroll apologised for the company’s failure, saying WW had a responsibility to put fluoride into the water, and it did not do it consistently. “When […]
A Dunedin dentist is refusing to re-sign what he calls an “utterly onerous and loss-making” government contract to provide free dental healthcare to children, and others are calling for it to be rewritten. Three-year Dental Benefits contracts were due to be re-signed earlier this month, but many dentists are holding out. One Dunedin dentist, who […]
Regional Public Health (RPH) was aware Wellington’s water wasn’t being fluoridated properly since 2016, but the regulator did not raise any concerns. An independent inquiry, made public last week, reveals the extent of the region’s fluoride failure stretches back many years and across several organisations. Wellington’s tamariki will likely bear the consequences, with one doctor […]
