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Chemists may hold key to building a better toxin mousetrap
Featured on the cover of the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS), Sourav Saha’s specialized work to strip electrons from the toxic chemical known as fluoride is producing a variety of unique results. “I started out with the very basic premise of trying to find new ways to detect toxic fluoride in solutions,” said […]
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Support for dental education, not fluoride, is needed
I watched a Phoenix City Council subcommittee this month decide to spend $582,000 a year to keep adding fluoride to its tap water in an effort to reduce cavities. Scientific studies in the past few years make it clear that all of us are consuming too much fluoride. It’s in everything made with tap water […]
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Anti-fluoride vote turns some Pinellas dentists into political activists
The billboard that Palm Harbor dentist Oscar Menendez is planning to put up outside his office on U.S. 19 is as subtle as a root canal. On a background that, in a design mock-up, gleams like an exceptionally white set of teeth, it asks in bold red letters: “WANT FLUORIDE? GOOD LEADERSHIP?” The ad will […]
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South Shore: Health officials fear too much fluoride in public water is affecting children’s health
Fluoride is a mineral that helps prevent tooth decay. Water naturally contains fluoride but there are national and state guidelines that all suppliers need to conform to which requires adding more fluoride to public water. But now the U.S Department of Health and Human Services is thinking about lowering the required fluoride level in water […]
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Ormond Beach: Fluoride isn’t a menace; it’s improved public health
Ormond Beach has wisely decided to keep fluoride in its water supply. It decided to do so despite the efforts of a city commissioner who is convinced that fluoride could be a bad thing to add to drinking water. While it’s good to ask questions of government, the recent anti-fluoride efforts in Ormond Beach still […]
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Department of Defense Grant Funds UGA Research into Chemical Cleanup
GRIFFIN, Ga., Sept. 20 — The University of Georgia issued the following news release: Perfluorinated chemicals keep eggs from sticking to frying pans, protect furniture from spills and help firefighters fight blazes, but studies now show that some of these chemicals–particularly the ones used to fight fires–are also toxic to laboratory animals in varying amounts. […]
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Ormond leaders vote to keep fluoride in water
ORMOND BEACH –– Fluoride will stay in the city’s drinking water –– for now. Despite a more than hourlong presentation by City Commissioner Troy Kent, his colleagues chose to move ahead with the purchase of chemicals, including hydrofluorosilicic acid, otherwise known as fluoride, for the coming year’s water supply. The commission voted 4-1, with Kent […]
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Pendleton: Fluoride lacking in water
Local dentists say kids may need supplements The city of Pendleton doesn’t add fluoride to its water supply because it’s too costly. And though the state recommends cities larger than 10,000 people add the supplement, it has no funds to pay for it. Fluoride, a naturally occurring tooth-strengthening chemical, prevents tooth decay in children. Pendleton […]
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Queensland: Newman to water down fluoride rule
Smaller communities that have not yet fluoridated their water supplies will soon find it easier to apply for an exemption, the Newman government has confirmed. Shortly after Anna Bligh became Queensland premier in 2007, she announced a fluoride rollout in a bid to improve dental health and reduce tooth decay. The Water Fluoridation Act 2008 required water […]
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Bundaberg Regional Council won’t be adding fluoride
MEMBER for Burnett Stephen Bennett yesterday confirmed that Bundaberg Regional Council will not be forced to fluoridate the region’s water, despite being allocated $4.5 million towards it in the budget. Council water and wastewater spokesman Alan Bush, a long-time opponent of fluoridation, said he was initially concerned the State Government had back flipped on a […]
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