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Answer to dry zone drinking water woes
Institute of Fundamental Studies (IFS) scientist J P Padmasiri and engineer W M Jayawardhana have successfully designed a water purification unit which can reduce excess thickness and fluoride in drinking water in the dry zone. This new unit will be useful to clean and purify drinking water in the dry zone, specially the North Central […]
Sri Lanka -
Bantwal: Fluorine gas cylinder in water purification unit explodes – at least five injured
At least five people including fire personnel were critically injured after a fluorine gas cylinder exploded in the municipal water purification unit at Jakribettu here on Monday March 5. The intensity of the fluorine vapour was such that several had to be hospitalised. Fire personnel were called from Bantwal and Mangalore, and during the rescue […]
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Myerstown Water Authority first to stop fluoridation
Just over 67 years ago, Grand Rapids, Mich., became the first city in the world to adjust the fluoride in its water supply. Scientists had determined that fluoride could be used to reduce tooth decay, and many communities followed Grand Rapids’ lead, including the borough of Myerstown. Although he wasn’t sure of the exact date, […]
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Aspen: Poison in the water
As both a research epidemiologist and dentist, I have studied fluoride‘s dental and systemic effects for more than 10 years. I used to live and practice in Basalt years ago. I take exception to Dr. David Swersky’s recent letter titled “The facts support fluoride in water” (Feb. 29, The Aspen Times). General dentists without academic […]
United States, Colorado -
ADA: “we still do not know how much fluoride is required to prevent caries”
The goal of this project is to establish the minimum concentration of fluoride needed to prevent enamel and root caries. The lack of knowledge about “the target concentration of fluoride required in the oral environment to optimize its potential for caries prevention” has inspired the NIDCR to issue a call for research to answer this […]
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New Jersey pharmacy mistakenly gives kids breast cancer medication instead of fluoride pills
TRENTON, N.J. — The state attorney general’s office has begun a preliminary investigation into a CVS pharmacy’s mistaken distribution of pills for the treatment of breast cancer to children instead of the fluoride pills that were prescribed. The attorney general’s consumer affairs division on Friday ordered a CVS pharmacy in Chatham to explain the mistake […]
United States, New Jersey -
New Mexico: Governor signs bill clarifying tax break for uranium enrichment plant
SANTA FE, N.M. — Gov. Susana Martinez has signed legislation to clarify a tax break New Mexico provides for a uranium enrichment plant in southeastern New Mexico. The change in law will ensure that the plant’s utility customers won’t be taxed if they sell a uranium compound before it is enriched. Utilities send uranium hexafluoride […]
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In New Jersey, a battle over a fluoridation bill, and the facts
For all its renown as an engine of pharmaceutical and biotechnology progress, New Jersey has long lagged in what public health officials call one of the 10 biggest health advances of the last century: fluoridating its water. While 72 percent of Americans get their water from public systems that add fluoride, just 14 percent of […]
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Philomath City Manager Kugler defends actions
Philomath City Manager Randy Kugler has issued a formal defense of the city’s actions in publishing anti-fluoride information in its September newsletter. Kugler was responding to a series of 11 questions from Alana Cox, a compliance specialist with the Oregon Elections Division. Cox is investigating a complaint filed by Citizens for Healthy Teeth, a political […]
United States, Oregon -
Simple ways to detect arsenic and fluoride contamination in water
THERE is a ray of hope for millions of people in the country who are forced to drink water contaminated with high levels of arsenic and fluoride. Scientists in two different experiments have devised effective screening techniques to identify arsenic and fluoride in groundwater. While one relies on the colour of the tubewell platform to […]
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