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Sulfuryl fluoride: Australian government response to EPA’s proposed bar
Registration of sulfuryl fluoride as a fumigant in food storage and processing facilities in Australia The APVMA notes a recent decision by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (external site) to phase out the use of a fluoride-based fumigant (sulfuryl fluoride) in food storage and processing facilities. The decision was based on an analysis […]
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Sulfuryl fluoride: Dow AgroSciences says proposed phase out of food tolerances would hnder protection of the U.S. food supply
INDIANAPOLIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Dow AgroSciences is disappointed with EPA’s announcement of a proposal for a multi-year phase out of food tolerances for sulfuryl fluoride, a material important to the sustainability of the U.S. food supply. EPA’s proposed action offers no meaningful public health or environmental benefits and would actually detract from U.S. public health goals. EPA has […]
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Environmental Chemicals in Pregnant Women in the US: NHANES 2003-2004
Background: We analyzed biomonitoring data from the National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey (NHANES) to characterize both individual and multiple chemical exposures in U.S. pregnant women. Methods: We analyzed data for 163 chemical analytes in 12 chemical classes for subsamples of 268 pregnant women from NHANES 2003-2004, a nationally representative sample of the U.S. population. […]
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Re-Thinking Fluoride
Link to listen to this program is at http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.html?programID=11-P13-00002&segmentID=3 Chris Neurath from Fluoride Action Network pouring a glass of spring water at his home. (Photo: Bruce Gellerman) GELLERMAN: 66 years ago this month Grand Rapids Michigan became the first city in the world to add fluoride to its drinking water. Soon, studies confirmed what researchers […]
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EPA Acts On Fluoride
EPA proposed on Jan. 10 to phase out use of the pesticide sulfuryl fluoride on food because of concerns that children are being exposed to too much fluoride. The announcement came just days after the agency said that it is considering lowering the limit for fluoride in drinking water (C&EN Online Latest News, Jan. 10). […]
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Grand Rapids. Editorial: Why fluoride in water should be adjusted, not rejected
Freshly adjusted federal guidelines for fluoride levels in water hold special significance here. In 1945 Grand Rapids became the first city in the country to add fluoride to its municipal water system, a public health triumph quickly duplicated elsewhere. Today, more than two-thirds of public water systems use fluoridation to promote healthy teeth. The federal […]
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Calgary. How my pro-fluoride opinion got pulled out by the root
Back in September 1998 — just one month prior to the Calgary civic election and the last plebiscite on whether to continue adding fluoride to our water supply — I met with advocates on both sides of the debate. As I stated in a column then, there were the “experts,” like Calgary’s medical officer of […]
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Sulfuryl fluoride: EPA moves on fluoride draw warning from Sen. Inhofe
U.S. EPA’s bid to phase out a fluoride-based pesticide is sparking the first stirrings of a political battle, as Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) warned the agency yesterday that its move “could create unintended consequences for public health, food safety, and the economy.” EPA this week proposed a gradual ban on food with traces of sulfuryl […]
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Leading fluoride opponent Paul Connett says fluoridation makes no sense — at any level
Last week the federal government announced a plan to reduce the safe upper limit for fluoride in drinking water, to help protect children from the disfiguring marks or mottling of teeth that occurs with overexposure to the mineral. Fluoride has been added to public drinking supplies in the U.S. for decades, at the behest of […]
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Communities say they will use less fluoride in water after new levels are legally set
DOVER — The federal Department of Health and Human Services has recommended lower fluoride levels in drinking water supplies, but a number of area community officials said they will wait until the new levels are legally set before adhering to the new guidelines. The federal DHHS recently announced it will recommend the Environmental Protection Agency […]
United States, New Hampshire