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Environmental groups petition EPA to retract fluoride pesticide tolerances on food
Two national environmental organizations, Environmental Working Group and Beyond Pesticides, joined today with the Fluoride Action Network in challenging the safety of new food tolerances issued by the EPA for the fluoride based pesticide, sulfuryl fluoride. This action marks growing concern among mainstream scientists and environmental organizations that total exposure to fluoride, from water, food, […]
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EPA Unions Call on Agency, Congress To Recognize Carcinogenicity of Fluoride
Unions representing Environmental Protection Agency employees and other public health professionals have asked Congress to impose a nationwide moratorium on drinking water flouridation programs and called on EPA to set a goal of reducing the amount of fluoride in drinking water based on evidence it is associated with cancer. The request, set forth in letters […]
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EPA unions call for moratorium on fluoride in drinking water
WASHINGTON –Eleven unions representing more than 7,000 workers at the Environmental Protection Agency are calling for a national moratorium on programs to add fluoride to drinking water, citing what they call a possible cancer risk. In a letter to EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson, the unions say the agency should act even before a committee of […]
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EPA unions call for halt to water fluoridation
A study that allegedly showed a link between fluoride in drinking water and bone cancer in male children has triggered a renewed call for a moratorium on fluoridation. Eleven unions representing about 7,000 of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s 12,000 unionized employees sent letters to a key congressional committee calling for the moratorium pending a […]
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EPA Unions Call for Nationwide Moratorium on Fluoridation
Eleven EPA employee unions representing over 7000 environmental and public health professionals of the Civil Service have called for a moratorium on drinking water fluoridation programs across the country, and have asked EPA management to recognize fluoride as posing a serious risk of causing cancer in people. The unions acted following revelations of an apparent […]
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ADA: Organizations that support community water fluoridation
COMPENDIUM National and International Organizations That Recognize the Public Health Benefits of Community Water Fluoridation for Preventing Dental Decay Academy of Dentistry International Academy of General Dentistry Academy for Sports Dentistry Alzheimer’s Association America’s Health Insurance Plans American Academy of Family Physicians American Academy of Nurse Practitioners American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology American […]
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Refiners unnecessarily put millions at risk
WASHINGTON – Some U.S. refineries are using an extremely hazardous chemical that threatens the health and safety of millions of people even though there is a cost-effective and less toxic alternative, a consumer advocacy group said Thursday. The Public Interest Research Group, an advocate of stronger environmental and consumer protection laws, is urging Congress to […]
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FAN calls on NIH to remove Harvard Professor from fluoride-cancer study
BURLINGTON VT – The Fluoride Action Network (FAN) has urged that a Harvard Professor be removed from a research group studying the association between fluoride and osteosarcoma because his objectivity and ethics are disputed and he has ties to a company that profits from fluoride. FAN also urges other steps be taken to ensure this […]
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Dentists Celebrate Fluoridation Where Children Suffer With Cavities
NEW YORK, July 26 /PRNewswire/ — While Chicago children suffer with dental pain, limousines delivered dignitaries to a large white tent, ringed with yellow shirted security guards, where dentists and others, on government payrolls, kicked off a four-day 60th birthday party for water fluoridation replete with ice sculptures, free duffle bags, food and specially made […]
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Is ADA impeding access to dental care?
There go the dentists again, not the public health dentists who support dental therapists and broader access to dental care, but the dentists in private practice represented by the American Dental Association (ADA), attempting to deny children with toothaches and rotting and infected teeth the care they need. This is the same old garbage they […]
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