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Lake Cowichan: Is fluoridation the way to go?
The fluoridation of water in Lake Cowichan’s water supply should not continue, Town of Lake Cowichan councillor Tim McGonigle told council during their Tuesday, October 5 meeting. “Some say it’s more poisonous than arsenic and can has a negative impact on learning abilities in young children,” he said. “Although fluoride in the 50s and 60s […]
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Mount Gambier: Campaigner slams fluoride response
A long-time anti-fluoride campaigner from Warrnambool has called Health Minister John Hill’s refusal to face Mount Gambier residents at a public fluoride meeting tomorrow evening an “utter disgrace” and demanded the minister be “sacked”. Peter Hulin, a Warrnambool councillor and spokesperson for the Warrnambool Fluoride Action Group, said politicians had lost sight of the fact […]
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Arkema opening PVDF plant in China
COLOMBES, FRANCE (Oct. 8, 11:45 a.m. ET) — French materials firm Arkema Group will open a new polyvinylidene fluoride plant in China early next year, its first PVDF facility in Asia. The company will open the factory at its large manufacturing complex in Changshu, Jiangsu province, and said it is part of an effort to […]
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Fluoride Update: Even the Experts are Now Questioning its Safety
Here at the Daily Health we’ve been campaigning against the fluoridation of drinking water for years. Back in 2005, we told you about a number of studies linking fluoride to as many as 10,000 cancer deaths in the US every year, with a high incidence of bone cancer among men exposed to fluoride. More recently […]
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Parents Should be Warned: Fluoridated Water is Not Recommended for Infants
A new study confirms infants fed formula reconstituted with fluoridated water are at greater risk of developing discolored teeth (dental fluorosis). (1) The American Dental Association (ADA) warned dentists about this in 2006 but has done little or nothing to inform the nearly 200 million Americans who live in communities with fluoridated drinking water. The […]
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McMinnville City Council to hold fluoridation meeting on Nov 9, 2010
The McMinnville City Council has been asked to amend the City’s Charter that directs McMinnville Water and Light to fluoridate the City’s drinking water supply. In 1960, as the result of an initiative petition, the voters passed a measure that directed McMinnville Water and Light to fluoridate the City’s drinking water supply. On November 9, […]
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Waterloo: Leadership expected in fluoridation debate
If you worry about what they put in hot dogs, you don’t have to eat them. You don’t have to drink milk either, or eat Great Lakes fish, or consume sweets loaded with refined sugar and food colouring if you think those things are bad for you and your family. But tap water? Well, that’s […]
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Texas Rare Earth Resources Corp. lease on heavy rare earth deposit at Round Top Mountain
Excerpts: TYLER, Texas, October 6, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — Texas Rare Earth Resources Corp. (Pink Sheets: SDSR), formerly Standard Silver Corporation, announced today it has executed a 20 year lease (“Lease”) with the Texas General Land Office covering 860 acres at Round Top Mountain in Hudspeth County, Texas (“Round Top”). Additionally, Texas Rare Earth owns prospecting […]
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Hungarian sludge flood from the Ajkai Timfoldgyar Zrt aluminium plant near Ajka
Hungary yesterday declared a state of emergency in three of its 19 counties after the catastrophic release on Monday of at least 700,000 cubic metres of toxic sludge from a containment basin at the Ajkai Timfoldgyar Zrt aluminium plant near Ajka, around hundred kilometres southwest of Budapest. At least four people died and at least […]
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Fort Wayne requests mercury-free fluoridation chemical, but only if it isn’t intentionally added
In Fort Wayne’s Request for Proposal (RFP) for Fluorosilicic acid, the following was included: 17. MERCURY FREE SPECIFICATION BIDDERS MUST OFFER MERCURY-FREE ALTERNATIVES TO ALL PRODUCTS WHICH CONTAIN INTENTIONALLY ADDED MERCURY (MERCURY ADDED PRODUCTS) WHERE SUCH ALTERNATIVES EXIST. SHOULD SUCH ALTERNATIVES NOT BE AVAILABLE, BIDDERS MUST SUBMIT WITH THEIR RESPONSE A LIST OF PRODUCTS WITHOUT […]
United States, Indiana