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Pensacola: Fluoride fight again comes to ECUA races
Emerald Coast Utilities Authority members Lois Benson and Dale Perkins, both Republicans who favor keeping fluoride in the water, defeated primary challengers the who wanted to remove the chemical. Now fluoride’s back on the campaign trail. Engineer Dave Carlson is challenging Benson in the District 2 race. Homebuilder Scott Schroeder is running against Perkins in […]
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Overview of Chinese Hydrofluoric Acid Market
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “China Hydrofluoric Acid Industry Report, 2009-2010” report to their offering. At present, fluorite and sulfuric acid are the main reactants to produce hydrofluoric acid, and more than half of the worlds fluorite reserves are for the production of hydrofluoric acid. The proven reserves of fluorite in […]
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Andover: Bad mix forces evacuation of Andover water treatment plant
The Andover city water supply is in no danger after a contractor mistakenly mixed the wrong chemicals together, according to a city official. David Berkowitz, Andover’s public works superintendent, said a contractor put a fluoride chemical into a tank that contained sodium hypochlorite, which caused a chemical reaction. The presence of hazardous fumes meant the […]
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San Antonio: In public health, fluoride is a big leveler
You would expect a bunch of dentists to wring their hands over the decision last week by the Bexar Metropolitan Water District board to stop adding fluoride to its water. But the ones I visited with Monday have a special interest. They’re the dentists who see patients in the city public-health clinic that’s primarily dedicated […]
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Major IT Vendors Violated Labor Laws
Federal auditors identified three information technology contractors that each racked up more than $90,000 in fines for violating health or wage regulations, as part of an investigation of 15 suppliers with prior offenses that received awards totaling more than $6 billion in 2009. A Government Accountability Office review of previous labor violations by federal contractors, […]
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Health Ministry: Fluoride levels in Israeli drinking water are insufficient
The level of fluoride added to drinking water in Israel is inadequate, according to a Health Ministry report released on Monday. n 67 percent of tests performed by the ministry’s Department for Environmental Health, water fluoridation levels were insufficient to prevent tooth decay. However, excessively high levels of fluoride were found in drinking water in […]
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Mount Morgan: Instalation of fluoridation equipment worth $1.3 million
Fitzroy River Water is installing fluoridation equipment worth $1.3 million at the Mount Morgan and Woodbury Water Treatment Plants. This will help meet the State Government’s requirement of adding fluoride to the water supply of Mount Morgan and the Capricorn Coast by December 31. Rockhampton Regional Council Mayor Brad Carter said the $1.3M total project […]
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San Antonio: Editorial against vote by the Bexar Metropolitan Water District to stop fluoridation
Note from FAN: The population of San Antonio was estimated at 1,144,646 in the 2000 census. According to the the Bexar Metropolitan Water District: BexarMet “was established by the Texas Legislature in 1945 and currently serves approximately 91,000 connections in Atascosa, Bexar, Comal and Medina counties. BexarMet is unique among water utilities in that the […]
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Watsonville: No surprise regarding Tuesday’s City Council vote
If John Martinelli, CEO of S. Martinelli & Co., had been allowed to properly finish his statements Tuesday night, many of you wouldn’t be finding out about this now. That fine the city feared the state managing to enforce on Watsonville, $200 a day for not fluoridating, is just about the amount of money the […]
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Tamworth: Online group set up in water fluoride fight
CLAIMS that too much fluoride in the water supply could leave Tamworth people with weak bones have been ignored by councillors. At a meeting of the health and wellbeing scrutiny committee this week, members were called upon to review the issue but returned a majority vote against it. The plea came from Councillor Chris Cooke, […]
United Kingdom, England