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Watsonville: State fines Watsonville $200 a day for ignoring fluoride order
State public health officials have stepped up the pressure on the city to fluoridate the public water supply, fining Watsonville $200 a day for failing to commit to the project. The fine, suspended until Sept. 30, was included in a citation issued by the state Department of Public Health on Wednesday for failing to meet […]
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Study Links Fluoride to Pre-term Birth and Anemia in Pregnancy
NEW YORK, Sept. 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Fluoride avoidance reduced anemia in pregnant women, decreased pre-term births and enhanced babies’ birth-weight, concludes leading fluoride expert, AK Susheela and colleagues, in a study published in Current Science (May 2010). http://www.fluorideandfluorosis.com/Anemia/Current%20Science%20Reprint.pdf Susheela’s team explains that anemia in pregnancy, which can lead to maternal and infant mortality, continues to […]
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Minnesota: New Health Assessment on PFCs, public comments due October 12, 2010
This report was prepared by: Minnesota Department of Health Under Cooperative Agreement with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry THE ATSDR PUBLIC HEALTH ASSESSMENT: A NOTE OF EXPLANATION This Public Health Assessment-Public Comment Release was prepared by ATSDR pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and […]
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Crescent City: County Voices Objection to City-only Vote on Fluoridation
An initiative to take fluoride out of Crescent City’s water system is on the November ballot — but the Del Norte County Board of Supervisors has lodged a formal objection to the vote. In a letter to City Manager Rod Butler, Supervisor Martha McClure said the board is concerned the majority of users affected by […]
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Study shows fluoride may not help teeth at al
Fluoridation of public water supplies offers no meaningful health benefit, according to a new study comparing cavity rates in two different Ontario provinces. “Fluoridation is no longer effective,” said Hardy Limeback, head of the University of Toronto’s preventive dentistry program. Considering all the dangerous effects of fluoride consumption, in fact, he concluded that fluoridation is […]
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Warwick to have fluoridated water
WHETHER you think it’s mass medication without consultation or necessary for healthy teeth, the countdown to fluoridation is on, with water in Stanthorpe and Warwick due to be treated by December 31. The Daily News reported last month that Allora and Killarney water will not be fluoridated because they have populations less than 1000. However, […]
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Minnesota. Report: Residents exposed to PFCs unlikely to get sick
Note from FAN: The report is titled Public Health Assessment. Perfluorochemical contamination in southern Washington County, northern Dakota County, and southeast Ramsey County. The deadline for public comments is October 12, 2010. St. Paul, Minn. — The Minnesota Department of Health says it’s unlikely that people in the east metro who have been exposed to […]
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Watsonville misses state deadline for fluoride answer but committee recommends going ahead with contract to pay for fluoridation
WATSONVILLE — A City Council committee is recommending Watsonville move forward with a contract to pay for fluoridation of the public water supply. The 2-1 decision by the committee came Monday, a day after a deadline set by the state Department of Public Health for the city to commit to fluoridating its water. The contract […]
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Edgewood: Water monitor who faked test results gets probation
A former city employee in the eastern Iowa town of Edgewood has been sentenced to probation, after he admitted that he failed to test the town’s water supply and submitted false reports to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. Scott John Harris must serve two years of probation, work 100 hours of community service and […]
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Southampton: Crucial High Court hearings are put back until January
No decision on the fluoridation of water in Hampshire can be taken until next year because a legal bid to block it has been delayed again, the Daily Echo can reveal. High Court hearings challenging the way health bosses gave the controversial plans for Southampton and the surrounding area the green light have been put […]
United Kingdom, England