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ALERT: Avoid Feeding Babies Fluoridated Water
New York – April 5, 2005 – Infant formulas prepared with fluoridated water increase dental fluorosis risk, according to the April 2004 Journal of the American College of Nutrition(1) and other studies. To prevent this tooth staining, researchers caution against mixing infant formulas with fluoridated water. Fluorosis, white-spotted, yellow or brown stained, sometimes pitted or […]
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Groups challenge EPA’s approval of Dow’s Sulfuryl fluoride
On March 22, 2004, the Fluoride Action Network (FAN) formally challenged US EPA’s approval of Sulfuryl fluoride for use as a fumigant on a wide variety of foods. EPA identified fluoride as the major toxicological endpoint of concern for exposure to Sulfuryl fluoride. In its Risk Assessment, which served as the basis for approval, EPA […]
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Groups: Chemical should be phased out
Several environmental groups called Tuesday for Exxon Mobil Corp.’s Chalmette Refining plant to phase out the use of hydrofluoric acid, a corrosive chemical used to produce high-octane gasoline, in favor of alternative methods the groups said would be safer for the surrounding community. The Chalmette plant uses 2.4 million pounds of the chemical in one […]
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States with Least Fluoridation have Lowest Tooth Loss
THURSDAY, Dec. 18 (HealthDayNews) — The image of a grinning grandma without any teeth is becoming a thing of the past. A growing number of older Americans still have their teeth, according to new research released Thursday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The first state-by-state analysis of “tooth retention” found […]
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Tooth Study Won’t Prompt Smiles in Appalachia
ATLANTA (Reuters) – There was nothing for the older folk of Appalachia to smile about on Thursday in the government’s latest study of toothlessness among the elderly, which found the poverty-stricken region leading the nation in tooth loss. Kentucky and West Virginia have the highest percentage of older adults missing all their natural teeth according […]
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CDC sniffs out Scotchgard
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is considering including the active ingredient in 3M Co.’s newly reformulated Scotchgard in a study of chemicals suspected of having health effects. The CDC started publishing its “National Exposure Report” in 2001. The third report is due out in January 2005. The last report tracked 116 chemicals. It […]
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Drug Companies and Government Medical Research
BETHESDA, Md. – “Subject No. 4” died at 1:44 a.m. on June 14, 1999, in the immense federal research clinic of the National Institutes of Health. The cause of death was clear: a complication from an experimental treatment for kidney inflammation using a drug made by a German company, Schering AG. Among the first to […]
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Subverting U.S. Health
In 1955, reporter Edward R. Murrow asked Dr. Jonas Salk who owned the patent on the polio vaccine that Salk had invented. “Well, the people,” a puzzled Salk responded. “There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?” Dr. Salk’s professional life was as far removed from that of today’s researchers at the National Institutes […]
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Dr. John Lee
Dear All, I have to share the very sad news that Dr. John Lee, a very important voice on fluoridation and other health issues, has passed away. I received the news as I was about to board a plane, on route to Palo Alto, one of the many communities in California (and beyond) which he […]
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Oil Refineries Pose Avoidable Risk To More Than 15 Million In U.S.
Washington, DC – Oil refineries put more than 15 million people across the United States at needless and avoidable risk of injury or death in the event of an accident or deliberate attack, according to a new report released today by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group. The report, Needless Risk: Oil Refineries And Hazard […]
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