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Rous says yes to fluoride
Rous County Council Chairman Col Sullivan used his casting vote so Rous Water could clear the final hurdles to building four fluoride dosing plants. At the meeting last week, Rous voted 4/4 (Crs Patrick Morrisey, Vanessa Ekins, Richard Staples, Keith Johnson against; Phil Silver, Stuart George, David Yarnall, Col Sullivan for) to approve the Review […]
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Minnesota: Study examines link between PFCs in water supply and people
St. Paul, Minn. — The Minnesota Department of Health says contamination in the drinking water of east metro residents only partly explains the levels of PFCs in their blood. PFCs leaking from landfills reached water supplies in Oakdale, Lake Elmo, and Cottage Grove. Residents were found to have higher PFC levels in their blood than […]
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Military bases’ water supply overloaded with fluoride
Elmendorf Air Force Base and Fort Richardson are warning people who live and work on or visit the two posts in Anchorage not to drink the water due to excess fluoride in the supply today. The fluoride problem was discovered at about 4 a.m. today at the Fort Richardson Water Treatment Plant, according to a […]
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Waterloo region. Fluoride breakdown. Failure to communicate, reluctance to report to the public
Documents obtained by the Waterloo Chronicle show Waterloo Region health officials were reluctant to inform the public about a breakdown in the water fluoridation system servicing the City of Waterloo, contrary to Ministry of Health guidelines. Those are just some of the troubling findings that have come out of a Chronicle investigation, a year after […]
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Is Iran Running Out of Uranium?
Western governments may be scrambling to push through tougher international sanctions against Iran, but the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program may be facing a more immediate hurdle: How to replenish its dwindling uranium stocks. Iran’s need to find fresh supplies of raw uranium supplies is increasingly urgent, according to some reports. That may be one reason […]
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Singapore will continue to put fluoride in drinking water supply
Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan says Singapore will continue to put fluoride in its drinking water supply as it is an effective way to fight tooth decay. He said this in a written reply to MP for Marine Parade GRC, Mr Seah Kian Peng. Mr Seah had asked whether putting fluoride in the drinking supply […]
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Wilcannia: Council wants water fluoridated
The Central Darling Shire Council is calling for fluoride to be added to Wilcannia’s water supply. The Fluoridation of Public Water Supplies Advisory Committee has urged the council to install a fluoridation system. But the council’s general manager, Tim Hazell, says the council needs the approval of the New South Wales Department of Health before […]
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El Doradp: Focusing on fluoridation
Excerpt: Some members of the El Dorado City Council said Thursday they would like to hear from the El Dorado Water Utilities about costs to fluoridate the city’s water system before the city accepts a grant to begin the process. Mayor Mike Dumas told aldermen that the Arkansas Department of Health is offering two grants […]
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Rous Water under fire
ROUS Water may have breached common law on Wednesday when it approved the fluoridation of the water supply on the Northern Rivers, a law lecturer at Southern Cross University said yesterday. Rous’ six councillors voted 5 to 4 in favour of fluoridation after chairman Cr Col Sullivan used his casting vote to carry the motion. […]
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Ohio/WV: New C8 studies set to begin
PARKERSBURG – A member of the C8 Science Panel was in town Wednesday to announce the next round of follow-up C8 health studies that will begin at the end of April. Science panelist Dr. Kyle Steenland with the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, stopped in Parkersburg to announce the two follow-up studies to […]
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