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Chinese fluoride In Mass. water raises concern
Excerpt: … Team 5 Investigates found the Amesbury Water Department pulled fluoride from its system amid concerns about its supply from China. Department of Public Works Director Rob Desmarais said after he mixes the white powder with water, 40 percent of it will not dissolve… The New York company that supplies the fluoride said it […]
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Connett letter: Dr Carnie needs to answer questions
It has been nearly six months since your paper was kind enough to print a letter from 19 professionals, including myself, responding to claims made for the safety and effectiveness of water fluoridation by Dr John Carnie (chief health officer, Department of Human Services, Victoria) and other pro-fluoridation spokespersons. In our letter we pointed out […]
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Poor diet leaving Scots toothless
More than a third of Scottish women and a quarter of men aged over 55 have lost all of their teeth, government figures have revealed. The statistic was branded a “depressing indictment” of the nation’s dental health and poor dietary records. The figures released in response to a Holyrood question showed 3% of adults aged […]
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Hummert: We shouldn’t need 40 years to learn lesson
Kathleen Hughes was a Maryknoll nun and dietician working in Hong Kong. It was in 1970 that Kathleen told me of Dr. Ignatz Semmelweis (1818-65), a Hungarian doctor serving in Vienna. Semmelweis discovered mothers who were attended to in childbirth by doctors were dying more frequently than those who gave birth with a midwife present. […]
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Tenterfield: Ratepayers to pay fluoride bill
TENTERFIELD ratepayers will cover all the costs of fluoridating the town’s water supply, despite a long and vocal history in objection to the chemical’s addition to local water. A perturbed councillor Phil Yates asked the Tenterfield Shire Council at its last ordinary meeting to approach the State Government to pay the costs associated with fluoridating […]
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Bundaberg region: Fluoride to send rates soaring
AN INCREASE of 40% in Bundaberg Regional Council water rates has been flagged as the council prepares for fluoridation of its water supply. The State Government has committed to having fluoridation in place for all Queenslanders by 2012, but Cr Alan Bush said it had reneged on its promise of funding to help councils put […]
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Town of Circle removes high levels of fluoride by reverse osmosis
EPA’S ever-tightening rules push small towns out of compliance Clean water goes down easy; it’s the bill that’s hard to swallow. Few in Circle would have disputed that the town’s water was bad. The salt content was so high it killed grass; the fluoride so concentrated it discolored teeth. But when the Safe Drinking Water […]
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Waterloo: Fluoride foes say proposed question is biased, incomplete
WATERLOO REGION — A proposed referendum question on fluoridating Waterloo’s drinking water is misleading and biased, speakers told regional councillors Tuesday night. A question on continuing the practice will be included on the ballot in this fall’s municipal election. It would only be posed in places where fluoride is added to the municipal water supply […]
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Fluoride: Friend or Foe?
Excerpt: … The American Dental Association and the Centers for Disease Control have endorsed water fluoridation since 1950 and while they admit that fluoride can be toxic in excessive quantities, the ADA maintains that at optimal levels, water fluoridation is a safe and effective way to prevent dental decay. But, when we tried to ask […]
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Thorium plants cooled with molten fluoride salt
Excerpt: ” … Thorium plants cooled with molten fluoride salt would leave a fraction of the nuclear waste compared to the uranium-fueled, water-cooled plants in use today. In addition, thorium plants can’t melt down and don’t produce reliable fuel for bombs. …” Click here to read full article
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