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Rocky Mount: Fluoridation equipment to be replaced
Excerpt: … On another water matter, town council voted to accept a $4,918 grant from the state Health Department for the purchase of fluoridation equipment for the water treatment plant. Deitrich said the treatment plant’s fluoridation equipment if getting old and needs to be replaced.
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Donora: A temperature inversion sets the stage for the Donora Smog of 1948
Welcome to the Daily TWiP, your daily dose of all the holidays, historical observances, etc., we couldn’t cram into The Week in Preview. Today in 1948, a stifling yellow smog descended on the industrial mill town of Donora, Pa. It blanketed the town until Oct. 31st, when it was finally dispersed by rain. By then, […]
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Somerset County: Permit issued for disputed wells
PRINCESS ANNE — After a five-year wait, state officials have issued a permit for two wells that had been the subject of a lawsuit scheduled to be heard next week in Circuit Court. A copy of the permit arrived by fax Thursday, an hour before the start of the Somerset County Sanitary Commission meeting. “They’re […]
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Totton, Hampshire: Health minister attacks fluoride ‘scare stories’
A HEALTH minister has attacked fluoride “scare stories” as 8,000 Totton residents await the outcome of a legal battle over adding: it to their water supply. Mike O’Brien answered a challenge by New Forest East MP Julian Lewis in the House of Commons by urging people to make judgements “based on the evidence”. Totton was […]
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Southampton: Silence on the cola ads
SOUTHAMPTON City Council used to be ever so concerned about children’s teeth. Dental health was so important that a small majority of councillors supported the fluoridation of water supplies on this basis alone, putting aside concerns on the effects of fluoride elsewhere in the body. Upon receipt of an offer by Coca-Cola to pay for […]
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Waterloo. Vieth letter: Where’s the science?
Re: Dental association favours fluoridation — Oct. 3 The comments by Dr. Ira Kirshen, president of the Ontario Dental Association (ODA), about artificial water fluoridation only continues the tradition of making broad appeals to authority figures without providing supportive science. If the ODA wishes us to believe fluoridated drinking water containing hydrofluorosilicic acid and its […]
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Labor branch opposes fluoridation
QUEENSLAND Premier Anna Bligh may be keen to fluoridate the state’s water supply, but not all supporters of the Australian Labor Party are flashing toothy grins over it. One of the Gladstone region’s branches of the party (there are two) is considering submitting a motion condemning fluoridation at Sunday’s ALP conference in Rockhampton. If it […]
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DRAFT REPORT: Fluoride in Drinking Water. Public comment due Nov 27, 2009
Report at http://www.fluoridealert.org/canada.2009.report.pdf Purpose of consultation The Federal-Provincial-Territorial Committee on Drinking Water (CDW) has assessed the available information on fluoride with the intent of revising the current drinking water guideline. The purpose of this consultation is to solicit comments on the proposed Maximum Acceptable Concentration on the approach used for the development of the guideline […]
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Studies: All Infant Formula Contains Fluoride at Tooth-Discoloring Levels
New York – October 21, 2009 – All infant formulas, whether ready-to-feed, concentrated or organic, contain fluoride at levels which can discolor developing teeth, reports the October 2009 Journal of the American Dental Association (JADA) (1). Fluoride, added to some bottled and public water supplies ostensibly to prevent cavities, is also in many foods and […]
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Gloucestershire: Stroud public gears up to oppose fluoridation
A straw poll of local opinion, taken on the streets of Stroud in advance of the AGM of the Stroud and District Safe Water Campaign earlier this month (October) found 90 totally opposed to the threatened introduction of mass medication caused by the addition of fluoride to the total water supply in Gloucestershire… and just […]
United Kingdom, England