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Public support ‘vital’ for fluoridation, say Tories
PUBLIC support for adding fluoride to the drinking water of 8,000 people in Totton would be “vital” under a Conservative government, according to the party’s shadow health minister. The high-profile commitment — made as the next general election gets closer was extracted by fellow Tory New Forest East MP Julian Lewis who wrote asking for […]
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New Jersey: Another judge heard from: PFOA suit allowed in N.J.
Less than a week after a major victory in a federal court in West Virginia, DuPont Co. today was handed a serious setback in its efforts to fend off citizen lawsuits over PFOA pollution. The ruling came in the U.S. District Court of New Jersey, where residents are suing DuPont over contamination of their drinking […]
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A Cavity in Medicaid Dental Coverage
Caption under photo: Rep. Dennis Kucinich held hearings in October on low-income childrens’ access to dental care. Not even a third of the nation’s lowest-income children receive dental care, and Congress isn’t doing a thing about it. Although Medicaid, the federal-state partnership covering America’s poorest kids, provides dental coverage for all children enrolled in the […]
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Gainesville: GRU won’t remove fluoride; commission will vote
Excerpt: Fluoride – a chemical added to drinking water to help prevent tooth decay – is back in the public dialogue in a vocal way. Opponents of fluoride in Gainesville’s public water supply have requested the public policy that allows the use of fluorine be reconsidered by the City Commission. Despite outcry from a group […]
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Plattsburgh: City flap over fluoride continues
The debate over fluoride in the City of Plattsburgh turned ugly Thursday night. Former councilor William Provost appeared at the council meeting to tell councilors and Mayor Donald Kasprzak that he believes fluoride is harmful and should be removed from the city’s water supply. Provost and Gerald Carpenter have been appearing before the council for […]
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27% of three-year-olds have tooth decay
More than 20% of eight-year-olds, 50% of 12-year-olds and 75% of 15-year-olds have experienced decay in their permanent teeth. Tooth decay is the most common chronic disease of childhood and the level of tooth decay is higher among Irish children than their UK counterparts, according to a leading researcher on oral health. Dr Carmel Parnell, […]
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Moncton councillor seeks answers on fluoride in Moncton water; city follows Health Canada guidelines
Saying, “fluoride is a toxic waste that probably does more harm than good,” Moncton Councillor-at-large Pierre Boudreau called on city staff this week to report back at the next public meeting of council on the amount of fluoridation done to the city’s municipal water supply. The answer to that question, says Ensor Nicholson, the city’s […]
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Brisbane. North Pine fluoride plant back on line
THE water treatment plant that overdosed then under-dosed Brisbane northside residents with fluoride in April is back on line with a guarantee problems will not occur again. Equipment that failed has been replaced and a second automatic cut-off system fitted between the North Pine water treatment plant and the fluoride plant. Seqwater spokesman Mike Foster […]
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Dalton, Georgia. PFC contamination in the “Carpet Capital of the World”
Title: Perfluorochemical (PFC) Contamination in Dalton, GA. Statement and Background Prepared by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). October 8, 2009. Statement: EPA received information in July 2009 from Dalton Utilities that PFCs were detected in soil, ground water, and compost at its Loopers Bend wastewater treatment facility, and in the adjacent Conasauga River. Dalton Utilities […]
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Georgia. EPA: Wells near wastewater treatment site largely OK
Water from wells near Dalton Utilities Looper’s Bend wastewater treatment facility is largely free from the industrial chemicals perflouroctanoic acid (PFOA) and perflouroctane sulfonate (PFOS), according to the federal Environmental Protection Agency. PFOA and PFOS are related chemicals that have been used in a large variety of industrial processes for decades. They are used to […]
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