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More stain repelling chemicals found in Inuit’s traditional food than in store foods.
Ostertag, SK, BA Tague, MM Humphries, SA. Tittlemier, HM Chan. 2009. Estimated dietary exposure to fluorinated compounds from traditional foods among Inuit in Nunavut, Canada. Chemosphere 75 (9):1165-1172. The Inuit’s traditional diet of caribou, fish and whale contains more nonstick chemicals than store-bought foods, but the exposure poses minimal risk, say the study’s authors. Traditional […]
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Vinalhaven to vote on one contested seat, fluoride question
EXCERPT: Vinalhaven voters will cast ballots on Tuesday, June 9 to fill two selectman positions, two school board posts, and one post on the Vinalhaven Water District. All the positions are for three years. In the only contested race, incumbents Patricia Lundholm and Dennis Warren will appear on the ballot with Jack Olson to see […]
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Southampton: NHS South Central sets aside £400,000 for fluoridation review
South Central strategic health authority has set aside £400,000 to cover the costs of a likely judicial review following its board’s decision in February to add fluoride to water supplies in parts of the region. The news came as NHS Yorkshire and the Humber said it would carry out a study into the feasibility of […]
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Whangarei residents are told … It’s time to think again on fluoride
Northland children continue to chalk up the worst tooth decay rates nationallyDr Neil Croucher, NDHB dental adviser CAPTION2 Seven years after saying no to having fluoride in the water supply it is time the people of Whangarei reconsidered the issue, says Northland District Health Board. The board is calling for Whangarei District Council to sound […]
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GEELONG. Editorial: Fluoride whether we like it or not
FEW words are as emotive as fluoridation. The letters to the editor column of this newspaper is testament to the passion it arouses; the closer fluoridation of Geelong’s water has become the more strident the debate, the more powerful the arguments against its introduction. It’s like global warming _ you either agree with it or […]
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Effects of weather conditions on sulfuryl fluoride and methyl bromide leakage during structural fumigation in a flour mill
Abstract A validated Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) model of structural fumigation was used to perform 54 fumigation simulations (half with sulfuryl fluoride, SF, and half with methyl bromide, MB) using recorded hourly average weather data for 4 July and 1 September at Indianapolis International Airport for the years 1996–2006. These weather data were used as […]
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Forsyth researchers collect stimulus grants
Three scientists at Boston’s Forsyth Institute have been awarded a total of $1.88 million in federal research funds through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, also known as the stimulus bill. The National Institutes of Health made the grants through the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research with a goal of maintaining […]
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Reno-area fluoride bill dies
CARSON CITY, Nev.—A measure to require the Truckee Meadows Water Authority to fluoridate water in the Reno area has died without an Assembly committee vote needed to keep it alive. Assembly Health and Human Services Chairwoman Debbie Smith, D-Sparks, said there wasn’t support in her committee or the full Assembly for SB311. “It’s dead,” Smith […]
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Yorkshire: ‘Should fluoride be put in water?’
A feasibility study is being carried out into whether fluoride should be added to drinking water in a bid to improve oral health in the district. Yorkshire and Humber Strategic Health Authority is to carry out the study on behalf of the whole region, but at the specific request of primary care trusts in Bradford […]
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Academy agrees updated fluoride guidelines
The European Academy of Paediatric Dentistry’s Board and Council have unanimously approved proposed guidelines on the use of fluoride in toothpaste for children. This approval followed a six-month discussion period in an effort to achieve the highest level of consensus. The consensus reached was that fluoride levels in toothpastes targeted at children aged six months […]
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