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Thunder Bay: Health Unit Launches Fluoridation Website
The Thunder Bay District Health Unit today unveiled its newest website, thunderbayfluoride.ca, that will serve as both an information source and a venue for discussion around the issue of community water fluoridation. Community water fluoridation (adding controlled amounts of fluoride to a drinking water supply) is regarded as one of the top ten public health […]
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Coffs Harbour: Fluoridation will happen
COFFS Harbour’s water supply is due to be fluoridated by the end of May. A Department of Public Health spokesperson said fluoride will be added once the new plant at Karangi is commissioned. Once the process begins, water quality will be tested daily. One milligram of fluoride per litre (one part per million) will be […]
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First commercial perfluorochemicals found in human blood
For the first time, a group of perfluorochemicals used on food wrappers has been identified in human blood at low part-per-billion concentrations. The chemicals, known as polyfluoroalkyl phosphoric acid diesters (diPAPs), also were found at concentrations about 100 times higher in sewage sludge. These findings, published in ES&T (DOI 10.1021/es900100d) by chemistry graduate student Jessica […]
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The addition of fluoride to water in the Far North has been stopped, pending community consultation
The Far North District Council agreed to fluoridate Kaitaia and Kaikohe water for two years, on what it understood was a trial basis. The Northland District Health Board has applied to continue the measure for another two years. But the council says it was expecting some results from the trial, before consulting the community about […]
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Uttar Pradesh: Big on voter count, small on results
Unnao, Uttar Pradesh: This busy, bustling town in central Uttar Pradesh will vote in the third phase of the 2009 Lok Sabha election on Thursday, but not just as any other constituency. Unnao, after the delimitation exercise completed in 2007, has become the parliamentary constituency with the largest electorate. Delimitation involves redrawing the boundaries of […]
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Orillia: Fluoride Forum Floated
City council decided on Monday night to hold a public forum on flouridation. But not before Coun. Wayne Gardy was satisfied the motion approving the forum was toothless. Gardy asked that the word “implementation” be removed from the phrase “that the city consider the implementation of a flouridation program.” It was fine to have the […]
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Bega Valley: To fluoridate our water or not to… that is the question
Bega Valley Shire Council will consult with the community on a proposal to fluoridate all of the shire’s drinking water. In a report to last week’s council meeting, the group manager of infrastructure, waste and water, Doug Mein, said that over the past 12 months council had received a number of enquiries from community members, […]
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Bega Valley: Our Say – Unnecessary procrastination
The benefits of fluoridation to dental health are indisputable and the Bega Valley Shire Council should start the process to fluoridate this area’s water supply forthwith. Our children’s teeth, and those of our ageing population, have been deprived the benefits of fluoride for close on half a century putting this area among the most backward […]
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NF3: Committee OKs pro-environment bill to regulate gas 17,000 times more damaging than carbon dioxide
SACRAMENTO – An environmental policy-setting panel today approved Sen. Jenny Oropeza´s plan to reduce the release into the air of a widely used ´greenhouse´ gas previously thought harmless. The Senate Environmental Quality Committee´s approval of Senate Bill 104 came the week following Earth Day. If adopted into law, SB 104 would direct the California Air […]
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All smiles for fluoride levels
State recognizes several water system companies in Jo Daviess County JO DAVIESS COUNTY-The state honored five water companies serving Jo Daviess County. The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) along with the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA) presented fluoridation awards to 435 community water systems throughout the state for maintaining state-mandated fluoride levels every month […]
United States, Illinois