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DuPont, Teflon and the potential impact of a class action lawsuit.
In the 1930’s DuPont, a U.S. firm, invented and began to market a substance called Teflon. Teflon is used today primarily as a non-stick coating for pots, pans and other cookware, though Teflon also has applications as a coating for textile based products such as clothes, apparel, carpeting and furniture. When manufacturing Teflon a chemical […]
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Southampton: Forced fluoride a “scandal”
Forced fluoridation for Eastleigh and Netley residents was a “democratic scandal”, according to Chris Huhne [MP for Eastleigh]. “More than 70 per cent of the public responses were against the decision along with the elected representatives of Eastleigh and other areas, but this Whitehall-appointed quango just went ahead anyway,” says Chris. In a last-ditch attempt […]
United Kingdom, England -
Southampton: Health bosses deny anywhere was left out of fluoride consultation
HEALTH bosses in Southampton have denied they have left any area out of the public consultation on fluoridation, after the Daily Echo revealed what appeared to be more confusion surrounding the controversial scheme. This paper reported some residents’ complaints they had not been properly included in the public consultation on the plans, and left in […]
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Fluoride Insight [response to “upsurge in hip fractures”]
Further to your report Doctors ‘struggling to cope’ with upsurge in hip fractures (News, last week), the republic of Ireland is the most fluoridated country in the world. There is well documented epidemiological literature associating hip and other fractures with drinking-water fluoridation. It would be most illuminating to compare the reported hip fracture rates with […]
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Fluoride in Washoe water up for debate again
The sometimes emotional issue of adding fluoride to public water supplies in Washoe County is on tap again in a new bill before the Nevada Legislature. Supporters of Senate Bill 311, passed April 8 by the Senate Health and Education Committee, said it’s a safe and proven means to improve dental health of the county’s […]
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Trenton resumes adding fluoride to water
TRENTON — The fluoride is flowing once again. Almost six weeks after two Lawrence councilmen angrily complained that Trenton Water Works never notified customers it had stopped adding fluoride to drinking water supplies, the city said fluoridation resumed this week. “On Tuesday, April 14th, the water utility returned to its practice of adding one milligram […]
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Southampton: Fluoride debacle was in Bassett
THIS paper’s concerns voiced in yesterday’s editions over the ongoing debate over fluoride raised a number of questions. The issue over adding the chemical to some of the water supply for the city of Southampton has become a hot topic. Yesterday we reported how some people in the Bassett area were concerned they were unaware […]
United Kingdom, England -
Norphlet Chemical, Arkansas: Schools closed due to chemical concern
Norphlet – The Norphlet School District was closed Friday after federal inspectors found that a 7,800-gallon tank of hydrofluoric acid was being stored improperly at a nearby chemical plant. Officials say the school was closed as a precaution, and a spokesman for the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality says there’s been no chemical leak. Union […]
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Obama administration breaks with the years of ‘climate change denial’
The Obama administration took a bold first step towards limiting the gases that cause global warming today after formally declaring that such emissions are a danger to public health. The official finding by the Environmental Protection Agency that carbon dioxide and five other gases threaten public welfare sets the stage for regulation of emissions from […]
Greenhouse/Ozone Gases -
EPA Finds Greenhouse Gases Pose Threat to Public Health, Welfare
Washington, D.C. – April 17, 2009) After a thorough scientific review ordered in 2007 by the U.S. Supreme Court, the Environmental Protection Agency issued a proposed finding Friday that greenhouse gases contribute to air pollution that may endanger public health or welfare. The proposed finding, which now moves to a public comment period, identified six […]
Greenhouse/Ozone Gases