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Southampton: Complaint over fluoridation vote
A FORMER Southampton mayor is being investigated over claims she broke council rules by influencing a vote on controversial plans for fluoridation in the city. Labour councillor Parvin Damani spoke passionately in favour of the scheme to add fluoride to nearly 200,000 Hampshire residents’ water, and voted to back it when city councillors examined the […]
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Southampton: Fluoride decision due tomorrow
THE decision on whether or not add fluoride to the water supply in parts of Southampton and south west Hampshire is due to be made at a South Central Strategic Health Authority (SCSHA) Board meeting at St Mary’s Stadium in Southampton tomorrow, Thursday 26 February. Although the policy will not apply in north west Hampshire […]
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Fluoride contamination in drinking water is matter of concern in Orissa
Bhubaneswar: It is the quality that differentiates drinking water from any other water. In this sense, there are many habitations in Orissa which have severe quality problems like iron, salinity, fluoride and chloride contamination and also bacteriological contamination. Due to geo-hydrology, growing population, depletion of ground water, rapid industrialization etc. the drinking water quality is […]
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Warrumbungle residents to be quizzed over fluoridation plan
The residents of the Warrumbungle Shire in New South Wales are divided over plans by council to fluoridate the shire’s town water supply. Council has raised the issue again, after an attempt in 2004 sparked outrage, with accusations the town was trying to ‘mass medicate’ residents. Mayor Peter Shinton says the Department of Health has […]
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Crescent City: Fluoride foes still targeting city water
A local woman who believes people are being poisoned by the fluoride in Crescent City’s water supply has started a public awareness campaign to try to get the chemical taken out. Fluoridation of water has been debated in communities throughout the country for decades. Councilwoman Donna Westfall raised the issue shortly after she was elected, […]
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Southampton: Gordon Brown on fluoridation plan
GORDON Brown believes fluoridation has been a success where it has been tried in England. Speaking just days before a decision is taken on plans to add the chemical to the water supply of nearly 200,000 Hampshire residents, the Prime Minister said he believes the choice must be a local one. Almost three-quarters of those […]
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Southampton: Agree to pay if fluoride scheme goes wrong!
Health chiefs challenged to pay ANTI-fluoride campaigners have challenged those backing plans to add the chemical to tap water in Southampton and parts of the surrounding area to accept personal liability if it goes wrong. The calls come after the head of an Australian state signed a legally-binding document promising to financially compensate anyone suffering […]
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No decision yet on pulling the plug on fluoride in water
POTTSTOWN — The borough authority held off recently on making a decision on a proposal to cease adding fluoride to the public water supply. Tuesday was the first meeting of the authority board since two sets of public hearings on the subject were held — hearings which attracted little interest from the public. “It seemed […]
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Chesterfield: 3 are treated at hospital after leak of chemical
Three people were hospitalized Friday after a hazardous chemical leak outside the Missouri American Water plant near Olive Boulevard. Between 150 and 200 gallons of hydrofluorosilicic acid leaked out of a delivery truck about 10:30 a.m. on Hog Hollow Road, Monarch Fire Protection District Fire Marshal Dave Nichols said. The driver of the truck and […]
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Southampton: NOW IT’S UP TO THEM – 5 days to go
OLGA SENIOR Director of Communications & Corporate Affairs Trained as a nurse and worked in operating theatres before moving into health service management, she has held roles as a senior civil servant in the Department of Health. PROF JOHN NEWTON Regional Director of Public Health Having qualified in medicine, he worked in hospital medical specialties […]
United Kingdom, England