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Pure water promise to village schools
Ranchi, Dec. 26: The government has, finally, woken up to water woes plaguing schools across the state. It has taken up an ambitious project to supply clean drinking water to around 50 lakh children in over 38,000 primary and middle schools. Under the project titled Jalmani, a water purification system will be installed in all […]
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Hindalco: Waste water with high concentration of fluoride and cyanide
SAMBALPUR: Notwithstanding numerous notices served by State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), aluminum producer Hindalco has failed to act on hazardous waste management. The wastes are reportedly generated by Hindalco’s aluminium smelter plant. An SPCB team pulled up the plant for its failure to curb pollution after a recent visit. The team found that waste water […]
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Dexter dentist not smiling after water fluoridation test
Dentist Barbara Wehr would usually chalk it up to sweets and sugary beverages when a child came into her Dexter office with a mouthful of cavities. Most of these children were from the village, which Wehr assumed had optimal levels of fluoride in the municipal water supply. Then one of her colleagues took a look […]
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Alabama: EPA finds record PFOS, PFOA levels in Alabama grazing fields
Because of very high levels of perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS), perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), and other perfluorochemicals found in agricultural soils near Decatur, Ala., scientists with the U.S. EPA, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are investigating whether perfluorinated chemicals have entered the human food chain and contaminated meat. […]
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New discovery: fluorinated molecules are made “under mild biological conditions”
(Media-Newswire.com) – Scientists at the University of St Andrews have created exotic biological compounds in a test tube by uncovering some of Nature’s chemical secrets. The development for preparing fluorinated chemicals, an important group of compounds which comprise commercial entities such as Teflon and Prozac, could help the multibillion dollar industry which currently makes the […]
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Southampton: MP Sandra latest to join join anti-fluoride lobby
ROMSEY’S MP is the latest to condemn plans to add extra fluoride to tap water supplies in the Nursling and Southampton areas. Sandra Gidley has submitted her response to South Central Strategic Health Authority that is looking at the plans submitted by Southampton City Primary Care Trust. Mrs Gidley, who is the Liberal Democrats’ public […]
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South Gloucestershire: Fluoride could be flowing through taps
FLUORIDE could soon be flowing through South Gloucestershire taps in a bid to improve the region’s dental health. Technical studies are being carried out on how fluoridation of the Bristol Water area would be carried out and a public consultation is due to be launched next year. Director of public health at NHS South Gloucestershire, […]
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Senate, No. 2819 – includes promotion of Community Water Fluoridation
Update: “12/22/08 -H Read second, amended (as recommended by the committee on Ways and Means) and ordered to a third reading” SENATE, No. 2819 AN ACT TO IMPROVE, PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE ORAL HEALTH OF THE COMMONWEALTH. Excerpt: SECTION 3. (5) promote and provide technical assistance, monitoring and evaluation of population-based dental programs, such as […]
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Southampton: You’ve had your say on fluoride: now what happens…?
THE talking is over, so what now? Health professionals, local councillors and MPs, campaigners and thousands of residents have all given their views on the proposed scheme to add fluoride to Hampshire tap water. The first consultation of its kind in England since a change in the law over the way fluoridation can be introduced […]
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Chiru fumes at YSR for ‘neglecting’ fluorosis
CHOUTUPPAL (NALGONDA DT): Moved by the plight of flourosis victims, Praja Rajyam Party president Chiranjeevi came down heavily on the ruling Congress for its failure in bailing them out. Chiranjeevi interacted with the flourosis victims in the village, as part of his second day Praja Ankita Sabha today. He spoke to two patients of flourosis. […]
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