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The wrong sort of helping hand
The nuclear suppliers group (NSG) released a statement outlining its conditions for allowing the transfer of nuclear technology to India for use in IAEA safeguard facilities. According to the statement, the NSG “note(d) steps that India has voluntarily taken” to institute “a national export control system capable of effectively controlling transfers of multilaterally controlled… nuclear-related […]
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Southampton: Fluoride battle lines drawn
THE battle lines have been drawn in the great fluoridation debate. The issue has arisen because Southampton Primary Care Trust is considering a small increase in the natural level of fluoride in the public water system to combat a dental health problem in parts of the city. If it went ahead the increase would also […]
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Southampton: Fluoridation leaflet gives people a say
EVERY home which would receive fluoridated water under a controversial scheme being considered by health chiefs is to be offered the chance to have its say. Letters and leaflets are being delivered to 110,000 households in a bid to get more feedback from those affected by the plans. With less than a month left of […]
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Sinnott to speak in Limerick tonight on water quality
INDEPENDENT MEP Kathy Sinnott is set to speak about the “cumulative poison” being added to Irish tap water at a public meeting in the city this Monday night. Ms Sinnott, who represents the south of Ireland in the European Parliament, is a long time opponent to the use of fluoride in public water supplies. “As […]
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Hamilton: Less fluoride urged
The growing controversy over fluoridating drinking water comes to Hamilton today with critics and advocates of the practice making presentations to a city committee. The city’s health department is recommending it continue using fluoride — at slightly less concentrated levels. But that doesn’t sit well with representatives from the group People for Safe Water, who […]
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Owners of former Reynolds plant shift focus to below-ground contamination
A cleanup of the contaminated Longview industrial site where Reynolds Metals Co. made aluminum for 60 years will take roughly three more years and cost a total of about $65 million, the owners of the property say. Dozens of workers have been dismantling the defunct smelter and cleaning up buildings and old aluminum potlines over […]
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Reynolds site contamination timeline
Here’s a quick look at some of the pollution issues and complaints involving Reynolds Metals Co. since the aluminum plant opened in 1941: 1946: Reynolds installs a $500,000 fume control system that hoses dangerous fumes from potlines into local drainage ditches. 1948: Dozens of farmers and dairymen begin filing lawsuits in federal court against the […]
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Fluoride Opposition: Scientific, Respectable & Growing
Since the Fluoride Action Network (FAN) first issued a statement in August 2007 calling for an end to fluoridation, over 1300 additional professionals signed on as even more evidence emerges to condemn fluoridation. Also, 53 cities rejected fluoridation on election day. Now over 1,950 professionals urge Congress to stop water fluoridation until Congressional hearings are […]
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Fluoride scare led Saginaw to violate its own charter for 30 years
Saginaw officials aren’t worried about a Communist takeover. Not anymore, at least. The City Charter advisory panel has discussed changes to the 70-page governing blueprint and discovered a half-century-old chapter likely authored under the heat of the Red Scare. The panel wants to delete Chapter 18, added in 1954, that forbade the City Council from […]
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Lives crumble in water
Hamshala Swami can barely stand. He can only sit or lie on his back and that too only with the help of his father. Swami is suffering from gene valgum, a skeletal deformity that occurs due to high intake of fluoride. His bones have become so brittle that he can’t even lift a glass of […]
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