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Hampshire: BBC presenter Peter chosen to chair fluoride questions
BBC journalist Peter White is to chair three Question Time-style events on controversial moves to add more fluoride to Hampshire’s water supplies. Mr White,a former BBC Radio Solent presenter and the Beeb’s disability affairs correspondent, will chair a panel of representatives from the pro and anti-fluoride lobby as part of a major consultation exercise by […]
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Warrnambool fluoridation fight expected to wane
Victoria’s chief health officer is confident the Warrnambool community will accept a decision to add fluoride to the city’s drinking water. Fluoride will be added to the water supply today. There has been strong opposition to the move from some community groups, which say water fluoridation is akin to forced medication. The chief health officer, […]
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Warrnambool, Allansford, Koroit: Fluoride flows today; Disputed chemical in water
FLUORIDE will be added to water supplies in Warrnambool, Allansford and Koroit from today. The introduction has been welcomed by Warrnambool dentist Tony Davies who said fluoridation was a safe and effective measure of reducing tooth decay. The move to fluoridate the water supply follows a mammoth effort by Warrnambool protesters over the past year […]
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Costs to treat water flood town coffers
The cost of chemicals injected into many municipal water supplies is on the rise, according to area public works departments. Chemicals like fluoride, which is added to municipal water to improve dental health, and potassium hydroxide used to increase the pH level of the water supply are among the products that have increased in cost. […]
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Letter: Water fluoridation poses health risks for doubtful benefit
Adding fluoride to Nova Scotia’s drinking water began in the ’70s as the result of a provincial health Initiative for what we were told would prevent tooth decay. Fluoride an extremely toxic compound. The chemical used to fluoridate Nova Scotia’s water supply (including that of Sydney, Glace Bay, New Waterford and North Sydney) is collected […]
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Time to brush up on fluoride risks
Despite the ongoing and often heated debate, it’s clear Health Canada is not particularly concerned about fluoride in tap water. Or is it? It commissioned an independent study, which reported in January 2007 that governments should lower the amount of fluoride in water and urge makers of toothpaste and baby formula to reduce it in […]
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Fury as anti-fluoride protesters fined for breaking bylaw in city centre
WARRNAMBOOL’S long-running anti-fluoride campaign was ordered to shut down its operations in the CBD yesterday. The city council fined campaigners $226 for illegally setting up near a pedestrian crossing in Liebig Street. But the anti-fluoride protesters, who were running a citizens’-initiated referendum, claimed their booth was legal and vowed to return today. Organiser Stephen Juhasz […]
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Fluoride toxicity in Jharkhand State of India
Tragedy has struck many a family in the Bakhari and Chukru, village of Jharkhand’s Daltanganj district, where excess fluoride in water has left several with severe physical deformities and even paralyzed some. Bakhari village, situated about 20 km from the district headquarters, has a population of nearly 700, comprising mostly tribals and members of socially […]
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SA energy crisis affects Mozambique aluminium export
Mozambique’s production and exports of aluminium will be lower than hoped for this year, owing to electricity shortages in South Africa. Resources giant BHP Billiton’s Mozal aluminium smelter MD Raitt Marshall confirmed earlier this year that 2008 would see a reduction in exports, but he did not put a figure on this. Marshall said that, […]
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East Lancs health chief backs fluoridation plans
EAST Lancashire’s leading public health expert has backed proposals to add fluoride to the region’s drinking water. Dr Ellis Friedman, director of public health for NHS East Lancashire, said it would be unethical not to add the controversial mineral to supplies, as it had been shown as the most effective way of dramatically improving dental […]
United Kingdom, England