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Southampton: Divided by fluoride
DEPENDING on who you listen to, fluoride is either a poison or a tried-and-tested cure for an entirely preventable disease. In Southampton, health chiefs want to add it to the water supply of two-thirds of the city’s residents in a bid to improve chronic dental health, particularly in more deprived areas. They say the increasingly […]
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Thar desert among areas facing endemic fluorosis: PCSIR experts
HYDERABAD, June 7 (APP): Thar Desert area of Sindh province is among Pakistan’s areas which are experiencing endemic fluorosis on regional scale. Muhammad Tahir Rafique, Senior Scientific Officer, Pakistan Council of Scientific Industrial Research (PCSIR) Karachi said here Friday defending his Ph.D thesis “Occurrence, Distribution and Origin of Fluoride-Rich Groundwater in the Thar Desert, Pakistan,” […]
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Huntingdon fires supervisor at water plant over fluoride accident
HUNTINGDON — The borough fired its water treatment plant supervisor Thursday for failing to notify the public when the plant recently violated treatment standards. The state Department of Environmental Protection served the borough two notices of violations that occurred April 21 and May 21. The borough faces fines for the violations. ‘‘We don’t appreciate doing […]
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Southampton: Make sure you have your say on fluoride
IT’S one of the most contentious issues to hit Southampton in years – and you haven’t been slow to voice your opinions. To fluoride or not to fluoride – that is the controversial question that has had Daily Echo readers voting in their thousands. Votes are still coming thick and fast as residents have their […]
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Southampton: Will you get fluoride?
The Daily Echo can today reveal the areas inside and outside Southampton that would receive mass-medicated water if city health chiefs get their way. (See today’s Daily Echo to see the areas affected). About two-thirds of people within the city boundaries are set to be given topped-up levels of fluoride in a bid to improve […]
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Southampton: Shocking pictures show toddler’s tooth decay
HEALTH chiefs have released shocking new pictures of Southampton youngsters’ rotten teeth as the debate over adding fluoride to water supplies hots up. In one of the images, the tiny mouth of a three-year-old child is filled with blackened stumps of decaying and diseased teeth. Dentists say distressing sights like these, which highlight the extent […]
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Southampton: Water company refuse to give details of areas affected
THE company that could be forced to add fluoride to Hampshire residents’ tap water has refused to tell the Daily Echo exactly where the medicated supplies would go. Southern Water says it is referring all requests for information on the proposed fluoridation scheme to South Central Strategic Health Authority (SHA), because it doesn’t want to […]
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Gretna: Resolution to put fluoridation Nov. 4 ballot
RESOLUTION 6-08 (1 WHEREAS, Section 71-3305 allows the voters of a city to vote to adopt an ordinance before June 1, 2010, to prohibit the addition of fluoride to the city water system; and WHEREAS, Section 71-3305 authorizes the governing body to place the ordinance to prohibit the addition of fluoride to the city water […]
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Southampton: Fluoridation of city would have wider impact
ADDING fluoride to Southampton’s tap water would mean thousands of people living outside the city receiving the medication – even though they do not need it. The Daily Echo can reveal that more than 36,000 residents in Eastleigh, Totton, Hamble and Netley will also get top-ups of the chemical if the controversial plan goes ahead. […]
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Hanna: Fluoridation to end
The Henry Kroeger Water Treatment Plant here in town is hoping to make some new health and safety related changes to their facilities in upcoming months. Garth Carl, operations manager at the treatment plant, said that new machinery will be brought in that uses salt and electricity to disinfect the water instead of the highly […]
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