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ACSH, America’s biggest defender of toxic chemicals, ranks fluoridation: #2 Unfounded Health Scare of 2007
The (Unfounded) Scare: The addition of fluoride to tap water causes multiple health problems, including fluorosis, abnormal thyroid function, lower IQ and osteosarcoma. Origin of the Scare: The Environmental Working Group (EWG) published an article in their August 2007 Bulletin entitled “Fluoride in Your Water: Friend or Foe?”(6) The article claimed that “[e]ven the American […]
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Fluoride coming to Creswick
CRESWICK’S water looks set to be fluoridated. But the rest of the Hepburn Shire will have to wait. The Department of Human Services announced last week it planned to introduce the chemical in Ballarat water. Creswick is the only Hepburn Shire centre connected to the fluoride-bound Ballarat system. A spokesperson for DHS said it was […]
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Queensland’s Health Minister denies fluoride causes health issues
Health Minister Stephen Robertson has hit back at claims that fluoridation of the state’s water supplies could cause health problems in infants. He says an Australian Institute of Health and Welfare report, which has found that Queensland children have worse teeth than children in Uganda, justifies the Government’s recent decision to fluoridate water across the […]
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Geelong doctors back fluoride in water
GEELONG general practitioners have backed fluoridation of the city’s water supply and expect benefits to reach far beyond improved oral health. The GP Association of Geelong is one of a dozen health and welfare organisations to have endorsed fluoridation for the city as the State Government prepares to distribute education booklets to residents. GPs believe […]
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Fluoride – it’s a cow of a topic
FLUORIDATED water might keep the teeth of cows healthy, but it could be milking them of their intelligence. These observations were offered during an animated discussion in State Parliament about the arguable benefits of introducing fluoride to the water supplies of regional cities. The Democratic Labor Party’s Peter Kavanagh — who maintains that fluoride lowers […]
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Fluoridated-water war flows on
To fluoridate or not to fluoridate. The battle rages on. At least in the east-side Salt Lake Valley community of Holladay – and in the mind of state Rep. Sylvia Andersen, R-Sandy. Holladay is where faucets servicing 15,000 residents still dispense nonfluoridated water – despite a 2000 voter mandate. Andersen, for the second year, is […]
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Alafia River has high fluoride levels due to phosphate plants
Tampa Bay Water officials say they want to protect water quality in the Alafia River by changing the river’s classification so it must meet drinking water standards. That argument, however, rang hollow Thursday for some Hillsborough County commissioners. They see the reclassification as a way for Tampa Bay Water to transfer future river cleanup costs […]
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Information session on high fluoride levels in Othello Well 6
At last week’s city council workshop, council members learned about an unsuccessful attempt to gauge the entry point of fluoride into Well No. 6, the city’s most productive well. The council earlier decided to go ahead with studies of Well No. 6 to determine where fluoride is entering the well from the aquifer and how […]
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Suzanne Somers letter to the Malibu Surfside Times
Editor, I just received the letter entitled “Information on Fluoridation of your Drinking Water,” LA Waterworks District No. 29, Malibu (that’s us folks). This information sheet is filled with misleading and untrue information which affects all of us and the health we are enjoying. Fluoride is being presented to us as an opportunity. Nothing could […]
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800 people rally against Warrnambool fluoridation proposal
ANTI-FLUORIDE campaigners have vowed to keep fighting after an estimated 800 people attended a protest rally last night on the Warrnambool Civic Green. The strong numbers gave protesters renewed confidence to push ahead with their bid to ask Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to intervene and stop fluoride dosing plants being installed in water supplies throughout […]
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