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Warrnambool: Plea on fluoridation
A WARRNAMBOOL councillor has called on the State Government to address the city’s rising anger over water fluoridation. The city council has been strongly criticised for its lack of action with an anti-fluoride group claiming it is ignoring its ratepayers. The depth of fury over fluoride was shown last week, when more than 95 per […]
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DeRuyter 5-year-olds get Ritalin by mistake
When teachers at DeRuyter Elementary told Amata Rounsaville that her kindergarten daughter was one of 15 pupils accidentally given Ritalin instead of a routine fluoride tablet Thursday morning, she hurried to the school to find out how such a mix-up could occur. Both pills are small, but the fluoride was dark purple, smelled like grape […]
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Levels of fluoride in Inishowen water unsafe
Levels of fluoride in some Inishowen water supplies have have been branded ‘unsafe’ following a county-wide study into the issue. “There is a major problem of fluoride over-exposure in Inishowen East and in Buncrana,” Robert Pocock, a campaigner with VOICE (Voice of Irish Concern for the Environment) told the ‘Journal’ yesterday. Up to 8,500 people […]
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Fluoridation: Time to reevaluate
The BMJ needs to be commended for further opening the scientific debate on fluoridation. For the first 25 years of dental practice I promoted the addition of fluoride to water, in part because I thought I could “see” the difference between those on fluoridated water and those without. Unfortunately, I was actually comparing socioeconomics rather […]
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Newport may delay adding fluoride to county water
Newport Beach City Council members will decide Tuesday whether to ask for a delay in the upcoming fluoridation of Orange County’s water supply so they can sort out residents’ concerns. The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, which provides 18% of Newport’s drinking water, plans to begin adding fluoride at the Robert B. Diemer Treatment […]
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Corning denies Star-Gazette FOIA request
CORNING – The city of Corning has denied a Star-Gazette Freedom of Information Law request. The newspaper filed the request Tuesday, seeking a copy of an opinion by the city’s lawyer on the validity of anti-flouride petitions filed last month. The city plans to make public the lawyer’s ruling at a press conference at 9 […]
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Students given Ritalin instead of fluoride tablets
DERUYTER, N.Y. — A mistake by a school nurse results in the distribution of a prescription drug to a kindergarten class. It happened in the DeRuyter School District this morning. Superintendent Bruce Sharpe says the nurse for the elementary school mistakenly brought another student’s Ritalin prescription to the kindergarten class instead of fluoride tablets, which […]
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Waitaki District Council: all Wards with referendum vote NO to fluoridation
On October 18, 2007, the Waitaki District Council released the results of the fluoridation referendum held in four Wards on October 13, 2007. Prior to the election the Council circulated information “For” and “Against” adding fluoride to public water supplies – see links below. The following are the official results released by the Waitaki District […]
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Warrambool: Record outcry against fluoride
NINE out of 10 respondents oppose fluoride being added to Warrnambool’s water supply, a survey has found. The verdict was an overwhelming “no” to the Department of Human Services’ decision to add fluoride to drinking water. Of the 920 votes on The Standard website, 93 per cent rejected use of the chemical. Another 500 residents […]
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DuPont e-mails about C8 draw panel’s criticism
PARKERSBURG. Public statements by local DuPont officials regarding the outcome of employee health studies were misleading, according to some members of the company’s own Epidemiology Review Advisory Board. DuPont says exposure to ammonium perfluorooctanoate, also known as PFOA or C8, does not pose a health risk to the general public. A small increase in lipids […]
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