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The fate of a state bill mandating fluoridation of many water supplies will be decided during a vote this week
SALEM — A planned Ways and Means Committee vote Friday on mandatory water fluoridation was delayed until the coming week to address a problem raised by House Speaker Jeff Merkeley, D-Portland. Meanwhile, the controversial issue threatens to sink under its own weight because of amendments that keep being added to House Bill 3099 in an […]
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Fluoridation to reappear in tap water in Poughkeepsie
Fluoride comes back Monday after a two-year hiatus to water used by thousands of Poughkeepsie residents, but two Joint Water Board members remain concerned about potential negative health effects. Board Chairman Frank Mora also is angry with Dutchess County Health Commissioner Dr. Michael Caldwell, claiming he has not answered detailed questions about the return of […]
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Vista Irrigation District updates customers on fluoridation plans
VISTA —- The Vista Irrigation District will start adding fluoride to its locally treated water in late 2007 to coincide with a plan by a major Southern California water supplier to fluoridate all of the treated water it delivers to region, according to the district’s annual water quality report. The report, released this month, describes […]
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Yemen: Scores of village wells contaminated with fluoride
Rabab, 13, is one of six sisters and one brother living in the same house and suffering from the same problems: teeth mottling, dental fluorosis and osteosarcoma. Rabab’s bones have deteriorated as a result of arthritis. She was advised by a doctor in the health center in Maqual’a village in the Sanhan district to stop […]
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Seven injured Alcoa workers back home.Officials stay silent on gas accident at Point Comfort plant.
POINT COMFORT – Alcoa officials refused to make any comment on the industrial accident that sent seven plant workers to hospital on Wednesday after being exposed to hydrogen fluoride gas. Alcoa’s public information officer, Laura Cahill, said she could not answer questions regarding how the employees were exposed or provide details on the extent of […]
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Fluoride bill re-emerges in Salem
SALEM — A controversial bill that would pre-empt Ashland’s ban on fluoridating its water supply has reemerged after stalling earlier this legislative session. State Sen. Alan Bates told his colleagues on a Joint Ways and Means subcommittee that he was troubled by Democratic Sen. Betsy Johnson’s temporary, planned absence from the panel just so the […]
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Nigeria: NGO draws attention to bone, tooth deformation
Integrity Club, a Non Governmental Organisation (NGO, based in Damaturu, says residents of Pawari ward suffer from tooth and bone deformation. The NGO’s findings attributed the problem to the high fluoride content of the water residents consumed. It said the fluoride consumed by residents was between 22 mg and 25 mg as against the 1.5 […]
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Water fluoridation, pay high on dental association’s agenda
Fluoridation of Brisbane’s water supply and pay for dentists will be high on the agenda tonight when the Australian Dental Association (ADA) meets with Queensland Health Minister Stephen Robertson. With the State Government expected to take control of water treatment plants in south-east Queensland in 2009 as part of the restructure of the water supply […]
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Development under toxic cloud in Port Elizabeth
WHILE the rest of the world, including thousands of the world‘s leading scientists, politicians and economists, are scrambling to come up with solutions to what is potentially the biggest crisis we have ever faced in global warming, the Coega Development Corporation seems to know better than everyone else. Faced with increasing public concern and protest, […]
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Dangerous hydrogen fluoride gas sends Alcoa workers to hospital. In January, John Dorton, 37, of Port Lavaca died after inhaling the gas.
POINT COMFORT – Six Alcoa employees and one contract worker were rushed to Victoria and Galveston hospitals after coming in contact with hydrogen fluoride gas at 1 p.m. Wednesday at the Point Comfort plant, marking at least the second time this year employees have come into contact with the gas in that part of the […]
Aluminum Industry