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Water fluoridation and the quality of information available online
Background: The Internet has transformed the way in which people approach their health care, with online resources becoming a primary source of health information. Little work has assessed the quality of online information regarding community water fluoridation. This study sought to assess the information available to individuals searching online for information, with emphasis on the […]
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Teachers Oppose Fluoride Supplement Program
SLIPPERY ROCK — Slippery Rock School District personnel are seemingly unanimous in their recommendation that the district stop distributing fluoride tablets to elementary students. The teachers’ union opposes the practice. The district superintendent does too. Monday night, the district’s two elementary school nurses weighed in on the issue at the board meeting at the Slippery […]
United States, Pennsylvania -
Fluoride Back – with conditions
When North Baldwin Utilities put it’s last drop of fluoride in the water supply earlier this month, NBU had no plans of ordering more fluoride. But, Tuesday NBU put the chemical back into the system. Jason Padgett with NBU says, “I think the board of directors have thought that it was best for the community […]
United States, Alabama -
Water supplier to retain fluoride
After a months-long debate, including a lively public hearing, members of the North Baldwin Utilities board have voted to continue adding fluoride to the area’s water supply until the end of the year. The board’s decision is the latest move after it voted in September to end the utility’s 26-year practice of adding the chemical […]
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Port Hope: Decision to renew Operating Licence for Cameco’s Uranium Conversion Facility
The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) announced today its decision to renew the Nuclear Fuel Facility Operating Licence for Cameco Corporation’s facility located in Port Hope, Ontario. This decision was made following a 2-day public hearing held on October 4, 2006 in Ottawa, Ontario and November 28 and 29, 2006, in Port Hope, Ontario. The […]
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Port Hope: Reasons for Decision to renew Nuclear Fuel Facility Operating Licence for the Conversion Facility
Excerpts from: Record of Proceeding, Including Reasons for Decision In the Matter of Cameco Corporation Subject: Application to Renew the Class 1 B Nuclear Fuel Facility Operating Licence for the Conversion Facility Located in Port Hope, Ontario Hearing Dates: October 4 and November 28 and 29, 2006 Date of Decision: November 29, 2006 Date of […]
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Soldier in fluoride fight marches on
ORMOND BEACH — Clutching a fat stack of papers — most of them Web site printouts — Jim Schultz strode to the microphone in front of the Daytona Beach City Commission one evening last month, the highlight of his two-year campaign against fluoride. What the medical establishment considers one of its greatest public health achievements, […]
United States, Florida -
Need for fluoride questioned
Since 1963, the Town of Mount Desert has been adding toxins to its drinking water by public mandate, according to water district manager Paul Slack. It was 44 years ago when the town voted to added fluoride to the water, which supplies about 1,000 connections in Northeast Harbor and Seal Harbor. The intended purpose was […]
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South Bay’s water will be fluoridated with MWD deal
Fluoridated water will be flowing from South Bay taps this fall for the first time when a regional water supplier begins to add fluoride to the supplies it delivers to the six-county area in the cause of dental health. While Los Angeles and Long Beach have long had fluoridated water, smaller cities like those in […]
United States, California -
Metropolitan Water District Urged to Warn Customers of Fluoride Risks to Infants
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 21 — Plans to add fluoride to Southern Californians’ tap water this summer are raising concerns that parents may not know of the potential risks of using fluoridated water to mix infant formula. The Metropolitan Water District (MWD), which supplies 18 million people in six counties throughout the region, in July will […]
United States, California