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Chemifloc blamed for Shannon chemical spill
An Environmental Protection Agency investigation into a chlorine spill at the Chemifloc manufacturing facility in Shannon last December has found that the company stored materials incorrectly and wasn’t fully compliant with the conditions of its licence. Eight people were hospitalised following the incident at the plant in the Smithstown Industrial Estate on December 20 and […]
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Longford: Queries on water quality
Several councillors raised questions on the quality of water in the county, in particular the south Longford are at a recent meeting of Longford County Council. Cllr Barney Steele asked about the amount of chlorine used to treat water in the Ballymahon area. He said that he has received a number of complaints in relation […]
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Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan, TD, backing campaign to halt fluoridation
INDEPENDENT TD Michael Lowry has been ordered to change his Dail declaration following a complaint from Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan. … Meanwhile, Mr Flanagan is backing a campaign to halt the addition of fluoride to drinking water. Aisling Fitzgibbon has been seeking donations to help her to challenge the addition of “dangerous” chemicals to water. She […]
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County Kilkenny: Contaminants in water supply highlighted by EPA
Instances of lead, arsenic, fluoride and other contaminants were found on separate occasions in public water supplies around County Kilkenny in 2011, according to a report from the Environmental Protection Agency. According to the EPA’s annual report for 2011, which was published last week, there were instances of lead found in the old Castlecomer water […]
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Laois County: Calling time on fluoride
Laois county councillors want to abolish the practice of adding fluoride to drinking water. At their monthly meeting last week, Cllr Alan Hand requested the Council to call for the end of water fluoridation, as he had done the previous year. “Aproximately €4 million is spent nationally, 97 per cent of the EU doesn’t add […]
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Letter: Let’s not dilute the issue of our water fluoridation
An abridged version of an open letter and further correspondence to Dr Harry Comber, Director, National Cancer Registry Ireland. Cc: An Taoiseach Enda Kenny; Dr James Reilly, Minister for Health; Simon Coveney, Minister For Agriculture, Food and Fisheries; Phil Hogan, Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government; Dr Tony Holohan, Chief Medical Officer, HSE; Dr […]
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Water fluoridation-cancer link is ‘improbable’
Some maps contained in an all-Ireland cancer atlas published recently by the National Cancer Registry of Ireland (NCRI) and the Northern Ireland Cancer Registry (NICR) have been used erroneously by anti-fluoridation groups to suggest a link between water fluoridation and cancer, according to the two registries. The All-Ireland Cancer Atlas 1995-2007, in which these maps […]
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Experts reject anti-fluoride claims
CLAIMS that drinking water with added fluoride increases the risk of cancer have been rejected by an expert body. The National Cancer Registry issued the reassurance in response to the use of the All-Ireland cancer atlas by some campaigning anti-fluoride groups. The cancer atlas, drawn up by the Registry, maps cancer patterns in different areas […]
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We don’t need any extra fluoride in drinking water
Dear Editor, The issue in relation to fluoride is not whether it has an impact on dental decay. The issue is whether it should be put in the nation’s drinking water. Dental decay is not caused by a lack of fluoride, but by poor diet and inadequate dental hygiene. We are exposed to fluoride through […]
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Letter: End illicit medical assault on people of Ireland
The Dept of Health?s uncertainty about allowing prescription of clinically trialled cannabis-based medicinal products with acceptable side effect profile (Florian Scheibein IMN 16/7/2012) and recommended for approval by the European Medicines Agency for MS treatment, is at total variance with the Department?s absolute certainty in treating everyone via their tap water with a uniform dose […]
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