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Survey Focuses On Health Woes, Not The Causes
PLANT CITY – There are shortcomings: The community health survey wasn’t designed by an epidemiologist, the responses are anecdotal, the ailments unconfirmed. The Tampa Tribune and WFLA, News Channel 8, survey of residents in the neighborhoods bordering Coronet Industries was an exercise in journalism, not science. We wanted to know what ailed people, not what […]
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Opponents grit teeth for fluoridation fight
Anti-fluoridation activist Betty Fowler hasn’t missed a Spokane Regional Board of Health meeting in seven years. Each month, she sits in the audience and waits for the end of the meeting when she speaks briefly against adding fluoride to public water systems. Next Thursday, her pet issue will be on the official agenda. Fluoridation is […]
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Rajasthan overcomes excess fluoride in drinking water
An innovative technology adopted by the Rajasthan Government’s Science and Technology Department to tide over the problem of excess fluoride in drinking water has started yielding positive results after about a decade. The water drawn in several fluoride-affected areas, where the technology was implemented, has been found fit for drinking. The department had initiated the […]
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An expert body, fluoridation and a ‘public health’ measure
On March 3 this year, Deputy Damien English put the following question to the Minister for Health: “Has the regulation amending the optimal level of fluoride in drinking water from between 0.8 to 1.0ppm to between 0.5 and 0.8ppm as recommended by the Forum on Fluoridation yet been implemented?” The Minister’s reply is too lengthy […]
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Obituary. Larry Gosnell, 1923-2004
Filmmaker and environmentalist Larry Gosnell died of natural causes in Toronto on March 23. He was 80. Air of Death, his most celebrated documentary for the CBC, triggered environmental awareness in Canada in 1967 when it revealed that fluoride fumes emitted by a Southern Ontario fertilizer plant were poisoning plants and livestock in the area. […]
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Fluoride Protest in Stroud
The Green Party is encouraging Stroud residents to make a stand against the proposed fluoridation of water supplies. Almost 2,000 yellow postcards stating opposition to the process and addressed to Severn Trent have been handed out to local residents over the last few weeks. Green Party spokesperson Phillip Booth said: “To medicate people without their […]
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Chippewa voters overwhelmingly reject fluoridation
Karen Polzin is happy a referendum to add fluoride to the Chippewa Falls public water supply was shot down by over a two-to-one margin Tuesday. “But it’s still just an advisory (vote),” said the fluoride opponent who lives at 405 W. Vine St. The Chippewa Falls City Council will make the final decision on the […]
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ConocoPhillips to pay $70 million to settle Florida pollution suits
PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) ConocoPhillips has tentatively agreed to pay $70 million to as many as 7,000 Florida Panhandle property owners who sued over pollution from the former site of a fertilizer plant. The agreement, which still needs a judge’s approval, would settle two lawsuits that contend that underground contamination has reduced property values and may […]
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ALERT: Avoid Feeding Babies Fluoridated Water
New York – April 5, 2005 – Infant formulas prepared with fluoridated water increase dental fluorosis risk, according to the April 2004 Journal of the American College of Nutrition(1) and other studies. To prevent this tooth staining, researchers caution against mixing infant formulas with fluoridated water. Fluorosis, white-spotted, yellow or brown stained, sometimes pitted or […]
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Phosphogypsum Regulations Are Appropriate
I write in response to Jeff Stidham’s March 28 commentary, “Making Something Of Florida’s `Mountains,’ ” an article about phosphogypsum stacks. Central Florida phosphogypsum is an acidic, radioactive industrial waste – a public health and environmental hazard that should continue to be prohibited by state and federal agencies for use in roadbeds and agricultural uses. […]
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