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Bishopville to stop adding fluoride to water
BISHOPVILLE – Water – it runs from every spigot, every faucet, every shower head. And in Bishopville, it soon will become more natural. At the end of June, Bishopville will discontinue adding fluoride to its water, a practice that started more than 30 years ago. The American Dental Association began promoting adding fluoride to town […]
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Dentists Unkowingly Endorse Arsenic and Lead Into Our Drinking Water
NEW YORK, June 21 /PRNewswire/ — Without residents’ consent, dentists in little towns, big cities and some states convince trusting legislators to add fluoride, claimed to reduce tooth decay, into water supplies. However, the fluoride treatment chemicals used are contaminated with lead, arsenic and other toxic industrial by-products. According to the National Sanitation Foundation (NSF), […]
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Fort Collins Water Board Recommends Ending Fluoridation
As communities up and down the Front Range face off on fluoride, Fort Collins is preparing to put a team in place to tackle the contentious issue. The move comes three months after the city’s water board recommended the city stop fluoridating its water supply. City Manager John Fischbach has asked the Larimer County Department […]
United States, Colorado -
Mining Threat
The Florida agency known as DEP needs a reminder that the P stands for protection, not permissiveness. Officials with the Department of Environmental Protection say they will approve a phosphate mining permit on 2,400 acres of ranch land in Manatee County, including part of a creek that feeds a public water supply and nourishes Charlotte […]
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Fluoridation foes bare teeth
Tuesday, June 19, 2001 – BOULDER – Retired dentist Henry Eaton was called a communist in this city’s first war over fluoride. Eaton’s side won – city water was fluoridated – but now the battle lines are being drawn again in Boulder and in other Front Range cities over the government’s role in keeping teeth […]
United States, Colorado -
Moratorium on Requirement to Fluoridate Drinking Water
The Minister of Health, Nissim Dahan, has ordered that the ruling requiring municipalities to add fluoride to their drinking water at their own expense, be put on hold until such time as a re-assessment has been carried out by the Health Ministry to determine if this measure is necessary. The regulation, instituted by Dahan’s predecessor, […]
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Montreal targeted with Fluoridation Plan
MONTREAL – Almost one in two children entering kindergarten in Quebec has cavity-ridden teeth, according to a public health study released yesterday. The number is twice that of Ontario children, according to researchers. Dr. Jean-Marc Brodeur, the study’s author, said ignoring problems with children’s teeth was storing up trouble for the future. “The population certainly […]
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Opposition builds to stop mine
The two-lane country road rambles through rural Manatee County, abruptly veering to the right at a ranch fence. Beyond the fence lies a broad pasture, flat as a plank, where rust-colored cattle loll in the shade of the occasional oak. Far from the highway a modest stream trickles southward, its flow fed by ditches dug […]
Phosphate Industry -
Fluorosis, the unnoticed scourge
NEW DELHI: With 66.62 million people afflicted, fluorosis has surprisingly attracted little more than a cursory attention from experts and health planners, says a new publication on the subject. “It is rather striking to note that even after six decades, the disease characteristics reported in the early reports are still valid, though we now have […]
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Mulberry bailout tops $1M
MANATEE COUNTY — Florida taxpayers continue to pay thousands of dollars a day to prevent an environmental disaster at two bankrupt fertilizer plants, a report released this week shows. And the bills continue to mount as the state looks for ways to clean up the mess that Mulberry Corp. left behind when financial ruin forced […]
United States, Florida Phosphate Industry