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Lahore: Fluoride Tainted Water Cripples Villagers
LAHORE, Pakistan, (Sep. 7) IPS – Scores of children in this region of lush, green rice paddies are undergoing surgery for a crippling bone disease alleged to have been caused by industrial pollution of groundwater, in what is shaping up to be a major public health disaster. Even as the government denies that there is […]
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Poisoned Workers & Poisoned Places: Part I. Toxic Legacy (continued)
Chapter 4: Defining the danger From the earliest days of the nuclear weapons program, health and safety were secondary concerns. Officials at the Atomic Energy Commission recognized that they had to define and minimize the risks of the weapons-making process. But the White House, Congress and the Pentagon demanded that production run at a feverish […]
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Poisoned Workers & Poisoned Places: Part I. Toxic Legacy
Chapter 1: Secret program left toxic legacy The U.S. government secretly hired hundreds of private companies during the 1940s and ’50s to process huge volumes of nuclear weapons material, leaving a legacy of poisoned workers and contaminated communities that lingers to this day. From mom-and-pop machine shops to big-name chemical firms, private manufacturing facilities across […]
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EPA Urged to Review Fluoridation Standard
Sen. Bob Smith (R-N.H.), chairman of the Environment & Public Works committee, has asked EPA to review its standard for fluoride in drinking water because of some recent scientific reports showing potential adverse effects from fluoride exposure. In a letter to J. Charles Fox, EPA assistant administrator for water, Smith wrote, “I urge EPA to […]
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Just How Safe is Fluoride?
To most people, fluoride is a wholly beneficial chemical with no downside whatsoever. Its remarkably favourable public image is based on our trust of the dental profession which has been telling us since the 1950s that fluoride is good for our teeth and advising us to brush them with fluoride toothpaste and swallow fluoride tablets. […]
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Ohio Dialysis Accident Leaves 16 hospitalized, 1 Dead
YOUNGSTOWN: Sixteen people remained hospitalized yesterday with problems suffered when they received treatment at a dialysis center. A 57-year-old man died Wednesday after being treated at the Physicians Dialysis Center in Youngstown. One person was reported in critical condition at Northside Medical Center and two were listed as critical at St. Elizabeth Health Center. The […]
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Public Health Community Upset by Questions about Fluosilicic Acid
Over the past few months there has been an increasing number of questions put forth to the public health community concerning fluosilicic acid. Fluosilicic acid is the substance derived from the pollution scrubbing devices of the superphosphate fertilizer industry, 70 to 75% of which comes from the Cargill fertilizer corporation. But what, one might ask, […]
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Fluoride Backers Gaining Ground
Rosemary Minervini says she’s not a “fluorophobic.” The Orem resident and president of the Provo chapter of Citizens for Safe Drinking Water just wants the public to hear her side of the contentious water fluoridation debate. With roughly two months remaining before residents in Salt Lake and Davis counties vote on whether to fluoridate public […]
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Renal Care closes unit after death
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Renal Care Group Inc. said Friday that it closed an Ohio dialysis unit after a patient undergoing treatment there died and another 18 were hospitalized with chills and fever. The problem occurred Wednesday at the Youngstown unit and is being investigated by local, state and national authorities, including the U.S. Centers […]
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Oak Ridge: Lockheed Martin fined for significant deficiencies in its Hydrogen Fluoride Supply System
Lockheed Martin Nuclear Safety Violations (Oak Ridge, TN) Date: 08/28/2000 (Date of Fine) Misconduct Type: Labor Enforcement Agency: Energy Contracting Party: Energy Court Type: Administrative Amount: $1,045,000 Disposition: Fine Synopsis: Lockheed Martin Energy Systems was fined by the Department of Energy for multiple violations of nuclear safety requirements at its site in Oak Ridge, TN. […]
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