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Candidates Challenged to Recognize Link Between Healthy Children and Healthy Environment; Some Respond
Washington, DC — At a news conference at the National Press Club this morning, several national organizations released the results of a challenge to Presidential candidates to reveal how they would protect children from environmental hazards. Every major Presidential candidate is on record as saying they would give children’s health and well-being a high priority […]
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Fluoride Panel Doesn’t Convince Council Members
A panel of doctors, dentists and Ph.D.s were unable to find common ground this week while debating the benefits of adding fluoride to the community’s drinking water. That left Wellington’s newest council members doubtful about last year’s vote, before they were elected, to fluoridate Wellington’s water. Councilwoman Linda Bolton and Councilman Mark Miles want a […]
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Fluoridated water a major health risk, says doctor
IRELAND’S water supply contains poisonous substances and poses a major health threat, according to a national health watchdog. Dr Elizabeth Cullen, of the Irish Doctors Environmental Association (IDEA), has demanded that the practice of adding fluoride to water be stopped immediately. She said there was no evidence to show people were deficient in fluoride, and […]
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Foundation for Fluoridation: Fractured
The featured Cover Story of the July 2000 Journal of the American Dental Association (JADA) is a 13 page article authored by John Featherstone, M.Sc., Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Preventive and Restorative Dental Sciences and Department of Dental Public Health and Hygiene, University of California, San Francisco. If that sounds like a mouthful, […]
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The Wellington Debate on Fluoridation
On Tuesday, nine months after the Wellington Village Council initially approved putting fluoride in the village water supply, over 100 residents and experts gathered in the Wellington Community Center to debate the idea. Mayor Tom Wenham started the meeting off by thanking everyone for coming. He introduced the council members who were in attendance. After […]
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Greens Step Up Anti-Fluoridation Battle
As ministers prepare to give the go-ahead to water fluoridation, the Green Party has signalled its intention to step up campaigning against it. The Greens argue that: * Fluoride is linked to a range of adverse health effects. * Mass medication is medically unethical and an infringement of individual liberty. * Education, not fluoridation, is […]
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Defluoridation in drinking waters
Abstract Although water supplies containing excessive amount of fluoride are generally very rare worldwide, there are locations in Turkey where drinking water contains very high fluoride concentrations. Especially in the middle and eastern part of Turkey, some mineral and drinking waters contain very high fluoride concentrations. It is a well known fact that drinking water […]
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Fluoride Backers Push For Davis County Vote
FARMINGTON — The Davis County Board of Health is not about to give up thefight for fluoride. In a letter authorized at a special board meeting Friday, chairwoman Beth Beck asked the Davis County Commission to consider new arguments for putting fluoride on the Nov. 7 ballot. “I’m hopeful,” Beck said. “The commission wants to […]
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Fluoride Backers Push For Davis County Vote
FARMINGTON — The Davis County Board of Health is not about to give up thefight for fluoride.In a letter authorized at a special board meeting Friday, chairwoman Beth Beck asked the Davis County Commission to consider new arguments for putting fluoride on the Nov. 7 ballot. “I’m hopeful,” Beck said. “The commission wants to put […]
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EPA to review contamination from Idaho phosphorous plants
The Shoshone-Bannock tribes have convinced the Environmental Protection Agency to take a second look at soil and water contamination from two phosphorous plants that operate within or near their reservation’s borders. The federal agency will review cleanup plans for the Superfund site that includes the plants run by FMC, now called Astaris, and the J.R. […]
United States, Idaho Phosphate Industry