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Coal Wastes and Fluoride
These two messages in from Bob Carton and the very high levels of fluoride that can leach out of coal wastes. The information comes from sources inside the US EPA. ——————————————- Folks, This is another overlooked or covered-up area of fluoride exposure. Fluoride was found as high as 812 mg/l ( 203 times the standard […]
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Debate turns to Hutts’ fluoride
The long-running controversy over whether Petone gets an unfluoridated water supply is threatening to reignite a much wider debate. An indication of how divisive it could become was given at Wednesday nights special meeting of Hutt City Council, which agreed to a deal with Wellington Regional Council to share the estimated $400,000 cost of reinstating […]
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San Diego City Council Defies Citizens Initiative: Votes to Fluoridate
On April 11, 2000 San Diego City Council voted 8 to 1 to defy the long-standing city ordinance that specifically prohibits the City of San Diego or any of its employees or elected officials from adding any fluoride compound to the drinking water. Citing a February 18 opinion by California Attorney General Bill Lockyer and […]
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Golding seeking fluoride approval in San Diego
San Diego Mayor Susan Golding will ask the City Council on Tuesday to approve a plan to add fluoride to the city’s drinking water to reduce tooth decay. “It’s a health issue,” Golding said in a telephone interview yesterday. “San Diego is the largest city in the country without community fluoridation.” Money to pay for […]
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Nuclear flasks fail safety test in new blow for BNFL
Flasks used by British Nuclear Fuels to transport dangerous radioactive material can resist fire for less than three minutes, newly released research reveals. The revelation will provide fresh headaches for the crisis-ridden BNFL, which runs a major business using the flasks. New safety regulations demanded by the United Nations mean that all the flasks will […]
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Norfluor Waste Shouldn’t Pave The City
Félix Pérez, a leader for the International Ecology Alliance for the Rio Grande, believes that it is crucial that the Norfluor chemical plant in Cd. Juárez, which has been at the heart of much controversy since it experienced two chemical leaks last fall, should either close down completely or be relocated. “While we can not […]
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CDC: Hip Fractures Are Increasing
ATLANTA (AP) – Hip fractures among women 65 and older have climbed 40 percent between 1988 and 1996, with about a third of older Americans suffering serious falls each year, the government said Thursday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention attributed the increase in part to a growing number of people 85 and older. […]
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Fluoride in our Water: Are We Brushing with Danger?
There’s a growing amount of evidence linking fluoride to cancer, osteoporosis and genetic damage. Most governments in Europe have banned it, yet Ireland continues to add tooth-preserving acid to the public water supply. Gemma O’Doherty reports Water fluoridation was once hailed as the saviour of our children’s teeth. But since it was introduced four decades […]
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Fluoridation in Ireland: Some Background
Some news here from Ireland. I visited Ireland March 10-15 (2000) and had a chance to talk about fluoride and meet up with the activists fighting fluoridation. Here’s some background. 1) In 1960, the Irish Parliament (the Dail) passed the Health (Fluoridation of Water Supplies) Act. This mandated that fluoride be added to the public […]
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EPA reports no environmental threat to farm area
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Environmental authorities found no immediate environmental threat to a rural area where farmers reported mysterious maladies that made them sick and killed their livestock, officials reported Wednesday. After a 14-month study, investigators from the federal Environmental Protection Agency found many of the problems to be associated with the way farmers manage their […]
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