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Environment Southland wants change to Tiwai Point environmental management
Results of the independent monitoring undertaken earlier this year at Tiwai Point, to fill gaps Environment Southland identified in New Zealand Aluminium Smelters’ data, confirmed its initial understanding of numerous legacy and ongoing sources of contamination to the environment. The regional council wants the site to be managed as a whole to meet contemporary expectations […]
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High Court Finds Ashley Bloomfield’s Fluoride Directive Unlawful
A High Court decision issued last Friday in the New Health New Zealand vs the Director General of Health (DG) case, found that the DG acted unlawfully because he had failed to consider the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act (BORA) before he mandated 14 Councils to put fluoride into their communities’ drinking water. He was required by law […]
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Bloomfield’s fluoridation orders unlawful, court rules
Orders to add fluoride to more than a dozen drinking water supplies have been ruled unlawful by the High Court, likely delaying plans for a significant expansion of fluoridation. In July 2022, then Director-General of Health Sir Ashley Bloomfield directed 14 councils to fluoridate some or all of their drinking water supplies. He did so […]
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Branson aldermen to consider fluoride removal Tuesday
The Branson Board of Aldermen will be discussing at their Tuesday, Nov. 14 meeting the removal of fluoride from the city’s water supply. Branson city leaders held a special meeting on Thursday, July 13, to hear opinions related to fluoride in the city’s water supply, and on July 28 opened a State of Missouri required […]
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Dallas City Council Member says fluoride will not be removed from Dallas water supply
DALLAS — Despite being recommended by the American Dental Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics and a lengthy list of other medical experts and groups, a Dallas City Council committee recently held a briefing to discuss the city’s practice of adding fluoride to the water supply. The chair of that committee, Council Member Adam Bazaldua, […]
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Dr. Robert Dickson on water fluoridation
Calgary water fluoridation. The issue that just won’t go away.
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Fluoride’s future in doubt in Lebanon
Fluoride may face an uncertain future in Lebanon’s drinking water. That’s because the Lebanon City Council approved a motion this week to consider asking the voters next year whether the mineral should be eliminated from the city’s water supply. The motion doesn’t mean the council will automatically approve a measure for the ballot, just that […]
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High Fluoride Content, Uranium Radiation Put Hyderabad at Thyroid Cancer risk: Study
Hyderabad: High fluoride content in groundwater and environmental radiation due to substantial uranium reserves in eastern Hyderabad and Nalgonda are resulting in thyroid cancers (malignancies), a study by AIIMS (All India Institute of Medical Sciences), Bibinagar, found. The study found that most thyroid swellings were benign, but there was a higher incidence of malignancies, at […]
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Kids Exposed to Fluoride Scored Lower on Cognitive Tests, Study Finds
Researchers from Tulane University linked high fluoride levels in wells to cognitive deficits in children in Ethiopia, finding more impairment with greater exposure. The study adds to concerns over fluoride’s neurotoxicity, especially for early brain development. Children with chronic exposure to high levels of fluoride in drinking water made more errors on drawing and cognitive […]
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To Fluoride or not? Opponents present to city council after calls to ‘hear both sides’
Fluoride has been in Dallas’s water since 1966, following the trend of most U.S. cities who add the mineral to water sources to help fight tooth decay in the population. Opponents of fluoride presented to the city’s Quality of Life, Arts and Culture Committee Tuesday morning, after an October presentation on the benefits of the mineral […]
United States, Texas