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South Africa: Paediatricians recommend parents give children tablets with 0.25 mg of fluoride from birth to 3 years
Article title: Consistency, regular brushing key to children’s dental care Parents usually just have to try, and then try again, to figure out the best way to get their children to brush their teeth. The most important thing, though, is consistency and brushing them at least once a day. That alone dramatically reduces the risk […]
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South Africa: SepFluor unveils fluorspar mining/beneficiation development plans
Johannesburg, South Africa. 23 May 2012. SepFluor Limited (SepFluor), the new name in fluorspar mining and beneficiation in South Africa, has unveiled plans for the development of its first fluorspar mine, 80 kilometres north of Pretoria, together with a fluoro-chemical beneficiation hub near Bronkhorstpruit. The two projects represent total capital investment of some R2.1 billion, […]
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Gauteng: Reeling from the Effects of Water Fluoridation
Gauteng health MEC Brian Hlongwa gave over R1,8million worth of mobile dental clinics to treat dental caries caused by decades of water fluoridation in the Odi District. The mobile clinics are equipped with drilling and X-ray machines, dental chairs and lights, water tanks and generators. At an event held in Mabopane yesterday, Hlongwa said the […]
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Enviro study under way for $72 US million hydrofluoric acid plant
An environmental-impact assessment was under way for the proposed R500-million hydrofluoric acid (HF) project, earmarked for Richards Bay, Vergenoeg fluorspar mine GM Dennis Cooke told Mining Weekly Online on Tuesday. Cooke said that the HF project was an import-substitution initiative that would require 70 000 t of fluorspar a year. The tonnage of fluorspar would, […]
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Development under toxic cloud in Port Elizabeth
WHILE the rest of the world, including thousands of the world‘s leading scientists, politicians and economists, are scrambling to come up with solutions to what is potentially the biggest crisis we have ever faced in global warming, the Coega Development Corporation seems to know better than everyone else. Faced with increasing public concern and protest, […]
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Plan to dose tap water with fluoride
The Department of Health is back from the drawing board, determined to force all big towns and cities to dose their drinking water with fluoride. And while government dentists believe the move is necessary to protect children’s teeth, the international scientific community remains sharply divided about the potential for long-term harm to elderly people, the […]
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Nuclear death probe – but family in the dark
For four years, Clive Motha has wanted to know why his son Victor collapsed in the dining room of their Mamelodi house. Now there is an inquiry into Victor’s death. But more than a month after the investigation was announced, Motha hasn’t even heard from the investigators. In fact, he learnt about the investigation only […]
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Endangered birds at risk after pipeline leak
Hundreds of birds, some of them on the Red Data (endangered) list, could be affected by a massive pump failure on the Richards Bay pipeline, which pumps effluent into the sea. As a consequence of the accident, a destination which has proved that a good working relationship between industry, tourism and conservation is possible, also […]
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Unintended consequences
A new science-based report on the mass fluoridation of South African drinking water has raised several red flags – including extra health risks for tens of thousands of HIV/Aids sufferers, kidney patients, the elderly and other “sensitive” groups. Many of the potential costs – to people, the environment and the economy – have not been […]
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CSIR warns aginst fluoride in water
The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research warned yesterday about plans to add fluoride to South Africa’s drinking water, saying it posed a possible health risk to people with HIV and Aids, as well as those suffering from malnutrition. Briefing Parliament’s water affairs portfolio committee, Bettina Genthe, a water analysis expert with Environmentek, a business […]
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