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Request A Test Offers New Fluoride Testing
Request A Test, a leading national provider of direct to consumer lab testing, has expanded their test offerings to include blood and urine fluoride testing. Fluoride is a mineral which can be beneficial in healthy amounts but can cause serious health complications if a person is over exposed. Testing a person’s fluoride levels can make […]
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Fluoride is Poisonous to Freesia
Excerpt: I’ve been browsing Art Wolk’s Bulb Forcing for Beginners and the Seriously Smitten (AAB Book Publishing Co., $32.95), and while his writing style is a little goofy, the information in it is mind-boggling. I’m on my third unsuccessful attempt at forcing freesia (one of the best-smelling flowers in the world), and wish I had […]
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Meda Acquires a New OTC Product Line in Dental Health
Meda (STO:MEDAA) has signed an agreement to acquire ZpearPoint AS, including global rights to its main product, EB24, an OTC [Over The Counter] line for treating dental erosion. Dental erosion is a common, growing condition that impacts all ages and for which there is currently no effective treatment. The condition is estimated to affect 15-50% […]
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Packaging plant penalized for alleged EPA violations
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that Pretium Packaging LLC will pay a $75,860 penalty to settle alleged violations of federal risk management requirements at a plastic bottle manufacturing plant in York County and a now-closed facility in Muscatine, Iowa. Pretium also has a plant in the Humboldt Industrial Park. EPA said in a press […]
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Dioxin found in buried barrels near Kadena
The Okinawa Defense Bureau recently found dioxin and other hazardous chemicals from barrels unearthed at a former U.S. military installation in the city of Okinawa, officials said Monday, suggesting they may have contained herbicides or agricultural chemicals. The bureau, however, said the possibility that the barrels were carrying defoliants used in the Vietnam War is […]
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Texas A&M Chemist Develops Way To Detect Fluoride in Water
A Texas A&M University chemist, Dr. Francois P. Gabbai, has developed an organometallic molecule that has the ability to emit fluorescence when mixed with water that contains fluoride — a discovery that can facilitate detecting fluoride in water. He has just received a $440,000 National Science Foundation grant to develop this new technology further. It […]
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Slovenian company develops method of reusing toxic fluoride byproducts
EMO-FRITE, a Slovenian private company that produces frits and enamels, has developed a method that reuses the toxic byproducts of ceramic and enamel products significantly reducing its environmental impact by as much as 90 percent. The process of producing enamel, frits, ceramic or porcelain glazes is a very toxic one, with chemical interaction creating byproduct […]
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Can enamels’ environmental impact truly be reduced?
Recycling the toxic fluoride by-products from the ceramic and enamel industry into high-quality reusable material reduces the process’ environmental impact, but their end of life disposal remains problematic. Enamel cookware is ubiquitous. The trouble is that enamels—like other vitreous substances, or frits, used in making porcelain or ceramic glazes—are produced through a process generating highly […]
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Does fluoridated water offer dental benefits or health risks?
The ongoing debate on fluoridation –the practice of adding fluoride to our tap water to prevent tooth decay– re-ignited as the City of Portland, Oregon, voted on this measure (the proposal failed by outstanding majority). While most of us take it for granted and it is recognized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention […]
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Fluoride-rinse maker expanding in Bustleton
Medical Products Laboratories Inc. has been approved for a $472,500 loan with an interest rate of 1.5 percent through the Pennsylvania Industrial Development Authority to help buy a building near its operations in the Bustleton section of Philadelphia. The privately held company will buy an existing 22,900-square-foot building as part of a $1.03 million project […]
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