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Another major warning signal
Dear All, Yesterday an abstract posted on PubMed sends yet another serious warning signal on the potential disastrous consequences of continuing to add fluoride to the public water supplies. Researchers at Indiana University in Bloomington, have found – using the FETAX test, one of the standard screening tests for teratogenicity (the ability to cause birth […]
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Fluoridation Nation
The irony of conventional wisdom is how much of it eventually gets debunked. Not long ago, schoolchildren were routinely sprayed with DDT to repel mosquitoes, pregnant women were given thalidomide to treat morning sickness, and people suffering from mental illness were lobotomized to calm them down. Before such practices were revealed as more injurious than […]
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Fluoride Omitted from Soil Testing Near Coronet
PLANT CITY – Soil tests in the vicinity of Coronet Industries have uncovered no unsafe levels of nearly a dozen pollutants, environmental officials announced Monday. The soil was tested for 11 inorganic compounds, including arsenic, cadmium, chromium, lead and boron. The levels detected were above what would be considered naturally occurring in Florida’s soil, but […]
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Companies skewed Pensacola pollution evidence
PENSACOLA, Fla. – Documents show companies sharing liability for pollution from a defunct fertilizer plant avoided expensive groundwater cleanup after presenting skewed or incomplete data to federal regulators, a newspaper reported Tuesday. As a result, arsenic, lead and other toxic chemicals may have seeped into Escambia County’s drinking water and will remain in an aquifer […]
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Lacking common sense
The fluoridation of Palm Beach County’s water became a fait accompli when county commissioners approved a measure calling for fluoride to be added to the county’s water supply. This newspaper actively called for a no-vote on the matter, however, commissioner’s voted 4-2 to approve adding what amounts to toxic waste to the water system. Commissioner’s […]
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Obituary. Herschel Horowitz, dental researcher and promoter of water fluoridation
Herschel S. Horowitz, 71, a dental researcher for the Public Health Service who crusaded internationally for adding fluoride to public water supplies to prevent tooth decay, died of pancreatic cancer Aug. 10 at his Bethesda home. Dr. Horowitz’s work at the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, where he was chief of community programs […]
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Conflict over fluoridation far from over
Most all of the cities in Davis County are fluoridated now, and even the lone hold-out — Layton — is knuckling under and installing fluoridation equipment. But just because the fluoridation order seems to be a done deal, fluoride foes aren’t just sitting back and grumbling about losing the battle. They still believe they can […]
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Palm Beach County water to get fluoride
WEST PALM BEACH — Within about a year, the county’s 400,000 water consumers will be sipping small doses of what some call a tooth-decay salve and others say is a government-endorsed poison. After about four hours of listening to county staff and county residents, medical experts and college professors, county commissioners voted 4-2 Tuesday to […]
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Pinellas joins the flow, adds fluoride
CLEARWATER – After decades of resisting one of the most recognized trends in preventing tooth decay, Pinellas County relented Tuesday and agreed to add fluoride to the bulk of the county’s water supply. County commissioners voted 6-1 in favor of fluoridating water that serves more than 600,000 of the county’s residents. St. Petersburg, Dunedin, Gulfport […]
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A debate in ‘Fluorida’?
Dear All, According to the article in today’s Sun-Sentinel which comes out of Palm Beach County, ‘Fluorida’ (the poison state), the “Officials plan for fluoride debate”. However there is one little snagg, we know that the officials have already made up their mind, and no matter what transpires in this “debate” they are going to […]
United States, Florida