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Public officials should honor fluoridation vote
There are a lot of fine people living in Clearfield, and among them are some pretty sharp members of the city council. We’ve dealt with them over the years and found them to be pretty straight shooters. We’ve also dealt with the leaders of the Davis County Board of Health and found them to be […]
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Lead poisoning is no child’s play
Lead poisoning continues to pose the most serious environmental health hazard to children in the United States, scientists say. The warning comes a month before the release of a study to be published in the journal Public Health Reports, which found that health problems associated with lead can occur at much lower levels of exposure […]
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Hudson County: Next in Line for Fluoridation?
…clothes or food, much less toothpaste,” said Dr. Kavita Ghai, a Union City dentist and one of many medical professionals in the state clamoring to add fluoride to the water supply. “Fluoridated water is needed here. . . . if we had fluoride in the water, it would save not only children, but adults and […]
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Galloway New Jersey to Return to Fluoride Free Water
GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP — Atlantic City’s award-winning water isn’t clean enough for Galloway Township resident Robert R. Reyers. It’s not the water itself Reyers doesn’t like. After all, the city’s tap water earned honors last month in the Berkeley Springs International Water Tasting Awards, held in Berkeley Springs, W.Va., and has won three gold medals in […]
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Fluoridated Water Called an Environmental Poison
HANOVER, New Hampshire, March 20, 2001 (ENS) – A research team led by Dartmouth College professor Roger Masters charges that fluoridated drinking water is linked to higher blood levels of lead in children. Sodium fluoride, first added to public drinking water in 1945, is now used in less than 10 percent of fluoridation systems nationwide, […]
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Fluoride Accumulations Killing Fish, Pine Trees, and Poisoning Environment
Although the first public drinking water supply in this country was fluoridated 56 years ago, the impact of fluoride on the environment has only recently begun to be studied. Unlike health impacts, which have been the subject of hundreds of research articles by university scientists published in academic journals worldwide, the buildup of fluoride in […]
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Bennington considers water fluoridation
BENNINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A state official says that dental decay at the high school serving Bennington can be attributed to a lack of fluoride in public water supply. A 1994 survey of nine high schools found that students at Mount Anthony Union High School had an average of seven decayed, missing and filled surfaces […]
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Piney Point: Phosphate plants under close eye
It’s not like you can padlock the doors and walk away. The complexities of keeping a phosphate processing plant operating are becoming clear to government regulators now overseeing two of them. Ponds full of 1.5 billion gallons of acid and three mountains of radioactive waste mean you just can’t shut off the machinery and turn […]
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Dartmouth researcher warns of chemicals added to drinking water
MARCH 15, 2001 — In a recent article in the journal NeuroToxicology, a research team led by Roger D. Masters, Dartmouth College Research Professor and Nelson A. Rockefeller Professor of Government Emeritus, reports evidence that public drinking water treated with sodium silicofluoride or fluosilicic acid, known as silicofluorides (SiFs), is linked to higher uptake of […]
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Clearfield vows to help anti-fluoridation efforts
CLEARFIELD — The City Council pledged Tuesday to help any citizens group that will organize a campaign to stop fluoridation of Davis County drinking water. The council passed a resolution Tuesday offering city support, assistance and free legal counsel to any group that will try to stop Davis County fluoridation before the plan is implemented […]
United States, Utah
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