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Nader Says EPA Underestimates Water Intake
WASHINGTON – The Environmental Protection Agency has set drinking water contamination standards that underestimate how much water some people drink, according to consumer activist Ralph Nader and an agency employees union. “This policy needs to be re-evaluated,” Nader said in a letter to EPA Administrator Lee M. Thomas released Saturday. Nader said EPA has set […]
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Mystery cloud leads to search of records
TAMPA – State environmental officials Friday began searching through records of a phosphate company and interviewing Polk County residents who said they became ill after breathing fumes from a mile-long gas cloud. State officials said US Agri-Chemical company near Fort Meade may be responsible for causing the gas cloud Wednesday over parts of Polk and […]
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The Science and Politics of Fluoride
Dental and medical groups have been battling anti-fluoridationists since the first dose of fluoride was metered into the water of Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1945. For decades, it seemed that dentistry was winning those battles – that science was prevailing over the rhetoric of the antifluoridationists. Today the battle lines are not so clearly drawn. […]
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Vikane: Exterminator, 2 Employes Indicted in 2 Va. Deaths
Note from FAN: Vikane is Sulfuryl Fluoride, it’s molecular structure is: The Orkin Exterminating Co. Inc. and two of its employes were indicted today on two counts each of involuntary manslaughter in the deaths of a Southwest Virginia couple allegedly poisoned by a fumigant sprayed at their house, the Grayson County, Va., prosecutor said. A […]
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Water Fluoridation Challenged
Fluoridation of water, long credited with the large decline in tooth decay in much of the world during recent decades, might actually have played only a minor role, an Australian public health researcher has concluded after reviewing many previous studies. However, an official of the American Dental Association challenged the interpretation, asserting that many studies […]
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Phosphate, cattle deaths link explored
Normally, George Elder’s Brahman calves are worth $500 at birth. And during some 30 years he has lost only one calf at birth. This year, however, three calves have died shortly after birth and another three have been born almost too weak to nurse. Preliminary autopsy reports from a state lab indicate a combination of […]
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Keysville air quality to be monitored
The state department of Environmental Regulation will put monitoring equipment in the Keysville area to test air quality there, residents were told Friday night. Dr. Rick Garrity, district manager of DER’s office in Tampa, told about a dozen Keysville residents that the mobile air monitoring equipment would be available in early April for about three […]
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How much fluoride is too much?
The Environmental Protection Agency has stirred the hornet’s nest of fluoridation by seeking to double the maximum allowable amount of the mineral in the nation’s water supply – a move that is drawing sharp criticism as a possible health hazard. “I don’t think the law really allows them to do this,” says Jackie Warren, a […]
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EPA Recommends Raising Fluoride Limits
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 — The Environmental Protection Agency today proposed a new standard that would double the maximum permissible level of fluoride in the nation’s drinking water supplies. The new maximum, four milligrams to a liter of water, is well above levels that can cause dental fluorosis, which results in discoloration, mottling and pitting of […]
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NRDC: “No Justification” for Relaxing Fluoride’s Maximum Contaminant Level
WASHINGTON, June 20 /PRN/ — In a statement to the Center For Health Action, Jacqueline Warren, senior counsel for the Natural Resources Defense Council and a member of the National Drinking Water Advisory Council, expressed serious reservations about the legalities and evidence for proposing a 4-parts-per-million (ppm) standard for fluoride. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency […]
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