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Polk firm engineers new technology to capture HF
LAKELAND – Gases escaping from fertilizer company cooling ponds have been blamed for injuring orange trees and making cows teeth fall out after they eat tainted grass. But a Polk County company has invented a new way to recover a valuable commodity from the ponds, which DuPont says it is ready to buy. What’s more, […]
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Fluoride linked to bone cancer
A New Jersey Department of Health study says there may be a link between drinking fluoridated water and increased incidence of bone cancer in young men. The state Health Department says the results are not strong enough to stop fluoridation of drinking water — the key ingredient in preventing dental cavities in children. But a […]
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Rat Studies Link Brain Cell Damage With Aluminum and Fluoride in Water
ANAHEIM, Calif. – A team of New York scientists said rat studies offer preliminary evidence that aluminum, when administered in drinking water, may be linked with behavior changes and damaged brain cells. The study, presented at the meeting here of the Society for Neuroscience, is the latest of several studies hinting at some link between […]
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Alaska’s Fluoridation Accidents: 1984-1992
WHERE THE WATER TURNED DEADLY FLUORIDE SYSTEM WASN’T THE ONLY THING TO FAIL IN HOOPER BAY Anchorage Daily News David Hulen September 22, 1992 Let’s say that you were very thirsty and wanted to drink a glass of water and the owner of the household wanted for you to help yourself. As you take their […]
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Is Science Censored?
“Publicity … would certainly follow,” fretted the editor of one top journal. “A possible general panic,” predicted a researcher. Both were explaining why a study linking childhood leukemia to fluorescent lights should not be published. That fear trumped the conclusion of other reviewers-scientists who evaluate whether a manuscript should be published in a journal-who called […]
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A ‘Toxic Tour of Texas’
Rita Carlson often referred to herself as just a Texas City housewife, but that was only part of who she was. Before Carlson and her family moved to rural Illinois in April 1990, she also was the first president of Texas POWER, People Organized to Win Environmental Rights, a statewide coalition of grass-roots environmental groups, […]
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Burbank, California Admits to Lax Enforcement of Toxic Waste Rules
Burbank officials admitted Friday that a breakdown in monitoring and enforcement procedures led to a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency lawsuit which contends that the city allowed toxic wastes to be dumped into sewers. City Manager Bud Ovrom and Public Works Director Ora Lampman said Burbank didn’t crack down hard enough during the mid-1980s on industries […]
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Fluoridation Plan Divides Suffolk Residents
In the 1940’s, as municipalities around the country began putting fluoride into their water, opponents spoke darkly of Communists and said fluoridation was nothing less than a plot to control America through its faucets. The arguing died down in most places as studies began to show that fluoride did fight childrens’ tooth decay, and today, […]
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Fluoride bioassay study under scrutiny
A recent animal study by the National Toxicology Program that failed to give fluoride a totally clean bill of health is now being questioned as being maybe too lenient on the widely used tooth decay preventative. Also, a government panel appointed to assess the risks and benefits of human exposure to fluoride and to put […]
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Fluoride is not a nutrient
The full-article, with graphics, is online at http://fluoridealert.org/wp-content/uploads/passwater-1990.pdf Fluoride is essential for healthy and strong teeth, therefore fluoride is an essential nutrient – right? Wrong. wrong. wrong. Fluoride is not needed for strong, healthy teeth, fluoride is not an essential nutrient – in fact, fluoride is not even a nutrient. It does not nourish — […]
United States, National USA
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