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Debate turns to Hutts’ fluoride
The long-running controversy over whether Petone gets an unfluoridated water supply is threatening to reignite a much wider debate. An indication of how divisive it could become was given at Wednesday nights special meeting of Hutt City Council, which agreed to a deal with Wellington Regional Council to share the estimated $400,000 cost of reinstating […]
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New Zealand: Uptake of fluoride into developing sheep teeth, following the 1995 volcanic eruption of Mt Ruapehu
Abstract: In the southern Spring of 1995 (mid-October) the active volcano Mt Ruapehu in the central North Island of New Zealand erupted explosively, spreading up to 40 million m3 of rhyolite tephra over thousands of km2 of farmland during the lambing season. This ash contained a high concentration of soluble fluoride, and more than 2000 […]
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Fluoride to stay in Auckland water
Auckland’s water supply will continue to be fluoridated, the Auckland Regional Council decided at a works committee meeting yesterday. The decision to continue with fluoridation was taken after the meeting was disrupted by an unsuccessful attempt from a Browns Bay woman, Patricia Cheel, to present an anti-fluoridation petition. The chairman of the committee, Mr Gary […]
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Contamination of forest ecosystems by sodium fluoroacetate (Compound 1080)
Abstract Predictive and conceptual models are used to examine the contamination, toxicology, and residues of sodium fluoroacetate (Compound 1080) in relation to its application in vertebrate pest control programmes on forest and pastoral lands. As a pesticide, the toxin appears to be neither mobile nor persistent. Exceedingly slender opportunities exist therefore for significant contamination of […]
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