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Yorktown Board Holds Flouride Hearing Tuesday Night
YORKTOWN, N.Y. – Yorktown’s Town Board will hold an informational hearing Tuesday night to consider discontinuing the practice of adding fluoride to the drinking water supply. The topic has sparked passionate responses from many Yorktown residents and garnered attention from anti-fluoride organizations throughout the nation. In an informal poll posted on The Yorktown Daily Voice, 38 […]
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Tarpon Springs. Fluoride: A Further Response to an Answered Question
n April of 2012 the Tarpon Springs City Commission voted to fluoridate the water supply. The measure has already been voted on, and with a unanimous vote, little can be done about it. Last week at our first candidates forum I was asked my opinion on the matter. I spoke truthfully and expressed my disagreement […]
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New fluorine nanoscale coating: “Can’t Touch This”
Scientists at the University of Michigan have teamed up with the Air Force to create a superomniphobic material coating that repels, well, pretty much everything. The research was published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, on January 16, 2013. Spill a glass of wine, a spatter of oil, a slosh of hydrochloric acid and emerge stain- […]
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Westmoreland customers getting fluoride out of their water
With a few twists of his wrist, Charles Gallo of Ligonier Township says he can protect himself from a harmful substance in his drinking water. He recently attached a reverse-osmosis purification device to his kitchen tap to rid his water of fluoride. He and about 1,500 Ligonier Valley customers of the Municipal Authority of Westmoreland […]
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New Shape for the Bauxite and Alumina Industry
Bauxite and Alumina 8th Edition The shape and dynamics of the global bauxite and alumina industry are changing, according to a new report from Roskill. New alumina refining and bauxite production capacity will boost supply over the next five years to meet the rising demand for aluminium, mainly from China, but also other growth areas such […]
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Toowoomba: Fluoride decision yet to be made
MAYOR Paul Antonio has issued a stern warning to councillors over “premature discussion” about a impending decision about the region’s water fluoridation program. Conjecture about the approaching verdict began after a public Twitter post by Cr Nancy Sommerfield last Monday. “I will be urging TRC to stop fluoridating Toowoomba’s water,” she posted. “(Ninety-eight per cent) […]
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Ohioans’ lawsuits blame diseases on DuPont
26 lawsuits here cite chemical that plant discharged into river Hundreds of people in southern Ohio who say a DuPont chemical plant across the Ohio River contaminated their water and caused their health problems are suing the company in federal court in Columbus. They say that C8, a chemical used to make Teflon at the […]
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Water fluoridation: Action Network criticizes JADA authors
NEW YORK, N.Y., USA: The Fluoride Action Network (FAN) has criticized the authors of an article recently published in the Journal of the American Dental Association (JADA). It has accused Drs. Molly L.R. Melbye and Jason M. Armfield of urging dentists to promote fluoridation even though many of them are not well informed about the […]
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Windsor: Council meeting to debate fluoridation
Recently grabbing a tube of toothpaste for his young kids off a store shelf, Mayor Eddie Francis said the product label read: “Fluoride-free – safe to swallow.” For the past six decades, Windsor has been adding fluoride to the municipal water supply in order for people to gulp it down with each drink poured from […]
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Simultaneously evaluate the toxic levels of fluoride and arsenic species in underground water of Tharparkar and possible contaminant sources: A multivariate study.
Abstract The present study investigated total arsenic (tAs), inorganic arsenic (iAs) species and fluoride ion (F) contamination in underground water of Mithi and Nangarparkar subdistricts of Tharparkar, Pakistan. Statistical parameters, principal component analysis, cluster analysis, sodium absorption ratio and saturation indices (SI) were used to detect interrelation and sources of concentration of tAs, iAs species […]
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