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Toowoomba: Council delays fluoride decision
TOOWOOMBA Regional Council will not make a decision on whether to retain fluoride in Toowoomba’s drinking water until early next year. Mayor Paul Antonio welcomed the State Government’s decision to give Queensland councils the final say on whether to fluoridate water supplies. However, he said council would not be able to make a decision until […]
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Cornwall: Council is considering removing fluoride from drinking water
City council is considering removing fluoride from our drinking water, after a vote doing just that was deferred for the time being Monday night. City councillors want Eastern Ontario Health Unit medical officer of health Dr. Paul Roumeliotis to return to city hall and provide more information on hydrofluorosilicic acid – the compound that is […]
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Campbell Newman gives councils responsibility for fluoridation
PREMIER Campbell Newman says he supports fluoridation but councils should be able to decide if it is in their water supply not the State Government. It is one of a number of decisions and powers handed back to local government since the Newman Government took office in April. During the election, Mr Newman campaigned on […]
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Athens County residents file C8-related lawsuits
Four Athens County residents filed lawsuits last week in Athens County Common Pleas Court against E.I. DuPont De Nemours & Co., over the company’s contamination of drinking-water supplies with C8, a chemical used in the manufacturing of Teflon at a DuPont plant in West Virginia. The four largely identical complaints, filed by West Virginia attorney […]
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Fluoride-hit Fazilka to get water from Rajasthan throughout the year
For the residents of Punjab’s Fazilka district hit by high level of fluoride in groundwater, there is some good news. The Rajasthan government has decided to release water to Gang canal that supplies water to Fazilka and nearby areas throughout the year. Earlier, the water was only for the six months — March to September […]
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Why Pulaski pulled the plug on fluoride
Pulaski, N.Y. — A decade ago, it was not uncommon for Harlow Dunton to look into the mouth of a 6-year-old and find a tooth so rotted and infected that he’d have to pull it. That changed for the village of Pulaski dentist after 2005, when the village began adding fluoride to its water supply. […]
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China Fluorine Chemical Industry Analysis to 2015 in New Research Report
Fluorine chemical industry treats fluorite as main raw material, with downstream products embracing inorganic fluoride and organic fluoride. China’s recoverable reserves of fluorite merely accounts for about one-tenth of the world total, but the output occupies the first position with a proportion of more than 50%. Since 2010, China has tightened control over fluorite mining […]
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Councils struggle with fluoride dosage with 18 instances of under-dosing in 2012
AUTHORITIES are still struggling to deliver the correct amount of fluoride in water supplies, with 18 instances of under-dosing this year. Residents of Murgon, within the South Burnett Regional Council area, went without any fluoride at all in this year’s second quarter as the dosing unit remained offline for maintenance. South Burnett recorded five instances […]
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Nudgee LNP MP Jason Woodforth claims 31 MPs want fluoride out of Queensland water
MORE than a third of Newman Government MPs are behind a push to rid the state’s water supply of fluoride, according to its main opponent. First-term Nudgee LNP MP Jason Woodforth claims he has secured the backing of 31 MPs who “don’t agree with mass medicating people” and want the “brain-altering poison” removed. The Newman […]
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Cornwall: Fluoride issue comes back to council Monday
The polarizing issue of whether or not Cornwall should be adding fluoride to its drinking water returns to city hall Monday. Council will receive a report from environment manager Morris McCormick, which looks to summarize the mechanisms the city uses to actually add the chemical to our water. McCormick’s report does not take a position […]
Canada, Ontario