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Fluoroform (CF3H): Researchers turn harmful greenhouse gas into a tool for making pharmaceuticals
A team of chemists at USC has developed a way to transform a hitherto useless ozone-destroying greenhouse gas that is the byproduct of Teflon manufacture and transform it into reagents for producing pharmaceuticals. The team will publish their discovery in a paper entitled “Taming of Fluoroform (CF3H): Direct Nucleophilic Trifluoromethylation of Si, B, S and […]
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Laois County: Calling time on fluoride
Laois county councillors want to abolish the practice of adding fluoride to drinking water. At their monthly meeting last week, Cllr Alan Hand requested the Council to call for the end of water fluoridation, as he had done the previous year. “Aproximately €4 million is spent nationally, 97 per cent of the EU doesn’t add […]
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Columbia: Local Advocates and Protestors of Fluoride Deeply Divided
COLUMBIA – Many U.S. cities use fluoride in the water supply to prevent tooth decay, and have for decades, but some Columbia residents want the chemical out of their water. Amy Bremer, a chemical engineer, is one resident that recently brought the issue of fluoride to the Columbia City Council. Bremer claims the practice of […]
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Kirkland Lake council votes to end fluoride in town’s water supply
Kirkland Lake council unanimously voted in favour of motion not to add fluoride to the town’s water. The town had stopped adding fluoride to the water Sept. 28 because the fluoridation system could not longer be operated safely. The cost of replacing fluoridation tanks is estimated to be between $360,000 and $375,000. Cost was not […]
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Ormond tables fluoridation vote
ORMOND BEACH — The city’s fluoride saga continues. Commissioners Tuesday night voted against an ordinance that would have asked Ormond voters to decide whether the city should take the cavity-fighting material, in the form of hydrofluorosilicic acid, out of the water supply. The mail ballot election would have taken place in March 2013 and would […]
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Pine Island: Deadline for fluoride ballots Dec. 6
The deadline for ballots to be returned to the Greater Pine Island Water Association concerning whether or not residents want the fluoride level to be increased to 0.7 ppm is this week. President Mike Faulkner said the ballots must be returned to the water company by 3 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 6. He said the ballots […]
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Slater Council discusses fluoride at water plant
… Assistant City Administrator Gene Griffith spoke about the water plant, and the council discussed fluoride in the water. Fluoride is currently added to the water at the water plant. This treatment was started before fluoride toothpastes and mouthwashes were available, according to Allegri and city attorney Pat Cronan. The council plans to hold public […]
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Letter from Aucoin: Unanswered questions about fluoride in Franklin
Note: This letter was originally received by the Board of Health on August 23, 2012 and has received no response: “In light of your decision last year to continue fluoridating Franklin inhabitants through the public water supply, medical best practice principles require that you provide Franklin parents with dosage information. “As you are aware, recent […]
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Editorial: Ormond should get past fluoridation questions
It appears that Ormond Beach is going to have a re-do on the issue of fluoridation of water — 55 years after the city got voters’ approval for fluoridation. Insistent complaints may force city government to have another public referendum on the issue. The mail-in referendum could cost taxpayers more than $45,000. But the real […]
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Rockhampton: Legislation changes about fluoride hailed answer to prayers
COUNCILLOR Glenda Mather has described the State Government’s changes to fluoride legislation as “an answer to a prayer”. The State Government last week passed an amendment which Health Minister Lawrence Springborg said would restore control of fluoride management to local goverments. Cr Mather was one of 50 people who gathered outside City Hall in 2009 […]
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