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• Ballina-Lismore: Opponents say fluoride fight is far from over

  The fight against the fluoridation of much of the region’s water supply is far from over, according to opponents. A new association has been formed called Fluoride Free Northern Rivers, and a public meeting will held at the Lismore Bowling Club on 31 July to discuss tactics and provide information about fluoride. Association member Al […]

• Minerals and Salts of Fluoride Industry — Highly Utilized Chemical Reagents: Report

  Fluoride has the chemical formula F-. It is an inorganic, monatomic anion of fluorine. Minerals and salts of fluoride are highly utilized chemical reagents in the industry. They are adopted in the manufacture of hydrogen fluoride. Hydrogen fluoride is used in the petrochemical, plastics and chemical industries. It goes into the manufacture of sodium fluoride, […]

• We love our tea but could it be damaging our health?

  Fancy a cuppa? Milk and sugar? Flouride [sic] with that? A new scientific study claims that tea made with flouridated [sic] tap water is hazardous to health and that Irish people are most in danger. Research published this month, in the Swiss-based International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, reveals excessive fluoride levels in […]

• Journal says role of vitamin D, calcium in curing osteoporosis a fallacy

  An article in the British Medical Journal has accused academics and researchers in international osteoporosis foundations heavily funded by supplement manufacturers of wrongly promoting the use of calcium and vitamin D supplements for treating osteoporosis despite evidence piling up since 2002 that they have no positive effects on osteoporosis in the elderly, and could even […]

• Bill would lower fluoride levels

  HARTFORD — Lawmakers are considering legislation that would marry the state’s water fluoridation standards with a federal recommendation issued last year, in turn lowering the maximum amount of fluoride that could be placed in the state’s public drinking water. During a hearing on the bill last week, some advocates were pleased that the threshold would […]

• Bill would lower fluoride levels in state’s public drinking water, per federal recommendation

  HARTFORD — Lawmakers are considering legislation that would marry the state’s water fluoridation standards with a federal recommendation issued last year, in turn lowering the maximum amount of fluoride that could be placed in the state’s public drinking water. During a hearing on the bill this week, some advocates were pleased that the threshold would […]

• Peel Region considering removing fluoride from water supply

  Mississauga, Brampton, and Caledon are all considering removing fluoride from the water supply despite medical advice to the contrary. “The evidence is clear as to both its safety and its effectiveness,” the Ontario Minister of Health said Thursday. “I’m a public health doctor. It’s one of the biggest public health advancements in the past hundred years,” […]

• Tertiary aiming to tap fluorspar market

  Tertiary Minerals (LON:TYM) is the UK’s only public traded fluorspar company – a mineral the firm describes as “strategic”. The AIM group has three fluorspar assets – the Storuman property in Sweden and the Lassedalen project in Norway. It also controls the large MB deposit in Nevada USA which has been its main focus has […]

• PFOA: Lawsuits charge that 3M knew about the dangers of its chemicals

  FOR DECADES 3M was the primary producer of C8, or PFOA, and was the sole producer of a related chemical known as PFOS. But while DuPont was caught up in a massive class action suit over C8, 3M has largely avoided public scrutiny and serious legal or financial consequences for its role in developing and […]

• Q & A

  The reason pregnant women should not drink fluoridated water. The new “mother-offspring” studies of 2017 and 2018 have clearly demonstrated, for the first time, that pregnancy is the most critical period for exposure to fluoride. The fetus now ranks as the most vulnerable of our species to fluoride’s toxicity. What is Fluoridated Water? Approximately 70% […]