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Portland Voters Reject Water Fluoridation for the Fourth Time
Mayor Charlie Hales expressed his disappointment in a statement. “The measure lost despite my own ‘yes’ vote.That’s sure disappointing, but I accept the will of the voters.” Portland voters first turned down fluoridation when the process began in the 1950?s, and again during the 1960?s. It was briefly approved in 1978, however that plan was [...]
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Whakatane and Ohope: Concern over fluoride levels
A change in water fluoridation policy in the United States has a Tauranga resident worried the fluoride levels in some Bay of Plenty areas are too high. In an attempt to reduce the risk of mild fluorosis, the fluoride level in US water was recently reduced [sic, should be proposed] from an optimum range between [...]
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Palmerston North: Mayor wants ministry to review fluoridation stance
Amid calls for Palmerston North to dump fluoridation of the city’s water, Mayor Jono Naylor wants the Ministry of Health to review its stance on the matter. Anti-fluoride campaigners have made the issue the major theme of submissions on the city council’s draft Annual Plan, which will be debated on Wednesday. About one-third of the [...]
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Portland: Inspired water fight sends message
Outspent Portland fluoride opponents rallied a movement Now we know why fluoride backers pressed so hard to avoid a public vote. Anti-fluoridation forces — who raised far less money, had fewer seasoned campaign professionals and lost a one-sided battle for newspaper and other endorsements — easily overturned the Portland City Council’s decision to fluoridate the [...]
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Watertown City Council could be leaning to get rid of fluoride
Could the Watertown City Council end up voting to take fluoride out of the city’s water supply? Mayor Jeffrey E. Graham thinks so. If a vote was held now, Mr. Graham said, he believes there would be a “50-50” chance that the City Council would vote to get rid of the colorless, tasteless chemical that [...]
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Portland. Sources Say: Vote didn’t end fluoride fight
The fight over fluoridating Portland’s water isn’t finished. Voters overwhelmingly defeated Ballot Measure 26-161 in Tuesday’s election, repealing the City Council’s plan to fluoridate the water. But opponents have already filed an initiative petition for a City Charter change to prevent the council from ever doing it in the future. They temporarily stopped gathering signatures [...]
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Purdue Researcher’s New ‘Tool for the Organic Chemist Toolbox’ Licensed to Sigma-Aldrich
A Purdue University researcher’s U.S. patent for a safer, easier and “greener” method to incorporate fluorine into organic compounds – a common step in materials processing, drug discovery and synthesis of agricultural treatments – has been licensed to a subsidiary of Sigma-Aldrich Corporation, a St. Louis-based life science and high technology company. David Colby, assistant [...]
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PFOS: Checks for Victorian firies over toxic fish
THE Country Fire Authority (CFA) will conduct health checks on Victorian firefighters who ate fish caught in a contaminated lake at its training college at Fiskville. The CFA said the lake contained residues from firefighting foams previously used in training exercises. Testing of flesh from four fish showed it contained PFOS (perfluorooctane sulfonate), a chemical [...]
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Brooksville: Fluoridation talk of town
Brooksville Mayor Lara Bradburn said earlier this year, if the Hernando County Health Department was to present the benefits of fluoride in tap water, she’d like to hear the other side. During Tuesday evening’s water fluoridation workshop, Bradburn took matters into her own hands, and presented what she believed to be the dangers of fluoride [...]
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EPA fines Louisiana phosphoric acid manufacter to reduce hydrogen fluoride emissions
WASHINGTON –The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) announced that PCS Nitrogen has agreed to reduce air emissions from phosphoric acid production at its facility in Geismar, La. “Reducing pollution from mining and mineral processing operations is one of EPA’s national enforcement initiatives because these facilities release more [...]
United States, Louisiana Phosphate Industry