Fluoride (generic), Fluoritab News

CLAIMS the oyster fishing industry in the Solent could be threatened by controversial plans to add fluoride to tap water in and around Southampton (UK) will be considered by councillors today.

Then of course, the water from the hand pump at Maamillavaye is high in fluoride — the rusted smiles of the Koya women are a distinct sign.

Researchers added fluoride-coated alumina nanoparticles that helped boost the material's strength and durability, even as it retained most of the Teflon's non-stick slipperiness.

Researchers from NASA and Purdue University found that carbon dioxide and methane are not as important as fluorine (F) compounds such as chlorofluorocarbons, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, and nitrogen fluoride when it comes to producing greenhouse gases (GHGs)..

State University of New York researchers found more premature births in fluoridated than non-fluoridated upstate New York communities, according to a presentation made at the American Public Health Association's annual meeting.

BOYNE Smelters Limited claimed last night it was spending millions to reduce its dust and fluoride emissions into the community.

Environmental groups, worried about the risk of a hydrogen fluoride vapor cloud, are pushing for safer alternatives.

We, Americans, are losing our minds to Alzheimer`s disease. It is an epidemic and it is not typical of what`s going on in the rest of the world.

Aluminum, along with fluoride, is in our drinking water, foods, beverages, processed foods, and consumer products. Europe, which is largely unfluoridated (the U.S. is over 60% fluoridated), has half our Alzheimer`s rate. It doesn`t take rocket science to see a definite correlation.

Dr. William Hirzy, who is vice president of NTEU Chapter 280 (EPA Headquarters) and chemist in residence at American University added, 'One major example of the harm this administration has done to the American people is its failure to respond to the National Research Council Committee on fluoride toxicity report for their 6-year review of the fluoride drinking water standard, which found that EPA's drinking water standard for fluoride does not protect public health. The Committee also found that the evidence for fluoride's carcinogenicity should be taken more seriously by EPA.

Acute high-level exposure to fluoride causes immediate effects of abdominal pain, excessive saliva, nausea and vomiting, according to the World Health Organization.

We now have quite the informative database of articles that pertain to fluoride and their negative impact on our children's health here on SAFbaby.com. The first article we covered on this topic over a year ago, titled Are We Poisoning Our Babies And Children With Fluoride? took a look into the controversy over the "dental benefits of fluoride."

Debbie Baker, right, has lived in Jensen Camp for 30 years and says her two children's teeth were brittle and rotted by the water.

Dr. Scott Tomar worked for the Centers for Disease Control and co-authored articles which underpins two CDC unscientific claims:

1) Fluoridation is "one of the top ten public health achievements of the 20th Century" (ref 1)

2) For every dollar spent on fluoridation $38 is saved on dental health care. (ref 2)

Now working in Florida, Tomar answered five questions submitted by a Gainesville, Florida, water engineer. The Fluoride Action Network responds to Tomar here: http://fluoridealert.org/connett.tomar.oct.2009.pdf

Moving Right Along Services Inc., has helped a 217 + unit Manhattan Co-op rid themselves of Bed Bugs using fluoride.

Foods grown in Idaho can contain dangerous levels of fluoride, according to an abstract to be presented at the 2009 National Environmental Public Health Conference on October 26, 2009 in Atlanta Georgia.

All infant formulas, whether ready-to-feed, concentrated or organic, contain fluoride at levels which can discolor developing teeth, reports the October 2009 Journal of the American Dental Association .

PORTLAND, ME — The race to fill an open seat on the Portland Water District board of trustees has become a referendum on whether the district should continue adding fluoride to water it extracts from Sebago Lake.

One of the candidates, Oliver Outerbridge, is running a single-issue campaign. He opposes water fluoridation, arguing that the "mass medication" with fluoride is potentially harmful to public health.

ANTI FLUORIDE campaigners have been give fresh hope after the scheme to fluoridate Hampshire water supplies was raised in Parliament.

KADAPA: Sixty families migrated from Kothapalle village in Rajampet mandal, where fluoride content in drinking water was high, and the remaining 50 families conveyed to Rajampet tahsildar Gunabhushan Reddy their resolve to vacate the village, if they were not supplied clean potable water.

Cameco senior communications specialist Doug Prendergast said the fluoride levels read 58, when the allowable limit is 40 - but this is only during the growth period for vegetation. "It's all related to agriculture," Prendergast said. "Fluoride can cause damage to vegetation, so it's 40 during the growing season, and it doubles to 80 on Oct. 1," he said.