Greetings!
...welcome to another OraMedia Newsletter.
The news of the past few weeks has been fraught with coverage of the AP investigation over pharmaceuticals getting into our drinking water - at least in the drinking water of those cities tested. I'm posting the original story along with another which didn't get the coverage of the first. This second story involves Merck and the drinking water of the city of Philadelphia.
In the last issue I posted a story by Scott Adams about Hillary's Health Insurance Program. Apparently, my posting it disturbed a couple of people, so I am adding some comment to explain my view on it and why I thought it was important to publish.
Finally, is California about to buckle under over the regulation of vitamin and mineral supplement regulation? Is so, the rest of us won't be far behind. Please read this alert from the National Health Federation.
As always, thank you for all of the great feedback. I hope you enjoy today's newsletter and are able to get something useful out of it.
Tom
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 What's In YOUR Water?
A
vast array of pharmaceuticals - including antibiotics,
anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones - have
been found
in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an
Associated Press investigation shows.
To be sure, the
concentrations of these pharmaceuticals are tiny, measured in
quantities of parts per billion or trillion, far below the levels of a
medical dose. Also, utilities insist their water is safe.
But the
presence of so many prescription drugs - and over-the-counter
medicines
like acetaminophen and ibuprofen - in so much of our drinking
water is
heightening worries among scientists of long-term consequences to human
health.
In the course of a five-month inquiry, the AP discovered
that drugs have been detected in the drinking water supplies of 24
major metropolitan areas - from Southern California to
Northern New
Jersey, from Detroit to Louisville, Ky.
Water providers rarely
disclose results of pharmaceutical screenings, unless pressed, the AP
found. For example, the head of a group representing major California
suppliers said the public "doesn't know how to interpret the
information" and might be unduly alarmed.
How
do the drugs get into the water? More...
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Merck
to pay $20M for polluting
Philadelphia
drinking supplyPHILADELPHIA
-- A pharmaceutical company will pay more than
$20 million for multiple Clean Water Act violations stemming from
three chemical spills, one of which killed more than 1,000 fish and
forced the city to temporarily shut off drinking water intakes.
Based
in Whitehouse Station, N.J., Merck & Co. Inc. will pay
$10 million for systems to prevent future hazardous discharges at the
facility 15 miles outside Philadelphia, and $9 million for other
large-scale environmental protection projects, federal authorities
said.
Merck
also will pay $750,000 to the federal government, $750,000
to the state and $75,000 to the state Fish and Boat Commission in
penalties and civil damages for the three 2006 discharges in the
Wissahickon Creek, which is the source of 40 percent of
Philadelphia's drinking water.
"Perhaps
more than anything else, this settlement says to every
company that discharges dangerous chemicals as part of its operations
that it is accountable to the environment and the community," U.S.
Attorney Patrick J. Meehan said in a statement. More...
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 Comment:
Hillary Clinton's Universal Health Care Plan: Buy Health Insurance or Else!
by Tom Cornwell
Regarding
the Clinton Health Care Proposal
In
the March 3, 2008 Issue of the OraMedia Newsletter for Dental Self
Sufficiency, I posted the article, 'Hillary Clinton's Universal
Health Care Plan - Buy Health Insurance Or Else!'
A
few readers - not a lot - wrote in favor of or argued about my posting this
article for various reasons. One in particular covered most the
points of the others, so I will post that one it here and reply at
the end.
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California Targeting Safe Supplements
California
- ever known for its luscious beauty, endless energy, and general
wackiness - is on the verge of stepping off the edge of the cliff yet
again. A trial balloon is being floated by California's
Office of
Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) to limit the potency of
vitamin and mineral supplements under California's Proposition 65 as cancer-causing
agents.
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