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The Age recently featured an article on the detrimental effects of fluoride emissions on the fauna living and grazing at two industrial sites in Victoria - the Alcoa aluminium smelter near Portland and the Austral Bricks factory in the outer northern Melbourne suburb of Craigieburn.


A PDF version of this page (with the 'Revised Coat of Arms' in black and white):
Kangaroos Victims of Factory Fluoride Pollution  (PDF)

Skeletal Fluorosis is a 'hidden' condition in Australia, undiagnosed by Doctors who typically aren't trained to recognise it in people. Sometimes it's misdiagnosed as osteo-arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, or other related health conditions. But it's a step in the right direction that it's now recognised in kangaroos.

In the last few years, dozens and possibly hundreds of kangaroos have been culled due to skeletal fluorosis.


See the article by Deborah Gough on The Age's website:
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/roos-victims-of-factory-fluoride-20100220-oms2.html

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