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Letter to the Editor: On Chloramine, SF Department of Health, June Weintraub

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Saturday, October 15, 2005
On chloramine
Editor — As a health professional, I would like to clarify three important points that Denise Johnson-Kula referred to in her October 9 Open Forum commentary.
First, there is no scientific evidence that chloramine causes the wide variety of symptoms mentioned in Johnson-Kula’s commentary. The county health departments cooperatively [...]

Examining our H20 – Making great water better?

Denise Johnson-Kula
Sunday, October 9, 2005
On Feb. 2, 2004, with no public input and minimal notification, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission switched from chlorine to sanitize its water supplies to chloramine, a combination of chlorine and ammonia.
The introduction of chloramine has compromised our safety. Many residents, unaware of the changeover, suddenly began to experience health [...]