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“They were trying to paint us with the Tanton stain,” he told me.

The idea of putting fluoride in water systems started way back in the late 1940s and early 1950s after a dentist researching a dental condition involving mottled and discolored teeth called “Colorado brown stain” discovered that the cause was naturally occurring fluoride in the water.

"Sheila Keen-Warren will always be an admitted convicted murderer and will wear that stain for every day for the rest of her life," Palm Beach County State Attorney Dave Aronberg said in a statement Saturday to the Associated Press.

Thanks to their stain-, water-, and grease-resistant properties, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, have been a mainstay of commercial and consumer products for decades.

In their letter to Sir Keir Starmer, the veterans' charities said £12,500 payouts would "not honour the service and sacrifice of a community who faced treatment Lord Etherton described as ‘a stain upon the illustrious history of the armed forces’."