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Salina: Group urges Salina to stop adding fluoride to water
A grassroots organization launched a campaign Monday to get the City of Salina to stop adding fluoride to the water supply. Members of a group called “Salina Cares” spoke to city commissioners during a comment period during a study session before the Monday’s meeting. Group spokesman John Boesen first gave a little background. He said […]
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Rotorua: Push for fluoride in Rotorua’s water
Local health officials are putting their support behind fluoridating city water supplies. The contentious issue is to be discussed yet again at a special Rotorua District Council meeting next month. Local health organisations have renewed their support for fluoridation – claiming it would help improve the dental health of the city’s children, which is significantly […]
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Rous Water: Fluoride battle to Court of Appeal
LISMORE anti-fluoride campaigner Al Oshlak has vowed to take his fight against the fluoridation of the Ballina, Lismore and Wardell water supply to the Supreme Court of Appeal. The veteran campaigner has also pledged “not to pay a cent” of the estimated $300,000 legal costs racked up by Rous Water and Ballina Shire Council that […]
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New joint body to advise on fluoride
The Department of Health and the HSE have agreed to conjointly establish an Advisory Board for a National Study of Total Fluoride Intake, Irish Medical Times reports. It is proposed the Advisory Board will review the scientific literature, evidence of best practice and expert opinion on the most appropriate methods to determine total fluoride intake […]
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Madhya Pradesh people drinking water with excessive fluoride
A large population, especially children, in 27 of the 50 Madhya Pradesh districts are threatened by the fluorosis menace as people in these districts are being forced to drink water with excessive fluoride, much beyond the permissible limit. According to the latest information available from the state public health engineering department, the fluoride content in […]
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Orillia: Staff to recommend fluoride
ORILLIA – City staff is poised to recommend fluoridation of Orillia’s water in a report co-authored by the public health unit. “I think that’s going to be ultimately (the recommendation),” said water/wastewater engineer Jason Covey, the city’s lead on the project. “The health unit is our go-to people on health advice.” Staff will make its […]
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Chatham-Kent: Doc to report on fluoride
A woman concerned about the use of fluoride in the water took her case to the Chatham-Kent Health Board Wednesday. Chantelle Goldsmith of Fluoride Free Chatham-Kent said the group opposes the addition of fluoride for several reasons, noting the type of fluoride used isn’t of pharmaceutical grade, but is instead an industrial waste byproduct. “Why […]
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Lobbyist Joins Fluoridation Plot
One very busy city hall lobbyist is Richard Ledford, the former aide to GOP ex-mayor Susan Golding. According to his most recent disclosure filing, covering the first three months of this year, Ledford got $8000 for working on behalf of Alliant Real Estate Investments, Inc., regarding the “development of a project at 500 West Broadway.” […]
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NYC: Queens Schoolchildren Protest Added Fluoride In City Water
Dozens of fifth graders from P.S. 122 in Astoria are leading the battle against the city adding fluoride to tap water since the 1960s, as the children and Queens Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. rallied on City Hall’s steps Tuesday to insist that water with added fluoride is unsafe to drink. See Video
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Palisade eliminates fluoride from drinking water
PALISADE, Colo.- Palisade has stopped adding fluoride to its drinking water supply. After running out of the chemical material back in March, the city had to make a decision. Frank Watt, public works director, said, “We asked the question, are we achieving our purpose of providing the safest drinking water possible? The addition of fluoride […]
United States, Colorado United States