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Calgary: The moral imperative. Council makes right decision on the ethics of mass fluoridation
Calgary city council deserves praise for voting overwhelmingly Tuesday to remove fluoride from Calgary’s drinking water. The 10-3 vote, with Mayor Naheed Nenshi absent for meetings in Toronto, is a courageous step on a contentious issue. Despite pressure from the scientific establishment to keep fluoridation, council made the right decision. Imposing mass fluoridation on an […]
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Calgary: Common sense, courage flowing at City Hall
Maybe there’s something in the water, but this city council sure knows how to make a decision. No waffling, no calls for endless studies, just bold, potentially controversial and right-minded decisions. It’s as though someone turned on the tap and common sense and courage started to flow at City Hall. On Tuesday, Calgary’s city council […]
Canada, Alberta -
London: Fluoride attack coming to city
Anti-fluoride activists, fresh off two huge victories in major Canadian cities, are bringing their fight to London. Nearly 50 years after the teeth-toughening compound was first added to Forest City water, the same kinds of groups rejoicing over the recent removal of fluoride in Calgary and Waterloo will hammer the issue here next month. To […]
Canada, Ontario -
Group asks Davis County to warn against mixing fluoridated water, infant formula
CLEARFIELD — A state watchdog group challenged the Davis County Board of Health Tuesday to require fluoridated public water systems to advise their users that reconstituting infant formula with tap water could cause enamel fluorosis in their children. Lorna Rosenstein, director of Waterwatch of Utah, cited a 3 1/2 year study released by the National […]
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Calgary: Fluoride is out
If city council gets its way, fluoride in Calgary’s water supply will be a thing of the past. Councilors spent much of the afternoon on Tuesday debating the issue and in the end they agreed to stop adding fluoride to the water. Ten councilors supported the removal and just three were opposed to the motion. […]
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Dear HHS: Science Dictates Fluoridation Must End
The federal government has proposed that water fluoride levels be lowered to 0.7 parts per million to stem the growing incidence of dental fluorosis (discolored and/or pitted teeth), which now affects 41% of adolescents ages 12-15. However, this “lowered” level of fluoride is still too high, and will not protect millions of American children from […]
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Yellow Springs Village Council votes 3-1 to end 50 years of fluoridation
On February 8, the Village Council passed the following Ordinance by a vote of 3-1. VILLAGE OF YELLOW SPRINGS ORDINANCE NO. 2011-02 AN ORDINANCE TO DISCONTINUE FLUORIDATING THE PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY OF THE VILLAGE OF YELLOW SPRINGS WHEREAS, the Village of Yellow Springs has fluoridated its public water supply for many years; and WHEREAS, the […]
United States, Ohio -
Portsmouth: Fluoride on tap at city Council meeting tonight
PORTSMOUTH — Efforts to reduce fluoride levels in the city’s drinking water will headline a busy agenda for the City Council tonight. Included on the slate of items to go before the council beginning at 7 p.m. at City Hall is a motion to follow recent recommendations from the state Department of Health and Human […]
United States, New Hampshire -
Area water’s fluoride level is too high
Dr. John Johnson, a Lubbock pediatric dentist, sees cases of fluorosis all the time. Dr. Elizabeth Dannenberg, another Lubbock dentist, sees it too: splotchy, discolored teeth. In rare, severe cases, they even become brittle and chalky. The cause is too much fluoride, and it comes from drinking water. “There’s a lot of fluorosis in West […]
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Tenn. House Speaker and other Legislators call for halt to State promotion of fluoridation
A bipartisan group of Republican and Democrat legislators in the Tennessee House of Representatives sent a letter today to State Health Commissioner Susan Cooper, asking that she direct State Health Department employees to halt activities that promote the practice of water fluoridation. The group includes Beth Harwell, Speaker of the House, legislator-physician Dr. Joey Hensley, […]
United States, Tennessee