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Fluoridated water may end in Schuylkill County
With Schuylkill Haven Borough Council’s decision last week to stop adding fluoride to its drinking water, municipal water fluoridation may soon be a thing of the past in Schuylkill County. The borough’s water authority was the only one in Schuylkill County to add fluoride to its water, according to a list compiled by ActionPA, a […]
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Lithgow: Fluoridation set for water supply
It has been a long time coming but Greater Lithgow’s water supply could finally undergo fluoridation treatment within a few months. Lithgow Council’s Group Manager Regional Services, Andrew Muir, said yesterday that a necessary preliminary report from government agencies had arrived only this week. It would have to be analysed by Council officers before going […]
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Brainerd: It must be the water
Thirty years after the Brainerd City Council ended its long fight against state-mandated fluoridation Mayor James Wallin makes a weekly trek to an unfluoridated city tap for drinking water. He won’t drink the city’s fluoridated water, labeling it a health threat. “The stuff is extremely hazardous and poisonous,” Wallin said of his city’s fluoridated water […]
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Watsonville. Opinion: A fool’s ride to fluoridation?
California cities are not required by law to fluoridate unless somebody like the California Dental Association comes along and fully funds all costs for estimates, building, installation and maintenance of the system. In Watsonville’s case, the CDA has proposed to finance the construction and fluoridation for two years. Back around 2002, the Santa Cruz County […]
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Watsonville. Opinion: We don’t need dirty water, nor a rotten government
Whenever the topic of water fluoridation and rotten teeth arises in Watsonville, it quickly turns into an issue of dirty water and rotten government. When the California State Legislature passed a fluoridation law back in the 1990s, the stated purpose for enacting the law was for the “protection and maintenance of dental health,” and to […]
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Sarnia: Council to debate controversial fluoride issue
Sarnia city council can help move the fluoride debate forward Monday, according to the chairperson of the Lambton Area Water Supply System (LAWSS). City councillors are expected to vote Monday on whether or not they believe LAWSS should continue adding the tooth decay preventative to the local drinking water supply. “Whatever comes out of city […]
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GAO Report: Biomonitoring
Testimony Before the Subcommittee on Superfund, Toxics and Environmental Health, Committee on Environment and Public Works, U.S. Senate Statement of John Stephenson, Director Natural Resources and Environment Excerpts: Why GAO Did This Study Biomonitoring, which measures chemicals in people’s tissues or body fluids, has shown that the U.S. population is widely exposed to chemicals used […]
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Schuylkill Haven to stop adding fluoride to water supply
SCHUYLKILL HAVEN – The borough will stop adding fluoride to its water supply after a motion to keep adding the chemical was defeated at Wednesday’s borough council meeting. “I think we’re doing an injustice by taking it out for our young people,” council President Marlin W. Berger Jr. said. Marlin Berger, who was the only […]
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Gympie: Moral objection to fluoridation
IN a show of defiance, Cr Jan Watt decided to walk out on a Gympie Regional Council Works and Services Committee meeting discussion about fluoride on Tuesday. She said council was instructed by the Queensland Government to vote in favour of fluoridation and decide how they were going to implement it. Cr Watt said she […]
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Uncleaned Swedish container led to exposure
An investigation has been launched into how a uranium hexafluoride shipping container was sent from a Swedish fuel facility without having been completely emptied and cleaned. A Urenco employee in Germany was exposed to the material on opening the container. The exposure occurred on 21 January at Urenco’s uranium enrichment plant in Gronau, Germany. Urenco […]
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