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Fight Over Fluoride in Pottstown
The borough of Pottstown is “drinking up” the idea of eliminating fluoride from the water. It’s believed the move could save the borough thousands of dollars a year. But as WFMZ’s Joscelyn Moes reports, not everyone is on board. Reporter The idea of “filling” the water with fluoride in Pottstown, Montgomery County could soon “dry […]
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Southampton: Phone poll on fluoridation
POLLSTERS have begun phoning 2,000 Hampshire residents as part of an independent survey to gather public opinions on fluoridation. The poll is being carried out as the consultation on controversial plans to add the chemical to the water in parts of Southampton and the surrounding area including Nursling and Rownhams enters its final stages. More […]
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Why shouldn’t experts be questioned?
I am astounded that the editors of the Oakville Beaver are “puzzled why council is questioning the viewpoint of its own medical officer of health” over the issue of water fluoridation (No need to rush decision, Oakville Beaver, Nov. 26). Surely Canada has long gone beyond abject obeisance to persons of authority in debates about […]
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Stopping water fluoridation borders on child neglect
Halton stopping water fluoridation? Bad move. Some misguided members of council say there is “too much evidence.” Not all evidence is equal. Small studies and anecdotes are not science. Evidence is not measured by paper volume. Volume was science when we all agreed the earth was flat or that some of us were witches. Systematic […]
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Health committee ‘re-postpones’ water fluoridation debate
An impassioned plea from a Burlington councillor was not enough to make regional health committee members postpone for up to two years the ongoing debate on whether to remove fluoride from Halton’s drinking water. Instead, committee members voted Tuesday morning to simply defer the issue until the spring, once Health Canada opens the subject up […]
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Tabelands’ towns to get fluoridated water
Arrangements are being made to introduce fluoride into the water supplies of several Tablelands’ towns by 2011 as part of a Queensland Government initiative. Towns such as Kuranda, Malanda and Yungaburra with populations of 1,000 people or more are now required to provide fluoridated water under new regulations. The aim is to have 95 per […]
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Are Indian Nuclear Assets Safe?
Two of the crown jewels of the Indian nuclear program and a number of other sites that possibly house Indian nuclear material are a stone throw’s away from Mumbai, where ten young men infiltrated the city, patrolled its streets, killed India’s top antiterrorism official, and faced off hundreds of India’s elite soldiers for 60 hours. […]
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Potential for infant over-exposure to fluoride by diluting formula with too much water
NOTE FROM FAN: While this important article does not mention fluoride, we include it because of the real potential for over-exposing an infant to fluoride. The amount of fluoride an infant receives who is fed formula made with fluoridated water, when the tap water contains 1 ppm, is estimated to be up to 250 times […]
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Fluoride-related problems increasing
BANGALORE: Endemic prevalence of a unique syndrome characterized by genu valgum, goitre, dental mottling and xerosis of the conjuctiva among school children in Kaiwara, a village in Chikkaballapur district. This is according to a study conducted on endemic hydric fluorosis in Kaiwara and a neighbouring village by MS Ramaiah Medical College and Hospitals. The study […]
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Casino to be drinking fluoridated water soon
CASINO residents will be drinking fluoridated water by the end of the year. Richmond Valley Council general manager Brian Wilkinson confirmed the fluoridation system for Casino’s water supply will be operational by the December 31 deadline set by the Health Department. The water supply is being fluoridated as part of an initiative aimed at improving […]
Australia