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Hastings: Dentists sink teeth into fluoride issue
The Hastings City Council plans to publicly announce their support of fluoridating the city’s water supply Monday. On Wednesday, the City Council agreed to consider a motion to support the concept of fluoridation after learning about the benefits of fluoridation from a group of Hastings dentists, orthodontists and public health officials. The City Council’s discussion […]
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McKinleyville: Water fluoridation issue goes to citizens’ committee
The controversial effort to explore whether to add fluoride to its customers’ drinking water is out of the hands of the McKinleyville Community Services District Board of Directors. As part of its ongoing discussion on fluoridation, the MCSD took up the matter to plan for what comes next during its regular monthly meeting Wednesday. After […]
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Fetal Growth Indicators and Perfluorinated Chemicals: A Study in the Danish National Birth Cohort
Perfluorooctanoate (PFOA) and perfluorooctanesulfonate (PFOS) are widespread persistent organic pollutants that have been associated with reduced birth weight at doses expected in many pregnant populations. The authors randomly selected 1,400 pregnant women and their newborns from the Danish National Birth Cohort (1996–2002) to investigate whether these compounds reduce organ growth. PFOS and PFOA were measured […]
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Hastings officials debate water fluoridation
A bill going through the legislature could require cities with more than a thousand people to put fluoride in their water. It is something that is up for discussion Wednesday night at City Hall in Hastings. City officials say it is a tough issue. City council will take a look at the bill Wednesday night […]
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Fluoride Debate in Monticello
Health officials say one of the best tools in the war on cavities is adding fluoride to the water, but Monticello city officials stopped adding the cavity-fighting substance a few years ago. Judith Corbin is a dental hygienist who takes great pride in helping kids get a beautiful smile, but Corbin says in the past […]
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Côte St. Luc ‘better not fluoridate the water,’ fluoride opponent tells mayor
A Côte St. Luc environmentalist has warned Mayor Anthony Housefather that he better do his homework before taking any serious steps towards having fluoride injected into Côte St. Luc’s drinking water. Last week during Côte St. Luc city council’s monthly sitting, Marsha Akman, a Macdonald Avenue resident, reacted to a news story published in the […]
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Fluorosilicic acid release in Braithwaite could have been ‘catastrophic’
A highly corrosive acid that leaked from a storage facility at a Braithwaite chemical plant on Monday could have eaten through adjacent storage tanks to cause a “catastrophic” mix of toxic chemicals, a state Department of Environmental Quality official said Tuesday. The disaster was averted by pumping the spilled material into the Mississippi River, where […]
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Hastings: HU board seeks input from council on fluoridation
The Hastings Utilities Board of Public Works discussed a bill Thursday now being considered by the Nebraska Legislature that would require city’s to fluoridate their water. “I don’t see anything wrong with the bill,” said board member Willis Hunt. “If people feel as they did in the past, they can create another initiative to say […]
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Council must treat fluoride issue with care
Given the importance of water to Port Huron, talking about it is pretty much routine. Discussing the treatment of the city’s drinking water is a new topic, however, and one that demands careful consideration. Port Huron has used fluoride in its drinking water since 1974. In fact, many cities in Michigan and the nation routinely […]
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Regional water provider scraps fluoride
The Humboldt Bay Municipal Water District has scrapped looking into whether or not it would be the regional provider for fluoridated water. During a packed regular meeting of its board of directors Thursday, the board voted 4-1 to cease consideration of adding fluoride to the drinking water of its customers, which include several community service […]
United States, California