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Fort Worth stops adding fluoride to water due to shortage
FORT WORTH — The city of Fort Worth has temporarily stopped adding fluoride to public drinking water supplies, because of a nationwide shortage of the tooth decay-fighting compound. The city, which supplies drinking water to nearly 1 million people in Tarrant County, ran out of fluoride last month after its contracted supplier failed to deliver […]
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Water District 54 commissioner explains fluoride danger
As your readers know, King County Water District 54 is working with the City of Des Moines, South King Fire and Rescue, and developers to upgrade our delivery system to meet their needs for redevelopment of existing properties. The District stands firm that “Growth should pay for Growth,” not the existing ratepayers where about a […]
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Isle of Man: Fluoridation meeting tonight
The debate over the merits of adding fluoride to the Island’s water will reach the public consultation stage this evening (Tuesday). A head-to-head meeting takes place at the Loch Promenade Methodist Church in Douglas at 7 o’clock, organised by the Island Campaign for non-Fluoridated Tap Water. Supporters of fluoridation, including the health department, claim it […]
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Taiwan Buddhist group sends low-fluorine tea to Tibet
Taipei – A Taiwan Buddhist group, believing the high- fluorine milk tea which Tibetans have been drinking for centuries is bad for their health, is sending low-fluorine tea to Tibet, the group said Tuesday. The Buddhist Tzuchi Foundation joined Chinese researchers in studying the tea-drinking habits of Tibetans in 2000 and since 2004, has distributed […]
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Colgate-Palmolive
In early 2006, Colgate-Palmolive announced that its toothpaste plant in Clarksville, Indiana would relocate to Morristown, Tennessee by 2008. Another indication of Indiana’s shift from a manufacturing-based economy, the news came as a blow to the plant’s 500 employees, along with economic forecasters in Southern Indiana. But exponents of historic preservation were also distressed by […]
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Anaheim fluoridates 25% of its drinking water
Anaheim Began Receiving Fluoridated Water Supplies from MWD on November 19, 2007 The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MWD) joined the majority of the nation’s water utilities in adding fluoride to the drinking water processed at its five treatment plants beginning Monday, October 29.. The treatment plant that serves Orange County and the Anaheim […]
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London: Politicians downplay fluoride shortage
Londoners are going without fluoride in their water again — and without public notice again. But city politicians say there’s no threat to health with a short-term gap in the cavity-fighting substance so there’s no need to tell anyone. “I don’t think Londoners’ teeth are going to rot in a week,” Controller Bud Polhill said. […]
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Doctors sign anti-fluoridation petition
TWENTY-ONE south-west doctors have signed an anti-fluoride petition arguing it is “imprudent” to add the chemical to public water supplies. The doctors have declared their collective concerns about the “efficacy and safety” of water fluoridation. With the exception of Dr Janet Van Leerdam, who practices in Cobden, the remaining 20 are based in Warrnambool. In […]
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Director of UK Fluoride Information Centre moving to Australia
Professor Anthony Blinkhorn OBE is retiring from the University of Manchester and as director of the National Fluoride Information Centre (NFIC). He is retiring from NFIC, England’s only independent information centre for fluorides and fluoridation, after three years for a new life in Australia as chair of Population Oral Health at Sydney University. Professor Robin […]
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Needham: Fluoride in the water again
The town began adding fluoride to the water supply again on Nov. 8, according to local officials. Needham had been unable to get fluoride for several weeks because of a shortage experienced by its supplier, LCI Ltd. Officials had expected not to receive any fluoride until January, said William Wanberg, the town’s water treatment manager, […]
United States, Massachusetts