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Interview with Belgian Health Minister on Belgium’s Fluoride Ban
Although the ban on fluoride supplements is only a first step, it is however a brave decision, and Aelvoet can expect without doubt a lot of wind from the opposite direction in the next fews days, in and out of the country. MAGDA AELVOET: “Naturally in those sort of issues harmonizing within the European Union […]
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Fond du Lac fluoride referendum may be wash out
FOND DU LAC – It’s possible there will be no fluoride referendum on the Fond du Lac ballot in November even though an anti-fluoride group has collected more than 2,000 signatures on its petition drive. The Safe Water Group, which is seeking a referendum aimed at eliminating fluoride from the Fond du Lac water supply, […]
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West Jordan wants out of fluoridation
WEST JORDAN — Officials here are looking for ways to opt out of Salt Lake County”s fluoridation, which City Councilman Andrew Allison says would amount to “forced medication of every man, woman and child” in his city. Voters in 2000 supported countywide fluoridation 58 percent to 42 percent. But Assistant City Attorney Ryan Carter, who […]
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Fluoridation: West Jordan Seeking Way to Opt Out
WEST JORDAN — Voters approved it and Salt Lake County passed an ordinance requiring it. So fluoride will be flowing throughout the valley by October 2003, right? Nothing is ever that simple when it comes to fluoride. Right now, West Jordan is investigating whether it can opt out of fluoridation, which Councilman Andrew Allison says […]
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Fluoride is on tap for San Antonio
After three divisive elections and decades of bitter debate, San Antonio begins fluoridating its drinking water next week finally shedding its distinction as one of the last large U.S. cities to shun the cavity-fighting mineral. The first shipment of the chemical known as fluorosilicic acid arrived in San Antonio by tanker truck Thursday. By next […]
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Fluoridation Fails Poor Children, New Studies Show
NEW YORK, July 24 /PRNewswire/ — Fluoridation promises to level cavity rates between poor and non-poor, but fails, according to two studies in the May-June “Pediatric Dentistry,” reports the New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation (NYSCOF). Low-income pre-schoolers, from northern Manhattan, New York City (100% fluoridated), have significantly more cavities than pre-schoolers nationwide (62% […]
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Building America’s Anti-Terror Machine
It’s a very bad day in Galveston, Texas, home to one of the world’s densest concentrations of petrochemical plants. An airborne plume of hydrofluoric acid–stuff so nasty it can dissolve glass–is spreading from a railroad tank car blown up in a terrorist attack. Public-safety officials are in a scramble to understand the scope of the […]
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Urgent CALL-to-ACTION
To All Safe Water Advocates, Proponents’ efforts to fluoridate the Beaverton/Cornelius/Hillsboro area are in full swing, and, so far, our requests to Beaverton City Council members for an opportunity to present our documentation (either one-on-one or in a work session format) have been denied. The Oregonian, however, is currently soliciting public opinion, which gives all […]
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State Health Department trying to derail Watsonville’s fluoridation vote
WATSONVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Voters won’t get to decide this fall whether to fluoridate the city’s drinking water supply, according to state Department of Health Services officials. An initiative on the fall ballot asks voters if they want the chemical added to the water supply. But state statutes require a municipality to fluoridate its water […]
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Aging in the time of Drought
THE silence is the first thing to hit you in the village of Jharana Khurd, 60 km from Jaipur. Then you realise why: There are no young people in the village. Every one of the 1,200 residents, no matter if they are 50, 30 or 10, looks old, with yellow, cracked teeth and pronounced limps. […]
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