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Town votes to remove fluoride from drinking water
MOUNT DESERT, Maine –The Maine Dental Association expressed disappointment after residents voted to remove fluoride from the local drinking water, making Mount Desert the state’s first community to make such a change. The decision came after the Mount Desert Water District said studies conducted during the past few years call into question the safety of […]
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Gormley vows to turn tap on water fluoridation
The fluoridation of drinking water will cease if the Green Party is elected to government, party health spokesman John Gormley has pledged. Mr Gormley said he believed that the Fine Gael spokesman on health, Dr Liam Twomey, would also like to see an end to fluoridation. “I am hopeful I can get support for its […]
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Fluoride debate flares
The debate over fluoridation of water has flared up, after the Green Party declared it would stop fluoridation if in power. Green Party TD John Gormley said it would be ‘prudent’ to stop water fluoridation in Ireland immediately. The Expert Body on Fluorides and Health, an official group, countered with a flat denial of the […]
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Town is first in Maine to reject fluoride
MOUNT DESERT, ME — In a 229 to 42 vote, residents chose to remove fluoride from their drinking water, making this town the first municipality in the state to do so, a March 7 Bar Harbor Times story reported. The town has been adding fluoride since 1963, but the water district, citing recent studies showing […]
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Plan to dose tap water with fluoride
The Department of Health is back from the drawing board, determined to force all big towns and cities to dose their drinking water with fluoride. And while government dentists believe the move is necessary to protect children’s teeth, the international scientific community remains sharply divided about the potential for long-term harm to elderly people, the […]
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Greens pledge to end fluoridation
The Green Party has said it would end the fluoridation of the State’s water supplies if elected to Government. Health spokesman John Gormley said that water fluoridation had reached its sell-by date and that the latest international research meant that the practice was no longer tenable. Speaking at a press conference in Dublin, Mr Gormley […]
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Arsenic in my Fluoride? CDC admits Yes
New York – March 12, 2007 — Trace amounts of arsenic are found in fluoride chemicals added to drinking water supplies, reports the U.S. Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) website. Fluoridation is a controversial attempt to reduce tooth decay in tap-water consumers. Fluoridation chemicals – sodium fluoride, sodium fluorosilicate, and fluorosilicic acid (FSA) – are […]
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Anti-Fluoride Group Delighted With Ashburton Referendum
The group which campaigned against the fluoridation of Ashburton’s water supply is delighted with the town’s majority vote against fluoridation. Fluoride was withdrawn in 2002 following a public campaign, but health officials were seeking to reinstate it, citing rising tooth decay rates. But in a binding referendum on the issue, 55 percent of over 7,000 […]
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Ashburton water to stay unflouridated
Ashburton people have voted against fluoridating the town’s water supply. Fluoride was withdrawn in 2002 following a public campaign, but health officials were seeking to reinstate it, citing rising tooth decay rates. More than 7000 residents took part in a binding referendum, and just under 55% voted against. The three-week poll was open to 11,000 […]
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3M duo quizzed on water concerns
Rep. Karla Bigham was clearly frustrated after hearing contrasting opinions about the danger posed by 3M chemicals in east metro drinking water. Why shouldn’t the company provide bottled water or filtering systems to affected residents until more is known, the Cottage Grove DFLer asked two 3M executives at a legislative hearing Tuesday. “The water is […]
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