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Town says no to fluoride
Mount Desert residents voted to remove fluoride from the drinking water by an overwhelming 229-42 margin at Monday’s town meeting referendum vote. The town becomes the first municipality in the state to remove fluoride from its water. Since 1963, Mount Desert has added fluoride for its purported benefits in combating tooth decay. But recent studies […]
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Citizens group criticizes lack of action on fluoride warning
Controversy over the fluoridation of Sammamish’s municipal water began two years ago in public hearings. Health concerns were aired, benefits touted and the water has been fluoridated ever since. Science, however, never rests. Armed with new findings by a prominent research group, a group of concerned Sammamish residents recently asked Sammamish Plateau Water & Sewer […]
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Fluoride in water may harm baby’s teeth
Drinking fluoridated water may ruin your baby’s smile. That’s the latest warning handed down by the Environmental Working Group, a public interest and environmental watchdog whose research about the toxicity of Teflon got DuPont to agree to change the popular coating’s chemistry. EWG’s current campaign centers on the youngest of 18million customers of the Metropolitan […]
United States, California -
North fluoride battle at stake
NORTH ATTLEBORO – The battleground on fluoridation has been squarely laid on the race for a single three-year seat on the board of health. Incumbent Diane Battistello, a fluoride opponent is facing a challenge from John Donohue Jr., a fluoride proponent. In fact, the only thing the pair agree on when it comes to fluoridation […]
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Minnesota: Health fears heightened for 3M chemicals in water
Chemicals formerly manufactured by the 3M Co. and found in groundwater in the metro area are potentially more dangerous than previously believed, according to state health officials on Thursday. The Minnesota Department of Health revised its recommended maximum concentrations of PFOA and PFOS, two chemicals found in the city wells of Oakdale and more than […]
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Bolton to have referendum on fluoride
THE announcement of a referendum as to whether or not fluoride should be added to the town’s water is not before time. It is a serious issue that could affect the future health of Bolton’s residents and whether or not such a move will be of benefit is not clear cut. What is clear is […]
United Kingdom, England -
The double standard of fluoridation
A few years back I got myself into woeful trouble with the Irish Medicines Board. I had been selling licensed medicines in a manner contrary to the provisions of the Medical Preparations (Prescription and Control of Supply) Regulations 1996. This arose from a website that I then had, which was aimed at helping men with […]
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Campaigners step up fluoride fight in Sheffield
CAMPAIGNERS are renewing their fight to prevent fluoride being added to Sheffield’s tap water supply – after a city dental chief said it could halve the amount of tooth decay among children. John Green, director of dental public health at Sheffield Primary Care Trust, made the claims after writing a shocking report that revealed city […]
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For Want of a Dentist
Twelve-year-old Deamonte Driver died of a toothache Sunday. A routine, $80 tooth extraction might have saved him. If his mother had been insured. If his family had not lost its Medicaid. If Medicaid dentists weren’t so hard to find. If his mother hadn’t been focused on getting a dentist for his brother, who had six […]
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Infant Formula Warning Applies in New Zealand Just as Much as the USA
It’s official! “The issue isn’t the infant formula itself, but the [fluoridated] water it’s reconstituted with”. This statement was made recently by Professor John Stamm, spokesman for the American Dental Association (ADA), and William Maas, the Oral Health Director for the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in confirming the ADA’s warning of November […]
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