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Mandatory fluoridation battle not over
While a bill requiring the fluoridation of public water supplies in Arkansas did not pass in this year’s session of the Arkansas General Assembly, proponents of the proposal are not giving up. “We are going to do this again, and if we have to, we are going to do it again and we’re going to […]
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Rural Decay
ALMOST half of all Victorian children have decayed teeth, potentially causing learning difficulties and behavioural problems. And rural Victorian kids’ teeth are twice as bad as those in metropolitan Melbourne because most regional water supplies are unfluoridated. Research by Deakin University, the Royal Children’s Hospital and the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute has revealed 44 per […]
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Anti-fluoridation leader to speak Thursday, Friday
A national leader in anti-fluoridation efforts will speak Thursday and Friday in Bellingham at events organized by people opposing a proposal to fluoridate Bellingham’s drinking water. Paul Connett, executive director of Fluoride Action Network and professor of environmental chemistry at St. Lawrence University, will be among the panelists at a public forum at Broadway Hall […]
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No to Fluoridation Bill
A BILL before the Massachusetts Legislature seeks to force water fluoridation upon virtually every community in the state. The bill would deprive local boards of health and citizens of the right to choose or not choose fluoridation. Fluoridation has been a controversial idea from its inception. People on both sides of the issue oppose this […]
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Water district that dropped fluoride reconsidering after outcry
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Oral surgeon Jonathan Hanson was reading a routine water quality report produced annually by the local water district when he noticed the fluoride level seemed unusually low. So Hanson, who helped persuade officials to start fluoridating the water in the 1980s, began calling around. What he learned shocked some dentists, doctors […]
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Fluoride meeting in Tenterfield
At the fluoride meeting there were positive suggestions and alternatives to fluoridation put forward by locals. Calls for greater community education about healthy eating were made repeatedly. Local resident Noel Manser challenged NSW Health to distribute a show bag of toothbrushes, toothpaste and information to Tenterfield schools as part of a pilot study until 2008. […]
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After much contention, Joplin to begin getting fluoride in water
JOPLIN, Mo. – Despite continued objections from some citizens, Joplin’s water system will begin getting fluoride next week, the city’s water supplier said. Missouri-American Water Co. is sending notices about the upcoming fluoridation in bills mailed to customers, saying it will begin putting fluoride in the water in August. A spokeswoman for the water company, […]
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FAN calls on NIH to remove Harvard Professor from fluoride-cancer study
BURLINGTON VT – The Fluoride Action Network (FAN) has urged that a Harvard Professor be removed from a research group studying the association between fluoride and osteosarcoma because his objectivity and ethics are disputed and he has ties to a company that profits from fluoride. FAN also urges other steps be taken to ensure this […]
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Revisiting fluoride
It’s a good thing that the Legislature failed to act on House Bill 2025, which would require cities with 10,000 or more people to fluoridate their water supplies. The House had approved this bill. Among the no votes was that of Rep. Jeff Kropf, the Republican representing east Linn County. He wisely believes that people […]
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Dentists Celebrate Fluoridation Where Children Suffer With Cavities
NEW YORK, July 26 /PRNewswire/ — While Chicago children suffer with dental pain, limousines delivered dignitaries to a large white tent, ringed with yellow shirted security guards, where dentists and others, on government payrolls, kicked off a four-day 60th birthday party for water fluoridation replete with ice sculptures, free duffle bags, food and specially made […]
United States, National USA