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Government Asked to Evaluate the Cancer-Causing Potential Of Fluoride in Tap Water
WASHINGTON — Citing a strong body of peer-reviewed evidence, Environmental Working Group (EWG) today asked the National Toxicology Program (NTP) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to list fluoride in tap water in its authoritative Report on Carcinogens, based on its ability to cause a rare form of childhood bone cancer, osteosarcoma, in boys. […]
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It’s a drug – with potentially harmful side effects.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency lists it as a “hazard.” The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry warns that high levels of exposure can harm your health. It is used to treat human health but remains largely untested by the Food and Drug Administration. The substance we’re talking about is fluoride. Why would we […]
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Water utilities aren’t responsible for dental care
On behalf of the water providers mentioned in your May 13 editorial, we offer not just an alternative point of view, but perhaps insight and facts for your readers. First, our mission is to provide potable drinking water to more than 200,000 people in Pierce County. The water we provide does not cause dental decay. […]
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Debate grows hotter over Jersey water
Frank Graham believes fluoridation is one of the great public health achievements of the past century. Adding fluoride to community water supplies has improved children’s oral health and led to steep declines in tooth decay, says Graham, who is president of the New Jersey Dental Association. He calls the additive safe and effective. Nancy Browne […]
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Fluoride again: Legislature had better take another look
One of the nation’s oldest public policy debates is again bubbling to the surface in Oregon — whether it’s wise or necessary to add fluoride to more public drinking water. HB 2742, introduced by state Rep. Bob Jenson, R-Pendleton, would require cities with populations of 10,000 to fluoridate their water supply if they can afford […]
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Health department, not cities, must solve dental-care woes
The News Tribune once again demonstrates an unwillingness to research and correctly report on the subject of water fluoridation, including the alternative dental-care program for at-risk children recommended by the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department’s Oral Health Advisory Group. A May 13 editorial states that water purveyor resistance to fluoridation does not make economic sense. A […]
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House takes second try to pass bill for fluoride
SALEM — Pressure is building on the Oregon Legislature to require cities to add fluoride to their drinking water. Such a bill passed the House in March but appears bottled up in a Senate committee. So proponents have inserted identical language in another House bill, giving them a second shot at passage through a different, […]
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Potable water as thirst choice
Women collect water from a roadside municipality tap at Sagalipara, on the outskirts of Guwahati. Picture by UB Photos Sustainable solutions to drinking water contamination, such as rainwater harvesting, are urgently needed Hundreds of villages on the southern bank of the Brahmaputra in central Assam are affected today by fluoride contamination of water sources. The […]
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Trading tooth decay for cancer
THOSE health bureaucrats who want to force fluoride on the water supplies of rural NSW should learn from their cousins north of the border. This year, well-meaning people have again tried, unsuccessfully, to force mandatory water fluoridation on Queensland. Now I am not a scientist but there seem to be five prongs to their offensive: […]
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Fluoride Chemicals Leach Lead into Water Supplies
Fluoride chemicals, combined with other water additives, pull health-damaging lead from plumbing systems into drinking water, according to University of North Carolina researchers reported a North Carolina newspaper on May 18, 2005 (a). Fluoride is added to water supplies to prevent cavities, not purify it as some believe. A combination of chloramines and fluorosilicic acid, […]
United States, Fluoride Action Network Press Release