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Health group backs fluoride
SPRINGFIELD – The city Public Health Council voted 9-1 last night to recommend that the mayor and City Council approve fluoridation of the water supply, but that doesn’t mean the treatment is imminent. State law prohibits fluoridation if a municipal water source also supplies other communities that haven’t approved fluoridation and if the water directed […]
United States, Massachusetts -
Bonney Lake council approves alternative to fluoridation
Three years after the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department’s (TPCHD) 2002 mandate that “would require all water purveyors in the County serving 5,000 or more people to add fluoride to their water supplies” the Bonney Lake City Council is one step closer to reaching a compromise that meets the health department’s goal of widespread dental health […]
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Not so fast on fluoride, say officials in Lakewood
The Lakewood Water District is looking at alternatives to putting fluoride into its water supply, just four months after residents voted in favor of adding the cavity-fighting compound. The district recently got an unexpected cash incentive to fluoridate the drinking water of its roughly 70,000 customers. The Washington Dental Service Foundation is offering $364,560, which […]
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Appeal filed on fluoride additive
ESCONDIDO – A La Jolla attorney yesterday appealed a judge’s ruling against an effort to stop the city from adding fluoride to its water supply. The case revolves around the question of whether the city has the right to use a fluoride additive – called hydrofluorosilic acid – that contains minute amounts of arsenic and […]
United States, California -
Move to ban fluoride flounders
Efforts to ban the addition of chemicals such as fluoride to Hawaii’s drinking water appear dead in the state Legislature this year. Although the Senate passed a measure in favor of a ban, a key House member says he has no plans to hear the proposal, effectively killing it this session. “We don’t have any […]
United States, Hawaii -
Cities, not Legislature, should decide local policy
The Arkansas Legislature exists to serve the people of Arkansas who elected them to represent their interests in Little Rock, not to pursue their own special agendas at the expense of depriving individual municipalities of the right to make decisions on the local level The same can be said about a statewide water fluoridation mandate […]
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Factors influencing natural occurrence of fluoride-rich groundwaters: a case study in the southeastern part of the Korean Peninsula.
Abstract Factors regulating the occurrence of fluoride in groundwater were investigated using natural isotope tracers and geochemical data in the southeastern part of Korea where about 10% of the total public water-supply wells (n=422) inspected in this study had fluoride levels exceeding the drinking water limit of Korea (1.5 mg/l). The F-rich public wells are […]
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Removal of fluoride from semiconductor wastewater by electrocoagulation-flotation.
Abstract This work employs an anodic surfactant, sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS), to improve the flotation performance of the electrocoagulation-flotation (ECF) process to treated fluoride containing semiconductor wastewater following calcium precipitation. The dissolved fluoride ions and CaF(2) particles in the wastewater after calcium precipitation were effectively removed in the ECF process simultaneously. The dosage of SDS […]
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Water fluoridation vote is postponed
TRENTON – A decision that could have turned New Jersey from a state with one of the lowest rates of fluoridating the water to one of the nation’s leaders was delayed yesterday to allow the public more of a say. The state Public Health Council, which took up the issue in October, had been expected […]
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House approves fluoridation bill
Water systems serving 5,000 or more people would be forced to fluoridate the water under a bill passed 57-25 Monday by the Arkansas House of Representatives, even if the people using those systems have voted against using fluoride. House Bill 2627 by Rep. Tommy Roebuck, D-Arkadelphia, would pre-empt local ordinances on whether a city is […]
United States, Arkansas