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CSIR warns aginst fluoride in water
The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research warned yesterday about plans to add fluoride to South Africa’s drinking water, saying it posed a possible health risk to people with HIV and Aids, as well as those suffering from malnutrition. Briefing Parliament’s water affairs portfolio committee, Bettina Genthe, a water analysis expert with Environmentek, a business […]
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Goffstown weighs the evidence
GOFFSTOWN – Saying there is doubt about fluoride‘s safety, a majority of speakers decried using fluoridated water from Manchester in Goffstown during a public hearing last night at Saint Anselm College’s Institute of Politics. About two dozen people turned out for the hearing. Some Manchester officials attended and fielded questions from the audience in a […]
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Proponents decline offer to defend fluoridation at Forum
MANCHESTER – Ed Groves Sr. of Hooksett left last night’s 90 minute fluoridation forum at Manchester Public Library with everything he needed to make up his mind about the issue of whether fluoride should remain in public drinking water. It was the same tube of Crest he came with. “All this scientific stuff is fine, […]
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Pro-fluoride measure fails to qualify for Spokane ballot
An off-again, on-again initiative to add fluoride to Spokane’s drinking water is definitely off again. On Monday, the Spokane City Council was told the initiative had failed to gain enough valid signatures to qualify for the November ballot. As a result, the council voted unanimously to stop any further consideration of placing the measure on […]
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Fluoridation: What’s new since the 1999 vote?
ON SEPT. 14, Manchester, Bedford, Goffstown, Hooksett and Londonderry will decide whether to continue fluoridating the public’s water. Has anything new happened since the November 1999 vote, when a slim majority chose to fluoridate? Absolutely! Following, a sampling of significant developments: December 5, 1999: Dr. Hardy Limeback, head of preventive dentistry at the University of […]
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Lawsuit challenges fluoride referendum
Residents in Auburn and Derry who want their votes counted on the fluoridated water distributed by Manchester Water Works have filed a lawsuit challenging a regional referendum on the issue scheduled for the state primary election on Sept. 14. The Legislature ordered the referendum for “municipalities whose voters directly receive water from the city of […]
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City revises fluoride ballot wording
The City of Hood River has met citizen demands to include more information in the fluoridation measure slated for the Nov. 2 general election ballot. On Thursday, municipal officials forestalled court action by revising the the ballot language. The revised text discloses the names of the three potential fluoride compounds that could be added to […]
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Dissent in Joplin
It looks to some like the poor people of Joplin got shafted again when the Joplin City Council last Monday night blew off opposition to Council Bill No. 2004-650, an ordinance authorizing and directing the introduction of fluoride into the public water system of the City. Only Councilman Jon Tupper, (zone 4) opposed the measure. […]
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Look what fluoride did to my girl’s teeth…
CARENA Smith’s teeth will never recover. Mottled brown and warped, they were ruined by the chemical hailed as a cure-all for tooth decay. Carena, now 19, took fluoride tablets as a child to make her teeth strong. Instead, the chemical – which Glasgow NHS bosses want to add to public water supplies – poisoned the […]
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Fluoridation proposal advances in area towns
CARL JUNCTION, Mo. — The debate over whether to fluoridate Joplin’s water supply flowed Tuesday into a neighboring town. The Joplin City Council granted preliminary approval Monday night to a plan to fluoridate the city’s water supply. Carl Junction’s City Council followed Tuesday night and agreed to vote on an ordinance approving fluoride at its […]
United States, Missouri