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Experts at meeting say fluoride is detrimental to health
CANTON – In the only town in the north country to ban fluoride from its drinking water, a handful of scientists gathered and claimed the cavity-fighting substance negatively affects behavior and lowers intelligence. On Saturday at the St. Lawrence University campus, the second day of the First Citizens Conference on Fluoride, Phyllis J. Mullenix, who […]
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Port Angeles fluoride hearing heats up
PORT ANGELES — The second day of city water fluoridation hearings brought heated exchanges as debate continued toward 11 p.m. Thursday. Breaking from planned 10 p.m. adjournment, both sides completed their three-hour presentations about 9:40 p.m. Following a 30-minute break to prepare documents, City Council questions and closing arguments were expected to run until at […]
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Public to make fluoride decision
Local residents, employees and businesses will all have a say as to whether fluoride should be added to their local water supply under proposed regulations. Views should also be sought from voluntary public health organisations as well as statutory health and local authorities, the government has suggested in draft regulations from the Department of Health. […]
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To Add Or Not To Add
FLORENCE – For more than 50 years, the residents of this coastal town have gulped down millions of gallons of water, pumped from the surface of local lakes or from beneath sand dunes – with at least one special ingredient: fluoride. Hailed by dentists as a proven cavity foe, city officials decided in 1952 that […]
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Oregonians long skeptical of fluoridation
Today, less than a quarter of Oregon residents drink fluoridated water. Only two other states have lower percentages of use. Despite the fervent efforts of dentists to persuade water districts and city councils to add the substance, the chemical additive is in decline. Portland is the largest city in the United States without fluoridated water. […]
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Fluoridation of Water to Be Decided Locally
Draft regulations setting out how Strategic Health Authorities (SHAs) should consult local people on the decision to fluoridate water supplies were published today by Public Health Minister, Melanie Johnson. The draft regulations require SHAs to publish proposals to fluoridate in the local media, and consult on the decision for three months. SHAs would only then […]
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Arcatans call for Safe Drinking Water ordinance
ARCATA — About 30 Arcata residents gathered on the lawn of City Hall on Thursday in support of the proposed Safe Drinking Water ordinance, which apparently targets the city’s continued use of fluoride. Citizens filed a notice of intent to circulate a petition to place the ordinance on a citywide ballot. The citizens plan to […]
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Summer fluoride pills now ready
The Department of Health has issued a reminder that parents can now pick up their children’s summer supply of fluoride tablets. The fluoride tablets may now be picked up at the government clinics in Hamilton, St. George’s and Somerset between 8.30 a.m. and 12.30 p.m. or 1.45 p.m. and 4.45 p.m. The Department of Health […]
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DuPont’s C8 contamination widespread, EPA says
In June 1984, officials from DuPont Co. put together a list of sampling results from drinking water near the company’s Parkersburg chemical plant. The list, called “Update on C8 in water samples,” was marked “personal and confidential.” A March sample from Washington showed 1.2 parts per billion. A June sample from Lubeck found 1.5 parts […]
United States, West Virginia Perfluorinated chemicals -
PUD letter will oppose Port Angeles water fluoridation
PORT ANGELES — Clallam County Public Utility District No. 1 commissioners agreed Monday to write a letter opposing planned fluoridation of the city water supply. The letter will be given to fluoridation opponents, who will present it to the City Council during a public hearing set July 28-29 at 6-9 p.m. both nights in the […]
United States, Washington State