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Coldwater residents to have fluoride in water by next year
COLDWATER — Before the end of the year, Coldwater will have fluoride in its water. City Manager Bill Stewart urged the council to allow the public utility to go ahead with a permit and then purchase the equipment. “It’s the right thing to do,” he said. A controversial issue in the 1950’s, it was voted […]
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Lancaster Council puts fluoride on ballot
LANCASTER — Voters will be able to decide whether they want fluoride in their water. After hearing testimonials from proponents and opponents of the controversial issue, City Council voted 6-3 to place the issue on the ballot for the November General Election. Councilmen Dwight Dyke Andrews, Rudy Touvell and Karl Justus voted against the legislation. […]
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National Health Alert on Imported High-Fluoride Toothpastes
NBC 5 reporter Ken Kalthoff first broke this story in May, when he found several tubes of foreign toothpaste at eight different dollar discount stores around North Texas. Shopping undercover, our NBC 5 crew found that most of the packages look a lot like regular American brands. In fact, customers at the stores told us […]
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Drinking water no succour for this village near Agra
It’s no potion but plain drinking water that disables otherwise perfectly fit residents of Baroli Aheer, a village near Agra in Uttar Pradesh. And the cause of agony for the residents of this villages is an excessive fluoride content in the drinking water. Every second person-children as well as adults-are suffering from deformed limbs, cataract, […]
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Safe Water bites back
THE Hastings Safe Water Association is pushing for Hastings Council to reverse its decision to refer fluoridation to the NSW Government. Publicity officer Don Mackay believes the council should honour the 1991 poll or put the issue to people through another poll. “It wasn’t the people who raised putting fluoride in (the water), it was […]
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Plants detail impact of toxic releases
An unchecked release of toxic chemicals from any one of dozens of plants in the Louisville metropolitan area — from chemical plants to a commercial bakery — could sicken thousands of residents. And the potential impact can go far beyond a company’s property, according to risk-management plans filed by the companies with the U.S. Environmental […]
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A kick in the teeth
A 50-year-old medical controversy is about to be re-ignited. The government is considering the introduction of further fluoridation schemes throughout the country. To facilitate that, the Water Act passed last November indemnified water companies from civil or criminal actions as a result of adding fluoride to public water supplies. Fluoridation was first advanced in the […]
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Pinellas County starts fluoridating water
CLEARWATER – Most Pinellas County residents can expect something new in the water today. That’s when the county begins adding fluoride to its water supply, ending decades of resistance against one of the most recognized trends in preventing tooth decay. Commissioners voted 6-1 in August in favor of fluoridating water that serves more than 600,000 […]
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Campaigners launch scathing attack on MP’s Fluoridation ‘Reward’
Campaigners from Greater Manchester have reacted angrily to the news that Andy Burnham MP for Leigh has accepted an invitation to become a Vice-President of the British Fluoridation Society. The MP has led the campaign in the House of Commons to push through legislation which gives new powers to strategic health authorities to instruct water […]
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Fluorosis burst bares green secrets
KOLKATA, June 5. — The chief minister and others wearing the cap of “green” activists – leaders, officials, NGOs et al – spent World Environment Day going hammer and tongs for a cleaner and disease-free environment. But few, if any, cared to lend an ear to patients of dental fluorosis, caused by high flouride content […]
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