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Fluoride lawsuit delayed until fall
VISTA —- The final decision on whether Escondido can fluoridate its water will have to wait about five more months, officials said Monday. Although jury selection in a trial set to determine the issue was scheduled Monday, Superior Court Judge Jacqueline Stern decided late Friday to postpone the trial until Oct. 12 because of scheduling […]
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School alerted to fluoride release
By Sam Richards CONTRA COSTA TIMES An accidental release of high levels of fluoride into Pleasanton’s city water system early Monday appears to have had few, if any, adverse effects, say city officials. Contractors had shut down the water system to replace a valve at the city’s pumping station at Santa Rita Road and Black […]
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Fluoride floods water supply
PLEASANTON — Students at Alisal Elementary School and Amador Valley High School were warned not to drink the water Monday morning after a work crew accidentally released a high concentration of fluoride into the water system the night before. City officials said the crew was working to replace a valve at the water pumping station […]
United States, California -
Fluoride Causes a Close Call for an Area Child
(KAAL)– It looked like Kool-Aid…it tasted like bubble gum…so he swallowed it. Tonight a northern Iowa couple is thankful their 3-year-old son survived fluoride poisoning unharmed. Last week Josef Dethlefsen drank several ounces of his sister’s anticavity fluoride rinse. Hours later Josef had a seizure. He had to be treated at St. Mary’s intensive care […]
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Poisonous acid leakage controlled in east China
HANGZHOU, May 17 (Xinhuanet) — Police and relief workers had controlled by Monday morning a poisonous hydrofluoric acid leakage from a tank truck on a highway in east China’s Zhejiang province, and no casualties were reported, sources from the local government said. Traffic police officers said that the leak happened at 5:05 p.m.Sunday when the […]
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Court rules fluoridation can’t be ordered
The Tacoma-Pierce County Board of Health doesn’t have the authority to order water systems in the county to fluoridate their water, the state Supreme Court ruled yesterday. Individual water districts are empowered by state law to decide whether to include the dental-cavity-preventing chemical in their water supplies, the justices said in the 6-3 decision. The […]
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Fluoride mandate loses in court
The Washington State Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Board overstepped its authority when it mandated that local water providers add fluoride to drinking water. The ruling reversed a February 2003 decision by the Pierce County Superior Court that had upheld the board’s broad power to regulate and supervise public health. The […]
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Pelham debates fluoridation question again
Standing before Pelham’s City Council for its recent Youth Government Day, Kamryn Sherman asked the city to consider putting fluoride in its water system. The issue was simple for the fifth-grader from Valley Intermediate School: Fluoride helps your teeth. But for some grown-ups in Shelby County, placing anything in the water is cause for concern. […]
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Linton fluoride survey ‘very close,’ mayor says
The question of whether or not Linton will add fluoride to its water is still being debated. At Monday night’s Linton City Council meeting, mayor Tom Jones — noting that residents have a chance to show approval or disapproval of fluoridation by answering a survey question on their April utility bills — said, “It’s going […]
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Lancaster fluoridation debate may go to voters
LANCASTER — Two city councilmen objected Monday to the way the city was handling the issue of putting fluoride into the city water supply. The first reading of legislation that would let voters decide the issue Nov. 2 was held Monday night. Councilman Rudy Touvell (D-6th Ward) said that when the issue was brought before […]
United States, Ohio