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Children’s Dental Health Project (CDHP) is shutting down
Note from Fluoridation Action Network The CDHP was at the forefront of fluoridation led by PR expert Matt Jacob who doesn’t work at CDHP anymore. Jacob has his own consulting firm, Jacob Strategies LLC, and is “a communications consultant” for the American Fluoridation Society. Jacob earned his fluoridation chops successfully lobbying for the fluoridation mandate […]
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City of Fredericksburg: Fluoride limitation fails
A fright about fluoride led by activists brought out voters, who agreed with their dentists and rejected a City of Fredericksburg charter amendment that sought to prevent the city from putting a fluoride additive into its water supply. Opposed by the entire local dental community and many doctors, voters turned out to vote “no” to […]
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Public Trust in Tap Water May Hinge on Fluoride Link to Child IQ
National Academies committee to review finding that high fluoride exposure could decrease children’s IQ Final assessment could influence local governments’ decisions to fluoridate water supplies A federal agency’s preliminary finding that high concentrations of fluoride may decrease children’s IQ will, if finalized, be hard to explain to the public, scientists said Nov. 6. The National […]
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North Attleboro. Editorial: Our View: Arrogance at North’s DPW
Pretend that your boss ordered you to do something. Now, pretend you ignored that order — for eight years. And you not only ignored the order, but you kept it hidden from your boss that entire time. What would you expect? You would expect to be fired, of course. We expect nothing less should happen […]
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Half empty: Officials, others dread thought of another fluoride vote in North Attleboro
A 2000 referendum on whether to put fluoride into the public drinking water tore the town apart with frequent infighting and hard feelings, and now North Attleboro may have to relive that experience. The prospect of another fluoride referendum has many town officials and residents aghast as they remember the fight over the last referendum […]
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Testing shows pollution still too high at former N.C. smelting plant
Contamination levels of cyanide and fluoride at Alcoa’s Badin Works facility in Badin, North Carolina, are higher than a new permit allows. (© Nancy Pierce/Flight by Southwings) Residents of the community surrounding North Carolina’s Badin Lake celebrated in June when SELC negotiated a settlement requiring a former aluminum smelting operation, shuttered in the ‘90s, to […]
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Gloucester. Letter: Councilor must listen to constituents
To the editor: Incumbent councilors at-large Melissa Cox and Jamie O’Hara do their homework. They also respectfully listen to their constituents, whether they agree with them or not. They deserve to be reelected. Candidates for councilors at large Chris DiMercurio Sicuranza, Peter Cannavo, John McCarthy and Joe Ciolino also seem to share those traits. Any […]
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Fluoride’s Brain Research is Alarming and Growing
NEW YORK, Oct. 30, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Water fluoridation is linked to Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) (Environment International December 2019), adding to the growing pile of scientific literature linking fluoride to neurological disorders e.g. lower IQ, Autism, poor memory, dementia, Alzheimer’s Disease. Governments failed to determine fluoride’s toxic brain effects before declaring fluoridation safe in the early 1900’s, reports the […]
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Archives: Acid leak over Texas City sends 800 to the hospital in 1987
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — As trick or treaters prepared to hit the streets of Texas City on Halloween of 1987, an accident occurred at the Marathon Petroleum plant sending a cloud of hydrofluoric acid streaming over the city. More than 3000 people across 50 city blocks were evacuated. More than 800 people went to the […]
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Editorial: Governor, get this poison out of our water
OPINION — For the past several years the Fayette County Commission in its annual legislative requests to the Georgia General Assembly has included one that would have the state law mandating the fluoridation of public water supplies changed. Given recent and ongoing research, it appears that commissioners were ahead of the curve in attempting to […]
United States, Georgia
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