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Modesto City Council puts formal end to flouride plans
Sink in their teeth and hold on? Not this time. In what might be their final act on one of the more controversial local issues in the past couple of years, Modesto City Council members voted Tuesday to drop the idea of fluoridating tap water. Although a majority of council members personally favor fluoridation in […]
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Modesto City Council has next move on fluoride
Rosalie Redenbaugh’s grandson is 4, an age when some health professionals believe ingesting fluoride promotes a lifetime of strong teeth. But Redenbaugh could not have been happier with voters’ emphatic rejection Tuesday of Measure M, a proposal to add fluoride to Modesto’s water supply. “I’m so thrilled that it failed,” she said Wednesday. “I didn’t […]
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Redding poll finds mixed support for fluoride
Two-thirds of Redding residents surveyed favor water fluoridation if they don’t have to pay for it, a Shasta County Department of Public Health-commissioned poll shows. Only 44.4 percent of those sampled would swallow a $1.50 monthly water rate increase to pay for the cavity-fighting strategy. In September, the City Council endorsed a fluoride program, which […]
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Modesto rejects plan to fluoridate city water supply
Modesto voters Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected a ballot measure to fluoridate the city’s water supply. City voters approved advisory measures that could lead to annexation of 480 mostly vacant acres in the northeast and two unincorporated neighborhoods in west Modesto. With all precincts reporting at 10 p.m., 60.6 percent of voters opposed the fluoridation proposal, Measure […]
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Congresswoman Diane Watson (D – California) Introduces Bill to Ban Mercury Amalgams
In times like these, there are toxins that we don’t know much about – how to control them, their source, and their impact. But there are toxins that we DO know about — toxins that we know do not belong in our bodies, toxins that we can do something about. My bill addresses that very […]
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Initiative drive begins to stop fluoridation in Mountain View
Mountain View resident, Billie Barewald, a nurse, today commenced a signature drive to qualify for the city ballot an initiative ordinance that would prevent the city from adding fluoride or any fluoride compound to the drinking water. Fluoridation began in Mountain View in March 2001. Ten percent of the city’s 33,000 voters must sign the […]
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Watsonville city council votes to fluoridate
The Watsonville City Council voted “yes” on water fluoridation in a special meeting Tuesday night. The vote was 5 to 2. City Council members Betty Bobeda and Judy Doering-Nielsen were the only ones to say “no” to fluoridation, both expressing that there was still research that needed to be done on the issue and there […]
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Modesto City Council reverses course: Will place fluoridation on November ballot
At the June 26 City Council meeting in Modesto California, both supporters of fluoridation and advocates of safe drinking water appeared to be surprised as a previous 4 to 3 vote to fluoridate by the City Council was waylaid by a shift in support by a 4 to 3 vote in favor of voters making […]
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Hannah-Beth Jackson leads vote against testing of fluoridation products
As Chair of the California Assembly Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials in a hearing on April 24, Hannah-Beth Jackson (D- Santa Barbara) was the only Committee Member to voice her opinion on AB 1565 – The California Product Quality Control Act. Citing her memories of fluoridation being described as a communist plot, her […]
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Assembly takes up challenge to water fluoridation
Scientists will request a moratorium against fluoridation of water supplies at hearings before the state Legislature on Tuesday. At a hearing of the Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee, J. William Hirzy will testify on behalf of the union that represents all of the toxicologists, biologists, chemists, physicians and other scientists at the U.S. […]
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