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Fluoride shortage hits town
SHREWSBURY— A nationwide shortage of fluoride has caused the town to temporarily discontinue placing it in the municipal water supply, a news release from the town’s Board of Health said yesterday. The town added hydrofluosilicic acid to the water supply to help prevent tooth decay, the release said, and noted the addition of the fluoride […]
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Pierce County Dentist Speaks Out Against Bellingham Fluoride initiative.
I am a member of the Pierce County Dental Society, the Washington State Dental Society ( WSDA ) and the American Dental Association ( ADA ). I am also a member of the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology. As a dentist who works in Pierce County, Washington, I must take exception to the […]
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Fluoride controversy in Homer
Roy Crandall refuses to drink water with fluoride in it. “I said at one time anyone that bought bottled water was crazy because the Homer water was good, but then I started reading about fluoride and decided I didn’t want any part of the fluoride,” he said. The Homer trustee wants the village to stop […]
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Springfield to vote on fluoridation again
Springfield city commissioners agreed to place two issues before voters in November. Commissioners reviewed two petitions at their meeting Tuesday night — one to fluoridate Springfield’s water and another a charter amendment to establish a hospital oversight board. Last week the Clark County Board of Elections determined that both petitions contained enough valid signatures. Springfield […]
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Albany threatened again with fluoridation plan
Dr. Joseph Hart’s bookshelf has a section dedicated to fluoride. Since dental school in the late 1960s, the town of Bethlehem dentist has saved everything from comic strips on fluoridation to the letters he’s sent off to officials in Albany and his own town asking them to please add fluoride to the public water supply. […]
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Bellows Falls fluoride debate in voter’s hands
BELLOWS FALLS — It will be up to voters to decide next year if the village should continue its 30-year practice of fluoridating its water after some local officials raised concerns over its alleged health implications. Bellows Falls Village President Charles Jarras said Thursday that an Australian ballot question before village voters at the annual […]
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EPA Unions Call on Agency, Congress To Recognize Carcinogenicity of Fluoride
Unions representing Environmental Protection Agency employees and other public health professionals have asked Congress to impose a nationwide moratorium on drinking water flouridation programs and called on EPA to set a goal of reducing the amount of fluoride in drinking water based on evidence it is associated with cancer. The request, set forth in letters […]
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EPA unions call for moratorium on fluoride in drinking water
WASHINGTON –Eleven unions representing more than 7,000 workers at the Environmental Protection Agency are calling for a national moratorium on programs to add fluoride to drinking water, citing what they call a possible cancer risk. In a letter to EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson, the unions say the agency should act even before a committee of […]
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Forum offers both sides of fluoride issue
Bellingham’s City Club hosted the first public forum Wednesday featuring representatives from both sides of Bellingham’s contentious water fluoridation debate. Leaders of Bellingham Families for Fluoride and Citizens Against Forced Fluoride shared the podium for a 45-minute discussion and question-and-answer period moderated by Gerald Pumphrey, Bellingham Technical College president. Both sides hit key points they’ve […]
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Burlington fluoridating water with hydrofluorosilicic acid
The Safe Water Advocates of Burlington (SWAB) urged the Burlington City Council last week to remove fluoride from the city’s drinking water, charging that it was “toxic waste” and a “by-product of the phosphate fertilizer industry.” Burlington has been fluoridating city water since 1952, using a chemcial called hydrofluorosilicic acid. In June, the Burlington Board […]
United States, Vermont