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Bellows Falls trustees weigh fluoridation issue
BELLOWS FALLS — Village trustees listened to arguments on both sides of the water fluoridation issue at their regular board meeting on Tuesday. Health officials, activists and science writers traveled from Keene and Charlestown, N.H., and from Springfield and Burlington, to state why they think adding fluoride to public water supplies is good policy, or […]
United States, Vermont -
Council backs congressional fluoride probe
WATSONVILLE — The City Council on Tuesday night backed a request by EPA unions calling for a congressional investigation into the possible harmful effects of adding fluoride to the water supplies of cities. But the council stopped short of calling for a nationwide moratorium on the practice, a measure that has existed for more than […]
United States, California -
Watsonville council fired up on fluoride
The Watsonville City Council fanned the flames of debate on water fluoridation Tuesday when it agreed to support a call from Environmental Protection Agency unions requesting investigations into possible links between fluoride and bone cancer. Despite fierce debate, the council passed the motion suggested by Judy Doering-Nielsen, but removed part of the original resolution, which […]
United States, California -
Hood River council yanks fluoride
The City of Hood River has dropped a ballot measure that asked voters to weigh in on the issue of water fluoridation. On Monday, the council withdrew the proposal that was headed to 3,452 registered city voters in the Nov. 1 general election. “The cost of the election and an almost certain legal challenge could […]
United States, Oregon -
Fluoride opponents’ argument gains teeth
Albert Burgstahler is convinced Lawrence residents have been forced to swallow a giant government mistake for more than 50 years. “Anybody who drinks more than two or three quarts of water per day may be subject to problems,” said Burgstahler, a professor emeritus of chemistry at Kansas University. That’s because Lawrence’s water, like that drunk […]
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Fluoride is back in city water
Fluoride is again being injected into the city of Goldsboro’s water, after city officials received a letter of reassurance from the state health director. Fluoride injections stopped in June after concerns were raised by studies that indicated possible problems with possible lead contamination when fluoride interacted with chloramines in the water. But those concerns were […]
United States, North Carolina -
Bellows Falls trustees to take up fluoride issue
BELLOWS FALLS, Vt. Village trustees in Bellows Falls (Vermont) plan this week to revisit a long-running debate over adding fluoride to public water supplies. The village has done so for three decades in an effort to fight tooth decay. But now Luise Light — a trustee who is also a nutritionist — is urging her […]
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Mercury disposal by dentists becomes focus of DEP review
HARRISBURG – The office of Donald Robbins looks more like a science laboratory than a dental-exam room. The Exton dentist uses an atomic spectrometer, intra-oral camera, and high-efficiency mercury air cleaner to keep his patients and staff free from mercury, an ingredient in fillings that some say can cause serious health problems. Robbins is proud […]
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EPA unions call for halt to water fluoridation
A study that allegedly showed a link between fluoride in drinking water and bone cancer in male children has triggered a renewed call for a moratorium on fluoridation. Eleven unions representing about 7,000 of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s 12,000 unionized employees sent letters to a key congressional committee calling for the moratorium pending a […]
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EPA Unions Call for Nationwide Moratorium on Fluoridation
Eleven EPA employee unions representing over 7000 environmental and public health professionals of the Civil Service have called for a moratorium on drinking water fluoridation programs across the country, and have asked EPA management to recognize fluoride as posing a serious risk of causing cancer in people. The unions acted following revelations of an apparent […]
United States, National USA