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Customers’ input sought for South Blount utility meeting
MARYVILLE – Officials of Blount County’s Community Health Initiative are calling on customers served by the South Blount County Utility District to express their views about the district’s decision to eliminate fluoride from the water it delivers. Laura Harrill, director of community outreach for Blount Memorial Hospital and facilitator of the health initiative, said the […]
United States, Tennessee -
State proposal could force fluoridation
LITTLE ROCK – A joint committee of the Arkansas General Assembly is considering a proposal which would mandate fluoridation of all public water systems in the state. A hearing on Interim Study Proposal 2003-157 was held in September by the Joint Committee on Public Health, Welfare and Labor. Currently, the option of water fluoridation is […]
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City waiting to remove fluoride
Mount Pleasant residents wanted to know when fluorid will be taken out of their water at Monday’s Cit Commission meeting City officials said the fluoride has not been removed and residents asked when it would be done. Voters approved city Proposal 1 by a 52 percent to 48 percent majority Nov. 2, forcing the city […]
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Tracking Fluoride in the National Food Supply
The Agricultural Research Service has launched a database that lists the level of fluoride in 400 separate food and beverage items. The list will be important to researchers who strive to estimate the amount of fluoride that individuals consume daily. For more than half a century, to prevent tooth decay, small amounts of fluoride have […]
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More Tooth Decay in Poor Children; Fluoridation No Help
NEW YORK, Nov. 8 /PRNewswire/ — “Caries experience may be associated with income,” reports the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Low income, not fluoridation deficiency, predicts more cavities is revealed in newly-released statistics posted 10/25/04 on the CDC’s website(1). Those states reporting third-graders cavity rates and children living below the federal poverty level indicate […]
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City yet to address issue of residents allergic to fluoride
Melvin Pierce remembers the day when he got the call that his daughter, April, had been rushed to the hospital. “She was at school and suddenly got extremely ill, throwing up and her skin getting red,” Pierce said. Pierce said doctors determined the culprit was a fluoride treatment that April, now 14 years old, had […]
United States, Missouri -
Davis fluoridation likely to endure
FARMINGTON — Davis County voters apparently have seen the last of fluoride on their ballots. By a vote of 51,581 to 49,399 — a 51 to 49 percent tally — residents decided to continue fluoridation of their drinking water with one part fluoride per million to help fight child tooth decay. Tuesday’s vote was the […]
United States, Utah -
Davis will stay with fluoride
FARMINGTON — The closest race in Davis County was once again fluoridation of drinking water. With 100 percent of the vote counted early today, residents narrowly decided to keep fluoridating their water. The final vote was 51,581, or 51 percent, in favor and 49.399, or 48.9 percent, opposed. Davis County Clerk/Auditor Steve Rawlings had been […]
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Fluoride addition fails in Hutchinson
An initiative to stop the city of Hutchinson from adding fluoride to the water was supported by voters on Election Day. A few percentage points separated the vote late Tuesday evening: 52 percent of voters checked the “yes” box, which will prevent an additional dose of fluoride being added to the city water supply. Fluoridation […]
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No More Fluoride in Mt. Pleasant
Mount Pleasant residents voted yes on Proposal 1 makin it unlawful to continue putting fluoride in the water The ballot initiative passed 3,234 to 2,990 Tuesday making it unlawful for the city to add any chemical to water that would affect physical or mental functions. Gladys Mitchell, of the anti-fluoride group Mount Pleasant Citizens for […]
United States, Michigan