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Baby Your Baby: Oral Health for Babies
Note from FAN: This article is important for calculating fluoride exposure of the young child. As noted below, the recommendation is for twice-a-day brushing with a fluoride toothpaste for under three-year-olds with a grain-of-rice sized amount and over three-years with a pea-sized amount. This toothpaste will be swallowed by the child. How much fluoride is […]
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New research may be blueprint for tackling Utah’s wintertime inversion
SALT LAKE CITY — Anyone who breathes in northern Utah ought to be paying attention to the efforts of a $2 million, first-of-its-kind study analyzing the area’s notorious wintertime pollution problem. Researchers and scientists from the federal and state agencies and multiple universities have been meeting Monday and Tuesday at the University of Utah to […]
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From fluoride to lead, how to know what’s in your family’s water
You don’t have to live in Flint, Michigan, to worry about your family’s water supply. Concern about Flint’s continuing battle with lead contamination has people across the country paying closer attention to what is flowing out of their taps. In Maine, residents in seven towns voted Nov. 8 to remove fluoride from the water supply, […]
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Activist presses Davis on water supply’s fluoride levels
FARMINGTON — The optimal recommended fluoride level in drinking water to prevent tooth decay is at 0.7 milligrams of fluoride per liter of water, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. A Waterwatch of Utah official recommended on Tuesday that the Davis County Commission have the Davis Board of Health adopt that standard. “The […]
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TODAY. Salt Lake County Board of Health 5pm hearing on fluoridation & last day for written comments
The Salt Lake County Board of Health has proposed amendments to Health Regulation #33, Fluoridation in Public Water Supplies.The public comment period will end on Thursday, October 23, 2014. A copy of the proposed amendments is available for review. Written comments are preferred and will be accepted if received by 5:00 p.m. on October 23, 2014. […]
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Tipped tanker with flouride chemicals closes Clearfield and Layton road
… The vehicle was transporting the chemical hydrofluorosilicic to a large Clearfield water tank at the intersection of State Road 193 and University Park Boulevard around 11 a.m. when it tipped partially over on a steep embankment. … Hill Air Force Base, the Weber State University-Davis campus and Clearfield High School were affected by the gridlock. […]
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Fluoride fears lead Waterwatch to demand Davis documents
FARMINGTON — Davis County Health is showing little teeth when it comes to making certain its fluoride suppliers for the county’s drinking water supply are compliant with Utah law, Waterwatch of Utah founder Lorna Rosenstein says. “There are specific laws that are made to protect consumers,” Rosenstein said. One of those laws is House Bill […]
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Another North Salt Lake refinery fined by the EPA
NORTH SALT LAKE — Another Utah refinery has agreed to pay a penalty to the Environmental Protection Agency and to upgrade emissions controls for alleged violations of the Clean Air Act. Big West Oil LLC will pay a $175,000 fine and spend approximately $1.8 million on emissions controls at its North Salt Lake refinery. The […]
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Davis: County fluoride regulations now in line with state law
CLEARFIELD – The Davis County Health Department on Tuesday adopted changes to its ordinance regarding fluoride, changes that mirror state law. House Bill 72, adopted by the 2013 Utah Legislature, asks suppliers to provide documentation of the products used to fluoridate county water systems, “to ensure they’re coming from a proper source,” said Davis County […]
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The Utah SAFE DRINKING WATER DISCLOSURE ACT goes into effect today
Statute (Effective until July 1, 2013) Abstract: This part of the Utah Safe Drinking Water Act provides that public water supplies may not have fluorine added to or removed from the water supply without the approval of a majority of voters in an election in the area affected. An election shall be held: (1) upon […]
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