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Marlborough: Council quizzed about fluoride
Marlborough district councillors are being asked to weigh in on the fluoride debate. Marlborough District Council assets and services committee chairman Graeme Taylor said he would raise the controversial topic after his committee meeting tomorrow afternoon. Fluoride in water made headlines last week after Hamilton District Council voted 7-1 to remove fluoride from its water […]
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Watertown. Editorial: Keep fluoride
Monday’s City Council meeting will finally present a forum for a fair hearing on whether the city should continue its near 50-year practice of adding fluoride to the water supply. The Jefferson-Lewis County Dental Society is prepared to expose the council to the science and facts that substantiate the value of use of minuscule amounts […]
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State dental head will discuss fluoride with Watertown City Council
Dr. Jayanth V. Kumar, a dentist for 30 years and the director of the state’s Bureau of Dental Health, went to Walden, Orange County, last week to persuade officials there to put fluoride back in the public water supply. On Monday, he will travel from Albany to persuade the Watertown City Council to keep the […]
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Davis, Woodland consider adding fluoride to drinking water
For Don Saylor, it’s just common sense: Adding fluoride to drinking water in Davis and Woodland would improve dental health for 130,000 people, particularly low-income residents who can’t afford regular health visits. “This is a social justice as well as a public health issue,” said Saylor, a Yolo County supervisor. “It’s well past time to […]
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‘At least one will die’ as a result of Hamilton’s fluoridation
My profession has had a number of embarrassments either due to over-enthusiastic endorsements of a new drug or uncritical acceptance of professorial dictates and as Max Planck so aptly put it: “Changes in science occur funeral by funeral” as we have to wait 50 years for both the professors and their students to die or […]
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Alarm as anti-fluoride group eyes Wellington
Wellington will be the next major target for anti-fluoridation campaigners after their controversial triumph in Hamilton. With Hamilton City Council voting on Wednesday to remove fluoride from the city’s water, what seems like an eternal debate has been reignited. Anti-fluoride campaigner Mark Atkin said Wellington might not be the next city to go fluoride-free, but […]
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NHANES Survey: Mobile site takes Saratoga County’s pulse
A new 1,600-square-foot medical facility opens its doors Saturday in Luther Forest. Blood will be drawn, dental exams will be given, bone density will be checked. But only for seven weeks. And you can’t walk in, or even make an appointment, unless you’re invited. The facility is a mobile examination center put together here by a medical team […]
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Kapiti Coast Council consult again over fluoride
Kapiti Coast District Council will again consult with the community about whether to continue adding fluoride to local water supplies. Fluoride is currently added to public water supplied to Waikanae, Paraparaumu and Raumati but not Otaki or Paekakariki. As part of Annual Plan discussions, Council considered a number of submissions from residents who want fluoride […]
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Hamilton: First water objectors considered ‘nutters’, says councillor
Hamilton city councillor Dave Macpherson remembers submissions from disgruntled locals against fluoride in their water in the late 1990s. “You could probably loosely call them the usual suspects – just a few locals for the first three or four years. People thought they were nutters at the time or quite obsessive and some of these […]
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Mary Byrne: Against fluoride
Fluoride Action Network NZ applauds the decision of Hamilton city councillors to stop adding hydrofluorosilicic acid to their water supply. Councillors heard 3 days of evidence from both sides and came to a measured decision based on the facts. Any open-minded person would come to the same decision if they heard this evidence. There were […]
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