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Portland: The election may be over, but fluoride is still a hot topic
A new petition recently submitted to the City of Portland called the ‘Portland Clean Water Measure’ could be the next move in the fluoride debate. On May 21, voters defeated a measure to put fluoride into Portland’s drinking water. It was the first time in 30 years that the issue had been put on the […]
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Banana Shire: Council yet to decide on fluoride despite installation
FLUORIDATION equipment worth $738,652 will be installed at Biloela and Moura’s water treatment plants but council still hasn’t decided if they will turn the equipment on. The design and construction of fluoridation dosing systems will be funded from a State Government grant but Banana Shire will have to pay the costs to operate the system […]
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Portland: Health Authority director asks for review of how fluoride report was handled
The Oregon Health Authority has staunchly maintained that there was nothing inappropriate about the fact that state officials managing a survey of kids’ oral health met with the architects of Portland’s pro-fluoride campaign in January. Despite e-mails indicating a staffer had gone over details (though no specific data) of the report with Upstream Public Health […]
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Memphis: Fluoridation Altercation
Local fluoride opponents bare their teeth For decades, municipalities across the country have added fluoride to public water as a cost-effective way of reducing tooth decay. According to the American Dental Association, more than 70 percent of Americans who are served by public water systems receive optimally fluoridated water. Memphis Light, Gas & Water (MLGW) […]
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Allahabad: Exercise to check quality of water in district villages from June
ALLAHABAD: The district authorities have dispatched over 1,000 field testing kits and study materials to 20 blocks to check water quality in 1,425 villages. The district aims to check areas where ground water contains arsenic or fluoride substances. District Development Officer (DDO) RC Pandey told TOI “after dispatching water field testing kits and holding subsequent […]
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Portland, Oregon, Votes Down Plan to Fluoridate its Water, Again
For the fourth time since the 1950s, voters in Portland, Oregon, a city known for its embrace of progressive values, last week voted down a plan passed by the city commission to fluoridate its water. A local paper tried to make sense of it all: For people used to thinking of Portland as the earnestly quirky liberal […]
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Fluoridation of Fraser Coast water will stop on Thursday
SUPPORTERS of fluoride should stockpile water on Wednesday because fluoridation of Fraser Coast water is set to stop on Thursday. The decision came after the council voted to cease the controversial practice 8-3 at a February ordinary meeting. It was a vote made possible following an LNP decision late last year to remove the mandate […]
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Hamilton health experts bare teeth over fluoride in water
Hamilton’s less well-off families will be hit in the teeth – and their wallets – if fluoride is eliminated from the city’s water supply, say some Waikato health professionals. A heavyweight team of health professionals did their best to persuade Hamilton city councillors that the ongoing addition of fluoride to the supply was the best […]
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Sarnia: Advocates, opponents argue whether to keep fluoride in drinking water
For Allison Whyte, getting fluoride out of drinking water is a personal matter. The 53-year-old’s two daughters developed fluorosis – a mottling of the teeth caused by excessive fluoride – when they were 10 and 12 years old. Her solution: get rid of the controversial chemical. “I got Culligan water, I didn’t have fluoride treatments […]
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Ohio-WV: C8 medical panel decides protocol
Medical monitoring protocols have been established by the three-member C8 Medical Monitoring Panel. … The six affected water districts that were part of the C8 lawsuit are Belpre, Little Hocking, Pomeroy and Tuppers Plains in Ohio and Lubeck Public Service District and Mason County PSD in West Virginia. The original class action was filed in […]
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