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Manawatu District: Wave of protest over fluoride
The debate over fluoride in drinking water has washed further over the region with Manawatu District the latest target of anti-fluoride campaigners. Manawatu District Council was lobbied to review its stance on the matter as part of its draft Annual Plan submissions hearings yesterday. Six of the 100-plus submissions sought a review of fluoridation in […]
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Hamilton: Majority happy with fluoride – top doc
Waikato District Health Board medical officer of health Felicity Dumble says the high number of submissions calling for the abolition of fluoride don’t tell the whole story. Dr Dumble, who is co-ordinating the board’s submission to the Hamilton City Council hearings, points to a 2006 web-based poll, telephone survey and referendum that revealed most of […]
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Fluoride tribunal kicks off in Hamilton
A beneficial aide to preventing tooth decay, or mass medication – both sides of the fluoridation debate will get their day in court this week. A Hamilton City Council tribunal considering whether or not to keep fluoridating the city’s water supply begins four days of hearings today. The council voted in December to establish the […]
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Sarnia: Fluoride Debate
A public meeting to discuss the inclusion of fluoride in Sarnia’s drinking water is to be held tomorrow. The Lambton Area Water Supply System asked member municipalities to provide their position on continued fluoride use at the water treatment plant. Solicitor/Clerk Brian Knott says council endorsed the request at its April 29th meeting. Input received […]
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Potsdam: Letter to Mayor Steve Yurgartis and the Board of Trustees
Dear Mayor Yurgartis and Members of the Board of Trustees, Cancer Action NY has become active in an effort underway in Watertown to bring an end to fluoridation of city water. We are a member of Watertown Anti-Fluoridation Action. Please visit the Facebook page for this group. The page provides access to a great quantity […]
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Hamilton’s fluoride tribunal starts tomorrow
A four-day tribunal hearing to decide whether to continue to add fluoride to Hamilton’s water begins tomorrow. The hearing – involving hundreds of people before city councillors sitting on the tribunal – runs from tomorrow until Thursday, then continues on Tuesday 4 June. Deliberations by city councillors and a decision whether to continue fluoridation will […]
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Palmerston North: Science will give decision bite
OPINION: Palmerston North Mayor Jono Naylor has made the right call to seek expert advice on water fluoridation after the city council was awash with submissions for the practice to be stopped. As the Standard reported on Friday, the Ministry of Health has been asked to review its long-entrenched stance on fluoridation in the face […]
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Toxic groundwater threatens lives of Bangaloreans
Pollution of ground water in Bangalore city has touched alarming levels with unacceptable levels of hardness, fluoride, nitrate and chromium recorded in a recent study by the Geological Survey of India. Citizens face the risk of kidney, liver, lung and brain damage, even as the blood is starved of oxygen due to various pollutants. Children […]
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Springville will continue its municipal fluoridation
The village of Springville Board of Trustees voted to not form a committee to examine the municipal water fluoridation, after each board member and eight community members spoke about the subject, at the May 20 meeting. Mark Maussner, a town of Concord resident, who initially brought the issue to the board, first spoke out against […]
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Racism and Classism in the Argument for Fluoridation in Portland’s Water
Today is the final day of voting in the Portland special election that will decide whether fluoride is added to the city’s water. Most U.S. cities already have fluoride in the water. Portland is the largest city that doesn’t. Portland residents have repeatedly voted against it. Recently, the city council decided to implement it anyway, […]
United States, Oregon