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Ipswich. Fluoride furore: 68% say we don’t want it in our water
IPSWICH residents are calling for the controversial additive fluoride to be removed from the city’s drinking water, a Queensland Times poll has revealed. Three hundred QT readers responded to an online poll asking if Ipswich’s drinking water should contain added fluoride, with a resounding 68% responding “no”. Ipswich City Council was handed the power to […]
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Upstate NY: Get your fluoride questions ready
Experts on both sides of the water fluoridation debate will answer questions in separate live chats online at Syracuse.com. The village of Pulaski in Oswego County recently decided to stop fluoridating its water. Dr. Cynthia Morrow, commissioner of health for Onondaga County, will be taking syracuse.com readers’ questions Thursday from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Paul […]
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Pulaski fluoride story was biased, says head of anti-fluoride group
Editor’s note: This is an unedited letter to reporter Marnie Eisenstadt about the story she wrote Sunday on Pulaski’s decision to stop fluoridating its water. Connett gave permission for it to be published. Marnie, your pro-fluoridation connections are showing. Back in 2005 you wrote a front-page article for the Syracuse Post-Standard (M. Eisenstadt, “How Fluoride […]
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Column. Bradford: Keep the Ban on Fluoridation
When getting my Ph.D. at Dartmouth, I relied on the Valley News for well-informed opinion; thus, I was deeply shocked to read its Dec. 2 editorial on water fluoridation. Having researched this issue for 16 years, first as a professor of environmental chemistry and then as director of the Fluoride Action Network, I believe this […]
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Editorial. Reckless ‘Caution’: Decision to stop fluoridation not evidence-based
Water fluoridation is just counterintuitive enough to keep controversy alive — even though the process has worked for 65 years to reduce child and adult tooth decay. First, there’s reflexive reluctance to add a chemical to the public water supply — without the informed consent of constituents. Then there’s the fact that concentrated fluoride is […]
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Will Portland City Council push for a fluoride vote in 2013?
Fluoride proponents are testing the waters at Portland City Hall to see if officials will schedule a public vote sometime in 2013 instead of 2014. Last month, opponents blocked the City Council’s unanimous September decision that would have added fluoride to drinking water reaching roughly 900,000 residents in Portland and the suburbs. The successful referendum […]
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Patea and Waverley: Council backs fluoride for towns
Patea and Waverley’s water will be fluoridated for the first time, with the controversial practice getting majority support from the South Taranaki District Council. During a special meeting held yesterday, councillors voted 10-3 to put the chemical in the water supply. The council received 508 submissions on the issue. A total of 345 didn’t want […]
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Fed Govt slams calls to ban fluoride in Queensland water
ELEANOR HALL: The Federal Government has condemned the calls from within the Queensland Government to outlaw the fluoridation of water. The Queensland Government has already revoked compulsory fluoridation, handing the decision to councils, but a Liberal National Party backbencher has gone further, arguing for fluoride to be banned. Stephanie Smail reports. STEPHANIE SMAIL: The Queensland […]
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Vote: No fluoride in Pine Island water supply
PINE ISLAND, FL -After months of debate, the Greater Pine Island Water Association says it will not add fluoride to its customers’ water. Board members voted on the controversial issue Tuesday afternoon. It was a big win for a small but very vocal group of neighbors living on Pine Island. The Water Association fought for […]
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Fluoridated water reduces dental cavities in kids
A fluoridation survey by the Health Ministry’s community dental medicine department has shown that supplying fluoridated water in the drinking water significantly reduced dental cavities in children in 2011 and 2012. The survey, led by Prof. Harold Sgan-Cohen, sampled the teeth of more than 2,000 12-year-olds in the modern Orthodox and Arab sectors in five […]
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