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• City of Austin water policy concern

  Questions arose over City of Austin water quality Nov. 9 at Travis County Commissioners Court when Dr. Paul Connett, professor emeritus of chemistry at St. Lawrence University in New York, persuaded the court to take a serious look at Austin’s fluoridation policy. Attention to the issue has been growing since Austin’s Environmental Board requested an […]

• Debate over fluoridating water heads to more receptive Austin council

  Former Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell tersely ticked off to a crowd of fluoride detractors last year why he wasn’t going to budge: They had no scientific evidence, his own dentist supports adding fluoride to drinking water, and a City Council committee had even “gone to the trouble” of vetting the issue. The council sided with […]

• Austin: Two groups disclaim anti-fluoride email

  Note from FAN: The only group in Austin opposing fluoridation is Fluoride Free Austin, and, they are doing a great job against tremendous odds. Clean Water Action is a national group with chapters in several states. As far as we can discern, only its New Jersey chapter has actively opposed fluoridation, see it’s anti-water fluoridation […]

• Austin will continue fluoridating city water

  Amid yelps of “you’re murderers” and “you’re hurting the kids,” two Austin City Council committees decided they didn’t buy claims that fluoridating drinking water does little to prevent tooth decay and poses health risks. The council’s Public Utilities Committee and Health and Human Services Committee took no action Wednesday on a resolution calling for the […]

• Fluoride Is too toxic of an issue for Austin City Council

  The quality and purity of the drinking water supply has a dramatic influence on the public’s health. What if a sub-population is known to be negatively affected by something artificially added to the water … should city government stop adding that substance, or at least warn the people so that they can make an informed […]

• Fluoride Is too toxic of an issue for Austin City Council

  The quality and purity of the drinking water supply has a dramatic influence on the public’s health. What if a sub-population is known to be negatively affected by something artificially added to the water … should city government stop adding that substance, or at least warn the people so that they can make an informed […]

• Austin: City Council Is prescribing medicine? Austin experts testify to the dangers of the forced medication of artificial water fluoridation

  Fluoride History: Sixty years ago the U.S. Center for Disease Control proposed that fluoride be added to drinking water to prevent cavities. In December 2009, the Austin Environmental Board recommended that city council evaluate the costs and benefits of water fluoridation. In July 2010, Austin Health and Human Services warned mothers not to give fluoridated […]

• Austin: Group voices concern over fluoride level in city water

  While many city officials tout the benefits of adding fluoride to the public water supply, some Austin activists question the safety of the practice on the grounds that the additive is a hazardous waste. Members of Fluoride Free Austin distributed fliers warning against fluoridation — a practice that has been used in Austin for nearly […]

• Austin: Environmental board calls for water fluoridation study

  The Austin Environmental Board posed a question at Wednesday’s meeting that a city report failed to answer: Does Austin’s water fluoridation practices pose a threat to the city’s public health? Water fluoridation is the addition of fluoride to public water supplies to reduce tooth decay. A report on the practice was called into question at […]

• Austin Fluoride Free Hunger Strike Continues

  An Austin activist group continues a hunger strike that will remain ongoing until the Austin City Council responds to their request to end water fluoridation in the city’s water supply. Currently members Jason Needham and Nicholas Lucier are the public faces for the Austin Fluoride Hunger Strike, working to bring attention to the issue by […]