A sign welcomes people to Girdwood. (Bill Roth / ADN File) Months after the problem started, Girdwood residents are learning that fluoridation of city drinking water there has been shut off for most of the past year and that it likely will not be fluoridated again until 2024. Anchorage Water and Wastewater Utility manager Mark […]
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Anchorage Mayor Briefly Shut Off Fluoride in City’s Water System
Note from Fluoride Action Network: Interesting that The New York Times found this story from Alaska compelling enough to produce an article on it by their journalist Michael Levenson who reports on political events. In publishing it, the paper reveals it’s shallowness on the issue of fluoride and water fluoridation. The paper highlights at the […]
Mayor Bronson temporarily shut off fluoridation of Anchorage’s water supply, against city code
Updated: 1 hour ago [7 am, Dec 15] Published: 8 hours ago The Eklutna Water Treatment Plant, photographed Tuesday, July 31, 2018, provides safe drinking water for much of Anchorage. (Loren Holmes / ADN) After a spokesman for Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson denied it happened, the mayor’s office said Tuesday that Bronson temporarily halted fluoridation […]
After attack by ADN and bloggers over fluoridation, Mayor Bronson issues statement
Today, Mayor Dave Bronson’s office released the following statement regarding the fluoridation of Anchorage’s water supply, explaining that the fluoride was briefly reduced from the water supply because staff complained that their eyes and throats were burning from the fumes. The statement is in response to an attack by various left-wing bloggers and the Anchorage […]
Anchorage mayor turned off fluoride in city water for about 5 hours
Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson had the fluoridation of the city’s water turned off for about five hours in October, according to a statement Tuesday from the mayor’s office. City code requires the fluoridation of Anchorage’s water supply. Bronson decided to stop the fluoridation while visiting the Anchorage Water and Wastewater Utility Eklutna Water Treatment Plant […]
What will happen to teeth if you stop fluoridating water?
Note from Fluoride Action Network: This article is by an anonymous writer (as was a similar article published on Nov 23, 2019). FAN critiqued the Jennifer Meyer study on Juneau and produced a press release on our findings see: More Hype Than Evidence, January 17, 2019. (EC) Back in 2007, the inhabitants of Juneau, the […]
Study: Juneau’s lack of fluoride has increased cavities in children
Note from Fluoride Action Network: This article is by an anonymous writer identified only as a “Contributor” to the paper. FAN critiqued the Jennifer Meyer study on Juneau and produced a press release on our findings: More Hype Than Evidence on January 17, 2019. JUNEAU — Alaska’s capital stopped fluoridating its tap water about 12 […]
Two North Pole-area lakes closed because of contamination; stocking of all Eielson lakes halted
FAIRBANKS—Two North Pole-area lakes that were recently closed to fishing because of water pollution had concentrations of contaminants well above Environmental Protect Agency advisory levels. Alaska’s Department of Fish and Game announced the closure Wednesday of both Kimberly Lake, which is northwest of North Pole High School off of Roseanne Court, and Polaris Lake on […]
Juneau’s no-fluoride decision costs Medicaid $300 per child, per year
Note from Fluoride Action Network On January 17, 2019, FAN issued a press release on Dr. Meyer’s paper titled, Juneau fluoridation study: more hype than evidence. In that release Paul Connett PhD, FAN executive director, described the Meyer study as “a very poorly controlled and unblinded study that can neither rule out or rule in that […]
Juneau has no plans to add fluoride to water following study
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) – Juneau officials say there are no plans to resume fluoridating the drinking water in Alaska’s capital after the city stopped the practice more than a decade ago. The Juneau Empire reports fluoridation has received renewed scrutiny after a recent study examined dental health in Juneau, finding dental costs increased for families […]