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The advisory board voted 6–1 to distribute a memorandum drafted by county medical director Dr. Remington Nevin, accompanied by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Oct. 31, 2025, notice about restrictions on unapproved ingestible fluoride prescription products.Nevin summarized federal findings that some ingestible fluoride products (for example, certain sodium-fluoride tablets) should not be used in […]

The Wyandotte Municipal Services Commission voted down a resolution Wednesday to return to fluoridating its water supply. The city stopped fluoridating its water 10 years ago, when its water treatment plant was undergoing a rehabilitation project, according to the city’s website. Starting in the 1940s, municipalities around the country have added fluoride to their drinking […]

Overview: – Wyandotte officials voted against the resumption of drinking water fluoridation Wednesday. – While Wyandotte discontinued fluoride in 2015, the city website said until June of this year that it fluoridates its drinking water. – “I have my reasons why; I don’t need to make a comment,” Commissioner Christopher Brohl tells Planet Detroit after […]

ST. CLAIR COUNTY, MI (WOWO). — A long-standing public health practice is under fire in one Michigan county, as heated debate erupts over whether fluoride should remain in local drinking water. A proposal led by Dr. Remington Nevin, medical director of the St. Clair County Health Department, aims to ban the addition of fluoride to […]

PORT HURON, MI — The St. Clair County Health Advisory Board voted Wednesday, Oct. 15, to endorse Medical Director Dr. Remington Nevin’s recommendation that the county health department draft regulations prohibiting the addition of fluoride to municipal water systems. The board voted 5-2 to approve Nevin’s June 17, 2025 memorandum, which calls on Health Officer Elizabeth […]

On the far east side of Michigan, the future of fluoride in drinking water — long an ordinary practice for preventing tooth decay — has suddenly provoked passionate debate. Public meetings in St. Clair County, about an hour northeast of Detroit, have filled with people weighing in. One man waved his Fixodent denture cream before […]

PORT HURON, Mich. — The St. Clair County Health Department may soon take an unprecedented step to restrict fluoride in local drinking water. In a June 17 memorandum to Health Officer Liz King and the Advisory Board of Health, Dr. Remington Nevin, the county’s Medical Director, recommended new local regulations that would prohibit the addition […]

Overview: – Wyandotte holds first of two public hearings on water fluoridation before Oct. 22 vote.– The city’s lack of water fluoridation was flagged in a state report on Wyandotte’s drinking water system in April.– Wyandotte halted water fluoridation in 2015, but the city website did not reflect this until June. Water fluoridation is grounded […]

Bloomington’s drinking water has been without the recommended level of fluoride since late 2019, and city officials say it will be at least next year before the situation is resolved. But when fluoride levels are restored, the public will be notified. That was the message delivered to Monroe County’s board of health at its regular […]

Fluoride remains in the city’s water, months after Acting Mayor Joshua Paladino ’18 said removing it was his top priority.  “I asked the city manager to research it and bring forward a resolution, to at least give the city council an opportunity to vote on whether we should continue to fluoridate the public water supply,” […]