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Anti-Fluoride Lobby Rallies Top Support
Politicians and water supply specialists have joined anti-fluoride activists in the call for a rethink on advanced plans to fluoridate our water. This emerged yesterday at a meeting of the parliamentary portfolio committee on water affairs and forestry, which held the investigative session after recent reports of fluoride poisoning in Ireland, following a system failure […]
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Fluoridation stopped in Mount Alexander Shire
The people of Mount Alexander Shire have won a battle to stop fluoride being added to their water supply. Coliban Water has heeded petitions and newspaper polls rejecting fluoride, as part of an $80 million upgrade of central Victoria’s water supplies. The chairman of Coliban Water, Gordon McKern, says the water authority has listened to […]
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Judge gets it right
JUSTICE ROBERT LYNN has a habit of making wise decisions on the Superior Court bench. Last week’s ruling in the case over the fluoridation of Manchester’s water supply was no different. Last Tuesday, Lynn ruled that Manchester broke state law when it added fluoride to its water supply a year and a half ago. State […]
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NAS panel reaffirms effectiveness of fluoride
Washington — An independent review of the scientific evidence for national dietary recommendations supports an increased level of public and policy confidence in the effectiveness of fluoride in reducing tooth decay at all ages, a National Academy of Sciences panel said June 10. Today’s stories Texas lawsuit Amalgam bill HIPAA chat Call to action The […]
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Free Toothbrush Program Cuts Tooth Decay Among Poor
THREE health projects in Glasgow have been praised for improving patient care. Health Minister Malcolm Chisholm said cancer care, oral hygiene for children and GP prescribing should be shared and copied all over Scotland. He said the Glasgow’s Chronic Cancer Pain Integrated Care Pathway had improved the way patients are treated and gives patients complete […]
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Be rational, anti-fluoride campaigner urges
A religious-type fervour continues to keep some people committed to putting fluoride in water supplies, American chemistry lecturer and anti-fluoride campaigner Paul Connett said in Timaru yesterday. He said there was rational scientific argument that fluoride did not achieve the results against tooth decay that dental associations and some governments said they did. “Firstly, the […]
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Fluoride advocates ‘scared’ – won’t defend policy in open public debate
Health authorities are prepared to parrot other people’s studies to back fluoridation but are too scared to debate the issue, visiting American lobbyist Paul Connett says. Chemistry professor Dr Connett, who spoke to a Timaru audience last night about the perils of fluoridation after a talk in Methven at the weekend, said yesterday that health […]
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ADA blasts report on dental office waste
The Association has analyzed what it asserts is an “egregiously inaccurate” report on the handling and recycling of dental office waste and has refuted the accusation that organized dentistry has not acted in an environmentally responsible and ethical manner. “The dental community cares deeply about all matters affecting public health. Our record speaks for itself,” […]
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Lakewood Challenges Health Department Mandate
A countywide fluoridation mandate will go before voters in Lakewood this fall. The Lakewood Water District’s Board of Commissioners unanimously has agreed to let ratepayers vote whether the district should fluoridate its water, a directive from the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department. The health board in April decided to require all county water systems serving 5,000 […]
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Judge: City broke law in fluoridating
A judge has ruled that Manchester city officials violated state law when they introduced fluoride into the regional water supply 18 months ago. He ordered it shut off by April 1, 2004. In the meantime, Superior Court Judge Robert J. Lynn ruled on Tuesday, Manchester city officials could either get state law changed or hold […]
United States, New Hampshire