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A recently uncovered document reveals that New York City infants are fluoride overdosed and risk fluoride-damaged teeth, especially when infant formula is mixed with NYC’s fluoride-laced public water supplies, reports the New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc. (NYSCOF). To avoid moderate dental fluorosis (fluoride-damaged teeth) the Institute of Medicine (1997) recommends 6-month-olds and younger […]

Adding fluoride to the water supply has been a hotly debated, and at times confusing, topic in Ithaca for more than 50 years. “I’ve been here since 1971 and this has always been an issue,” said Marcia Lynch, Tompkins County’s public information officer. Below are answers to common questions about fluoridation in Ithaca. 1 — Is […]

It’s unthinkable, that 70 years after fluoride was first put into a public water system preventing untold number of cavities in the American population that a Central New York community again voted down fluoridation. The City of Oneida Tuesday voted not to put fluoride in its water supply. It followed similar votes in 2002 and […]

ONEIDA – Fluoridating the city water supply was rejected at Tuesday night’s Common Council meeting with 5 “No” votes and a sole “Yes,” from Helen Acker. Voting “No” were common councilors Brahim Zogby, Michael Bowe, Erwin Smith, Jim Chamberlain and Tom Simchik. “I followed the medical issue and did homework,” said Acker on Wednesday concerning […]

ONEIDA – Fluoridation of the water supply will be put to a vote at the May 5 Oneida Common Council meeting according to an agenda released Friday. Among other agenda items, the council will receive and place on file a form notifying the city of the intent of the Kallet Civic Center to file for […]

More than a dozen people shared their opinions during a Tuesday night public hearing on a proposed law that would fluoridate the City of Oneida water supply. There were about 55 in attendance. The hearing, the first agenda item of the night at the Oneida Common Council meeting, lasted just shy of two hours. About […]

A public hearing on a proposed fluoridation law is at the top of the Oneida Common Council agenda for Tuesday, April 21. Later in the agenda, relating to the issue of fluoride, council will receive and file communications from: Peter Hedglon of Oneida; Donna Westfall of Crescent City, Calif; Dona Fiedler of Sherrill, and others […]

ONEIDA – Oneida residents had the opportunity to sit in on two meetings regarding fluoridation of the city’s water supply Monday. The first was held by Dr. Paul Connett at the Oneida Public Library, where about a dozen people attended to hear the Fluoride Action Network (www.fluoridealert.org) director speak. He noted that 97 percent of […]

ONEIDA – A two-item special meeting has been called for Monday, March 23 in the Oneida Common Council Chambers located at 109 North Main St. The meeting begins at 6:30 p.m. On the agenda will be an update on the FEMA buyout program for home in the Flats neighborhood that were flooded in June of […]