Fluoridation day is nearly upon us. While a major step remains before Meadville Area Water Authority can begin fluoridating the water it provides to consumers, the equipment necessary for doing so is ready to go, according to MAWA officials. “Konzell Construction has completed all of the work associated with the fluoride addition with the exception […]
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Water authority board meeting Thursday night at Valley Springs
The Ozark Mountain Regional Public Water Authority board is set to meet Thursday night in Valley Springs and chairman Andy Anderson hopes more members show up and contribute toward the appeal of the authority’s fluoridation lawsuit. Act 197 of 2011 required all water systems serving 5,000 people or more to add fluoride to drinking water. […]
College Street students treated with no-fill cavity treatment
Students at College Street Elementary School last week received free no drill cavity treatments through a state Department of Health’s pilot program involving a silver diamine fluoride sealant to affected teeth. The program involves a relatively new to the US treatment that has been used for decades worldwide. The MCS Family Resource Center and Coordinated […]
Arsenic in Some Bottled Water Brands at Unsafe Levels, Consumer Reports Says
Note from the Fluoride Action Network: This article by Consumer Reports is important because there are many people living in fluoridated communities that buy bottled water to avoid fluoride. If you drink a particular brand of spring water it would be wise to either call the producer and request the levels of all tested contaminants […]
Team Takes Fluoride from Taps and Toothpaste to Batteries
An illustration of a battery. For batteries to generate electricity, charged atoms, called ions (pink and green), travel between a negative node (anode) and a positive node (cathode) with the help of a liquid electrolyte solution. Credit: Brett Savoie, Purdue University The Science Energy-dense fluoride batteries are exciting, but they only work at high temperatures. […]
Bruceton to stop adding fluoride to its water
Bruceton will no longer fluoride the town’s water. The second and final reading on an ordinance to discontinue fluoridation passed during the April 9 meeting of the Bruceton Mayor and Board of Aldermen. No one spoke during a public hearing prior to the vote. “It’s the town’s desire to cease adding fluoride to the water,” […]
Plaistow OKs deal to buy Manchester water; other towns poised to do the same
PLAISTOW — Francine Hart has lived in town for 34 years and says she has never had good well water. “I personally have a nuclear power plant downstairs in my house because I have like 20 different tanks to refine it and clean it. It’s horrible, and we don’t even drink it,” said Hart, chairman […]
Ocala might stop adding fluoride to city water
Council plans a workshop to explore the issue of fluoridation Editor’s note: This story has been updated to adjust the wording in the Florida Dental Association president’s statement and to add additional information from the association. City of Ocala water managers are making plans to possibly stop adding fluoride to the city’s tap water. Staff […]
Facebook Poll Reignites Fluoride Debate in Yorktown
YORKTOWN, N.Y. [Westchester County] – An invitation by Councilman Ed Lachterman to respond to a poll he posted on Yorktown Families’ Facebook page about the proposed fluoridation of the municipality’s water elicited one he probably wasn’t expecting at the Town Board’s regular meeting held last week at the John C. Hart Memorial Library. First up […]
Nonstick Frying Pans Can Cause Penis Size To Shrink, Study Claims
Since its invention 80 years ago, polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) has been the best friend of moms, wives and chefs worldwide. All of us know this tongue-twisting compound by its more famous brand name, Teflon. PTFE is a kind of perfluorinated compound (PFC). Teflon, however, has its drawbacks and one of the most unusual and probably the […]