Excerpt: In the Memorial Elementary School gymnasium, 43 Lincoln St. A quorum of 100 registered voters is needed. All articles will be introduced to the floor in order unless a motion is passed to move an article… Article 19, another citizen’s petition, asks voters this non-binding question: “Do you want industrial sodium fluoride added to the […]
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Fluoride may soon be added to Hiawassee water supply
HIAWASSEE, Ga. – Fluoride may soon be added to the local water supply. Hiawassee Mayor Liz Ordiales announced the news during the March city council work session. The City of Hiawassee received notice from the Georgia Environmental Protection Division (EPD) that fluoride has not been an additive in the water supply in over 20 years. […]
Residents wary of Superior, Wis., oil refinery rebuild
Clint Austin – Duluth News Tribune A demolition crew started removing the charred metal and broken equipment at the Husky Energy oil refinery in Superior, Wis., a key first step to reopening the facility after an explosion and fire there nearly one year ago. But what many local residents want to know is whether work […]
Anti-Fluoridation Efforts Threaten Oral Health Protections for Children in Washington State
Guest Author / Kristopher A. Kerns, MPH-D will complete his Graduate Certificate in Maternal and Child Health in 2019 and his Doctoral Degree in Oral Health Sciences in 2021 at the University of Washington School of Public Health and School of Dentistry. He is currently investigating dysbiotic shifts in the oral microbiome in relation to […]
Toothpaste Tablets: A New Way to Brush Your Teeth
Toothpaste tablets give consumers an alternative to buying toothpaste in tubes, more than a billion of which end up in landfills every year. Flickr (CC by 2.0) Toothpaste has been around since the ancient Egyptians. The tube was introduced as packaging in 1892. Since then, except for ingredients, not much has changed. Until now. […]
San Antonio: 4200 gallons of fluoride spill from tanks at SAWS chlorine site
SAN ANTONIO — About 4200 gallons of hydrofluoric cylic acid spilled out of a tank during a transfer Friday morning. Authorities said in the process of a transfer of 4500 gallons of fluoride on the 13600 block of O’Connor Road at the San Antonio Water System Chlorine Site Friday around 8:20 a.m., 4200 gallons spilled […]
‘It’s a little disheartening’: Officials frustrated by efforts to halt fluoride treatment in Iowa town
Every few years, a small-but-mighty group of Iowans lobbies their city to stop adding fluoride to the public water. Most recently, the city council for the northwest Iowa town of Ida Grove voted 3-2 to end the town’s water fluoridation program, shortly after the majority of respondents to a survey — distributed through utility bills — voted to end the […]
San Antonio: Fluoride spill at SAWS facility cleaned up
San Antonio Water System workers transferring fluoride at the utility’s North East Operations Center on Friday spilled about 4,100 gallons of the chemical, officials said. The spill was caused by malfunctioning valves, SAWS spokeswoman Anne Hayden said. As a result, some of the fluoride was lost into the secondary containment area,” she said. “We have […]
Fluoride in public water up for debate at Manchester Town Meeting
Excerpt: Town Meeting will be held Monday (April 1) at the Manchester Memorial Elementary School, 43 Lincoln St., from 7 to 9 p.m. MANCHESTER — At Town Meeting on Monday, registered voters will weigh in on whether they want industrial sodium fluoride added to the public water supply. The community group Manchester Residents for Removing Sodium Fluoride from Public Water Supply […]
Fluoridation foe taking battle to Arkansas Supreme Court
The Ozark Mountain Regional Public Water Authority, the sole holdout in the state still refusing to fluoridate its drinking water, plans to appeal a March 7 Circuit Court ruling that OMRPWA cannot refuse to fluoridate based on being a wholesale water supplier with 18 towns, none of which has 5,000 customers. The Arkansas Department of […]