The Melbourne City Council will hold a special meeting Thursday, Jan. 24, on whether or not to keep adding fluoride to city utility customers’ drinking water. The meeting will allow the council to receive information from all sides on the topic of drinking water fluoridation and allow the public to provide input. City Manager Shannon […]
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Fluoride debate may decide whether Melbourne keeps adding the compound to drinking water
A group of anti-fluoride activists wants the city of Melbourne to remove fluoride from its drinking water supply, which serves roughly 170,000 residents across southern Brevard County. Thursday, the Melbourne City Council will listen to dueling 20-minute presentations opposing and supporting fluoridation of water during a 6 p.m. special meeting. Opponents say fluoride can contain toxic contaminants […]
Public Hearing Presentation on Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride
The following are excerpts from a powerpoint presentation at a Public Hearing on the Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for Disposition of Depleted Uranium Oxide Conversion Product Generated from DOE’s Inventory of Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride (DOE/EIS-0359-S1; DOE/EIS-0360-S1). The maps and other details in the ppt were not accessible for coping. Background •DOE operates depleted uranium […]
2 fluoride toothpaste inventors from IU win posthumous fame
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Two Indiana University researchers whose cavity-fighting formula launched Crest toothpaste in the 1950s will be inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Joseph Muhler and William Nebergall will be inducted on May 2 in Washington, along with 17 other inventors and innovators. The Herald-Times reports that Muhler was a dentistry […]
Fluoride could be in Meadville’s water by this summer
VERNON TOWNSHIP — By summer, residents could be drinking — or filtering with reverse osmosis systems — fluoridated water, according to officials at Meadville Area Water Authority. Equipment used to monitor fluoride levels in the water supplied to customers has been mounted and plumbed, Project Manager Bob Harrington told the authority’s board at Wednesday’s monthly […]
Juneau fluoridation study: more hype than evidence
Juneau, Alaska, stopped adding fluoride to drinking water in 2007. In December 2018, a study by Meyer blamed this fact for increased dental decay in the city, reports the Fluoride Action Network (FAN). Paul Connett, PhD, FAN executive director, described the Meyer study as “a very poorly controlled and unblinded study that can neither rule out or […]
Juneau has no plans to add fluoride to water following study
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) – Juneau officials say there are no plans to resume fluoridating the drinking water in Alaska’s capital after the city stopped the practice more than a decade ago. The Juneau Empire reports fluoridation has received renewed scrutiny after a recent study examined dental health in Juneau, finding dental costs increased for families […]
Colgate Total Toothpaste to Relaunch Without Controversial Chemical
With a launch party on Jan. 31 and a coming Super Bowl commercial, Colgate-Palmolive Co. is making a big splash for its new version of Colgate Total toothpaste. As part of the reformulation, the company is cutting a controversial ingredient that it’s stood by for years. Colgate-Palmolive has already removed the substance — triclosan — […]
Portsmouth & Paducah Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride
Portsmouth & Paducah Facility Impacts On June 18, 2004, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) issued environmental impact statements for the construction and operation of facilities to convert depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) to depleted uranium (DU) oxide at DOE’s Paducah Site in Kentucky and Portsmouth Site in Ohio. Both the Final Environmental Impact Statement for Construction and […]
Tooth loss among older adults according to poverty status in the United States from 1999 through 2004 and 2009 through 2014.
Abstract Methods: The authors used data from the 1999 through 2004 and the 2009 through 2014 National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys to assess changes in tooth loss in adults 50 years or older. The authors evaluated changes in edentulism, retaining all teeth, and having a functional dentition (21 or more natural teeth) according to […]