The City of Milton will once again be adding Fluoride to their municipal water sources due to a $20,000 grant from the Florida Department of Health. Milton had been adding fluoridation to the water since 1989, but stopped in late 2006 when the City Council voted to discontinue it due to an older, unreliable injection […]
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Alafia River has high fluoride levels due to phosphate plants
Tampa Bay Water officials say they want to protect water quality in the Alafia River by changing the river’s classification so it must meet drinking water standards. That argument, however, rang hollow Thursday for some Hillsborough County commissioners. They see the reclassification as a way for Tampa Bay Water to transfer future river cleanup costs […]
Today’s letters: Director of Hillsborough County Water Resources addresses fluoridation
As a public utility which provides high-quality drinking water to more than 350, 000 people, Hillsborough County Water Resource Services receives numerous advisories, statements, position papers, opinions and articles from a wide variety of sources. Our staff carefully evaluates each new development in the industry. Medical issues in particular can be extremely complex and confusing, […]
Voters in Stuart to have final say on fluoride
STUART — The Stuart City Commission voted 4-1 Monday to give residents the last word on whether the city should add fluoride to its water supply. The commission had already decided in January to ask voters their preference in a Nov. 6 ballot question, but hadn’t decided whether voters or commissioners would have the final […]
Stuart, Martin County, to put water fluoridation question on November ballot
STUART — Residents will decide in November whether they want fluoride added to their drinking water. But first, the Stuart City Commission must decide Monday how the question will be put to voters on the ballot. The City Commission has two options, which were released Thursday morning. The first is a straw ballot, which would […]
Fluoride, a longtime blessing, now a curse?
Few noticed in November when the American Dental Association alerted its members via e-mail of a possible problem with giving babies fluoridated water: The ADA, long among fluoride‘s biggest advocates, wrote that parents of infants younger than a year old “should consider using water that has no or low levels of fluoride” when mixing baby […]
New scientific developments subvert pro-fluoride position
In recent months the News has written three or four editorials supporting the use of fluoride in public drinking water. I’d like to make residents aware of recent developments in the scientific community that contradict this view. Dramatic developments have changed the scientific understanding of fluoridation‘s health risks. Most significant is the March 2006 report, […]
Soldier in fluoride fight marches on
ORMOND BEACH — Clutching a fat stack of papers — most of them Web site printouts — Jim Schultz strode to the microphone in front of the Daytona Beach City Commission one evening last month, the highlight of his two-year campaign against fluoride. What the medical establishment considers one of its greatest public health achievements, […]
GRU hit by nationwide shortage of fluoride
Gainesville Regional Utilities has had to stop adding fluoride to its water supply because of a chemical shortage affecting utilities throughout the state, GRU officials said Tuesday. Though the utility’s supply of fluoridating chemicals ran out late last month, officials said a few weeks without the chemicals should not reduce the effects of fluoridation, which […]
Fluoride flows again, for a price
Melbourne’s water system would have run out of fluoride today, but an emergency purchase — at eight times the usual price — kept the tooth-toughening chemical compound flowing out of taps. Cocoa had just 10 days of fluoride left, but a new shipment arrived Tuesday that will last for two months. Brevard County’s two largest […]