Cook County: Free fluoride well-testing

Who: Oral Health Task Force When: Wed, 05/31/2017 – 6:00pm The Oral Health Task Force is offering free fluoride well-testing for families, day-cares, and other homes where children either live or visit on a consistent basis. This offer includes pre-natal moms and young adults up to 26 years old. More information is available from Georgene […]

Fluoridated Water Destroys Your Brain and Teeth

Story at-a-glance – In the U.S., 57 percent of youth between the ages of 6 and 19 years have dental fluorosis When fluoridation was first started in the U.S. in 1945, it was promised that only 10 percent of people would suffer from mild dental fluorosis Public health officials often brush off fluorosis as purely […]

Albuquerque: Fluoridation battle to be waged again

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Let the fluoride wars begin, again. The public will have two opportunities to voice its opinions about drinking-water fluoridation when the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority takes up the issue in June and August. The utility board will hear a presentation about fluoridation at its June 21 meeting. On Aug. 23, […]

Fluoride issue won’t go to Dover voters

DOVER — The member of the Utilities Commission who sought to have the City Council add a question to November’s ballot on whether the city should continue adding fluoride to the public drinking water said on Thursday the City Council does not have that authority. In an email, Norman Allie wrote, “Upon further review, the […]

Sheridan: City Hosts Public Meeting on Fluoride

The community conference room at the Sheridan Memorial Hospital downtown location on Gould Street was the site of a public meeting hosted by the City of Sheridan Thursday night on the topic of fluoridation of the City’s water supply. Speaking on behalf of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Dental Association, […]

Sheridan: Fluoride issue returns to table

SHERIDAN — Sheridan Mayor Roger Miller, Sheridan City Council members and other city employees heard another round of discussion for and against having fluoride in the water system that serves city and Sheridan Area Water Supply System customers Thursday night. “It’s been educational for me for sure and I think that the council has also […]

Fluoride opponents pinning hopes on federal lawsuit

Opponents of Arkansas water fluoridation failed to remove the state mandate and must now wait another two years until the legislature is in session. But a lawsuit was recently filed in federal court in California by the Fluoride Action Network (FAN) and other groups to get fluoride out of drinking water all across the country. […]