As part of its 2019-2022 strategic priorities, Kingston City Council is exploring the feasibility of adding fluoride to the municipal water supply, and looking for public input. According to Kingston Frontenac Lennox and Addington (KFL&A) Public Health, 73.7 per cent of local households surveyed in 2009 and 2010 incorrectly thought that fluoride was added to […]
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Welcome to the Fluoride Action Network News Archive. The FAN News Archive serves as an historical repository for fluoride news stories, positive or negative. Since FAN catalogs all news stories on fluoride, our news section remains a reliable database of all published fluoride news.
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Ontario dental program to help about 20,000 seniors in Algoma region
SAULT STE. MARIE – A province-wide dental program for low-income seniors is expected to help about 20,000 in the Algoma region. “We’ve been receiving telephone calls from seniors for a number of years now requesting some type of service for dental and for their oral health, and so we’re really happy to see that finally […]
Reader letter: Prenatal fluoride exposure is not safe
Re: Fluoride in drinking water a year away from flowing, by Dave Battagello, April 11 On April 11th, the article “Fluoride to return to Windsor-area tap water after Tecumseh Vote” included bold claims regarding the safety of community water fluoridation, from Tecumseh Mayor Gary McNamara and Dr. Wajid Ahmed of the Windsor-Essex County Health Unit. […]
Reader letter: Fluoridating Windsor water is the wrong decision
It is a mistake for Windsor to adopt water fluoridation. City council has decided to fluoridate despite data and science that does not support water fluoridation. The following facts are easily available to anyone with even a modest interest in the topic: 1. The World Health Organization (WHO) has concluded that 97 per cent of Western […]
High fluoride in Ridgetown water
The level of naturally occurring fluoride in the municipal water supply in Ridgetown is above the Maximum Allowable Concentration (MAC) of 1.5 parts per million. Small children, whose permanent teeth are not yet formed and who are drinking water with fluoride levels above 1.5 parts per million, may develop dental fluorosis. Dental fluorosis causes the […]
Natural fluoride levels in Ridgetown water supply exceed acceptable levels
Ridgetown residents who rely on well water should have their supply analyzed to check fluoride levels. (Tina MacKenzie/CBC) Flouride levels exceeded 1.5 parts per million Ridgetown residents have been warned about the level of naturally occurring fluoride in the community’s water supply. According to Chatham-Kent officials, Ridgetown’s water supply was found to contain levels of […]
Jarvis: No time to wait for safe injection site
“The report is deeply concerning to us,” Windsor and Essex County’s top public health official, Dr. Wajid Ahmed, said last year. “This should be alarming to our community,” the medical officer of health said again, six months later. “We need to accept as a community that we have a problem…,” he said before addressing city […]
CBC Radio responds to complaint: Fuss over Fluoride
The complainant, Jack Locke, thought that a story on the World at Six took sides in a running controversy over adding fluoride to drinking water. As a long-time opponent of fluoridation, he found that hard to swallow. COMPLAINT You found fault with a radio story which ran on the January 23rd edition of The World […]
Reader letter: Some people are more affected by fluoride
Re: The fluoride debate: ‘I know what I saw,’ by Anne Jarvis, March 1. As an environmentalist, organic farmer and believer of informed consent, I have several reasons for opposing fluoridation chemicals in drinking water but after reading Anne Jarvis’ opinion piece about dental anecdotes I thought it important that the public know the reality […]
Adding fluoride to Windsor water supply may take 18 months
It may take up to 18 months before residents in Windsor, Tecumseh and LaSalle have fluoride in their drinking water. On Tuesday, Tecumseh council approved re-fluoridation. Windsor’s council unanimously approved its bylaw in March but needed either Tecumseh or LaSalle to approve the initiative since the neighbouring communities share the city’s drinking water supply. The […]