In a unanimous vote, the Columbia City Council denied a plan to stop fluoridating the city’s water. The issue, which took almost two hours of the council’s three-hour meeting Monday, received comment from more than 30 community members. More than half of those who commented were doctors or medical professionals, who all supported continued fluoridation. […]
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Packaging plant penalized for alleged EPA violations
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that Pretium Packaging LLC will pay a $75,860 penalty to settle alleged violations of federal risk management requirements at a plastic bottle manufacturing plant in York County and a now-closed facility in Muscatine, Iowa. Pretium also has a plant in the Humboldt Industrial Park. EPA said in a press […]
ADA Approves Topical Prescription Fluoride for Home
People at high risk for caries can safely protect their teeth by applying their own gels, pastes, and rinses with prescription-level concentrations of fluoride, the American Dental Association (ADA) said today in its first-ever guidelines on these products. The recommendation was included in guidelines on prescription topical fluoride products that the ADA updated for the […]
Burning truck hauling nuclear load flies under radar
Nuclear regulators were never notified of a fire on board a truck hauling a radioactive cargo from Canada to the U.S. Late on the night of Aug. 22, Brian and Alexis Hanson found themselves on the busy I-75 highway near Troy, Ohio in a flaming truck with a radioactive cargo. The story has a safe […]
A state matter: Elgin not pursuing removing fluoride from drinking water
ELGIN — The city will not pursue any moves to take fluoride out of its drinking matter under current state rules… [Water Director Kyla Jacobsen] stated that 13 states including Illinois have fluoride regulations set at the state level, while the remaining 37 allow fluoride in the drinking water to be decided at the local […]
Fairfield fluoridated water may be in Suisun’s future
SUISUN CITY — City resident may soon drink fluoridated water from Fairfield, if a plan before the Suisun-Solano Water Authority board on Tuesday finds support. A report from an ad hoc committee suggests that Fairfield provide Suisun City with treated water as the preferred alternative to develop new water treatment capacity to meet Suisun City’s future growth […]
St. Peters: Local city looks to stop practice of adding fluoride to water
The odds are the water coming from the tap in the area has fluoride added to it. Adding fluoride to water supplies has become a huge controversy and St. Peters is looking at stopping the practice. “When you put fluoride in all of our water you’re taking away my liberty to choose…and that is un-American,” […]
Port Orange: Another Volusia city debates fluoridated water
… the Port Orange City Council is asking whether it should be forcing an optional chemical like fluoride on its constituents. … Last month, the council considered purchasing chemicals including hydrofluorosilicic acid, otherwise known as fluoride, to be added to the water supply. One citizen spoke out against it, leading the council to vote 4-1 […]
Intel’s fluoride flub might trigger brief, painful delay at D1X
Intel’s failure to disclose fluoride emissions at its Washington County factories has embarrassed the company and, in its own estimation, cost it neighbors’ trust. It’s also brought the threat of a lawsuit by environmental watchdogs and closer scrutiny from state regulators. Observers and the company’s critics agree the fluoride flub won’t ultimately derail Intel’s two […]
Water fluoridation issue resurfaces, this time in St. Peters
… A city advisory committee on health and wellness is considering recommending that St. Peters stop adding fluoride to water produced by the city’s wells. If it does, the issue would then go before the Board of Aldermen. Barry Pulley, a committee member affiliated with a national anti-fluoride group, worries that long-term exposure to fluoride […]