The battle over Philomath’s ban on fluoride in the drinking water could be headed to voters next year. A group of Philomath community members this week launched a campaign to collect enough valid voter signatures to put the issue of returning fluoride to the water supply on the ballot… The matter became a hot-button issue […]
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Aspen City Council hears pros and cons of fluoridating water
ASPEN — The City Council on Tuesday heard dissenting opinions from both professionals and community members as to whether Aspen should continue to add fluoride into its water supply. Currently, the city of Aspen adds fluoride to the natural amount already in the water supply to achieve a level of 1 to 1.1 milligrams of […]
Portland: Fluoride proponents visit Commissioner Randy Leonard
Community advocates from Upstream Public Health visited Portland City Hall last week to talk about one of Portland’s thorniest topics of debate: fluoride in drinking water. And they had a noteworthy ally with them when they met Sept. 19 with Commissioner Randy Leonard, who is in charge of the Portland Water Bureau. That would be […]
Port Orchard: Fluoride question will be floated to water customers
The City Council on Wednesday agreed to survey water customers’ preferences on fluoride and take action — or not — based on the results. The survey will be sent with water bills before the end of the year… Not all of the city gets fluoride in its water. McCormick Woods, annexed in 2009, is on […]
Guest column: Water bills should have fluoridation warning labels
Louisiana blindly passed a law in 2008 ordering every community of more than 5,000 to add fluoride to drinking water to reduce tooth decay in poor families. The American Dental Association initially supported fluoridation but over the years scientists, doctors and dentists have warned (sodium) “fluoride” is actually a hazardous waste taken from the scrubbers […]
Port Orchard: Water fluoridation issue resurfaces
Port Orchard residents may get to voice their opinion soon about whether or not the city should put fluoride in their water. “Since we’ve determined that this is not required to be a ballot issue, we don’t need to take this to a general election,” Mark Dorsey, the city’s public works director and city engineer, […]
New CDC report on tooth decay in rural Alaskan villages concludes: Less soda, more fluoride
Has Alaska lost it’s war on soda pop? A report released today by the state Health Department and the Centers for Disease Control, says soda drinking and lack of fluoridation of village water are key factors in the widespread tooth decay among children in rural Alaska. Read the report here. It’s based on oral exams […]
College Station council votes to stop adding fluoride to water supply
The College Station water supply will soon have no added fluoride. For a variety of reasons, six of the seven council members voted Thursday night to end the 22 year practice.
Athens: County commission candidate stakes out anti-fluoridation position
An Athens County commissioner candidate visited Athens City Council this week along with several others to oppose fluoride in municipal drinking water. Ibriham Alassaf, an Ohio University student who ran for an at-large council seat on the Democratic ticket in May’s primary, lost that race and recently announced his intention to challenge current Athens County […]
Dental fluorosis: Precedent-setting fluoride personal injury case filed
Dental industry representatives have long fretted in their professional journals that fluoride providers could one day face legal actions for harm caused by ingested fluorides. The fear was that the citizens with a permanent staining and disfigurement of teeth called “dental fluorosis” would bring legal actions upon learning that fluorides they had swallowed had caused […]