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, […]
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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 […]
Dateland to reduce fluoride and arsenic levels in drinking water
Three federal grants totaling more than $2.4 million will pay for a new Dateland Public Service Co. system to treat concentrations of arsenic and fluoride in its customers’ drinking water. Alan Stephens, state director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development, attended a groundbreaking ceremony Monday and presented the colonia grants. “Colonia grants allow […]
Hohenwald council votes to pull fluoride from water
The Hohenwald City Commission voted to remove fluoride from their water system, becoming the second city in the past month to make this decision. Hohenwald followed the lead of Spring Hill, which voted last August to remove the chemical compound from the water supply. The Hohenwald City Commission passed the vote unanimously on Sept. 6. […]
Dunedin City Commission hears opinions on use of fluoride in water
Applause, passionate outbursts and several rounds of booing marked a workshop Thursday in which the public and the City Commission discussed whether to eliminate fluoride from the city’s water supply. The issue came to light recently when Dunedin officials asked city departments to find ways to cut costs in fiscal year 2012. Dunedin’s annual fluoridation […]
Stuart: Flap over fluoride deal puts Stuart Commission at odds with voters
This article reported on the Sept. 12 meeting of the Stuart city commissioners. They had a tied vote for an agenda item to approve 7 contracts related to the purchase of chemicals used in the city’s drinking water system. The sticking point was the contract for chemicals used in fluoridation. The article notes, “Based on […]
Fluoride Can Cause Cancer, Studies Show
Many published human and animal studies have reported an association between fluoride and various cancers, including valid and unrefuted scientific evidence that fluoride can increase the risk of osteosarcoma (a type of bone cancer) in boys and young men, reports the Fluoride Action Network (FAN) in its recent submission to the California Environmental Protection Agency’s […]