The acting commissioner of Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services urged the state’s water districts Monday to immediately reduce the amount of fluoride in drinking water, following federal guidelines announced last week. Maine calls for 1 to 2 parts per million of fluoride — which has been shown to prevent tooth decay — to […]
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ADA objects to downgrading of CDC’s Oral Health Division
American Dental Association 1111 14th Street N.W. Washington DC 2005 January 11, 2011 Honorable Kathleen Sebelius Office of the Secretary U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Hubert H. Humphrey Building 200 Independence Avenue, SW Washington, DC 20201 Dear Secretary Sebelius: The American Dental Association (ADA) is very disturbed to learn that the Division of […]
EPA to Bar Fluoride-Based Pesticide
Washington, D.C. – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today proposed to grant three environmental groups’ petition to end the use of sulfuryl fluoride, an insecticide and food fumigant manufactured by Dow AgroSciences. The Dow product, approved by EPA as an alternative to methyl bromide, is used on hundreds of food commodities. Citing concerns about children’s […]
HHS Recommends Lower Fluoride Levels in Drinking Water
Two federal agencies have announced that they are taking new measures to reduce levels of fluoride in drinking water because Americans increasingly encounter the mineral from other sources, such as fluoridated toothpaste. The overriding goal of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is to reverse a […]
Port Angeles, Forks would lower levels of fluoride if new federal rules are adopted
Officials with the cities of Port Angeles and Forks expect they would have to lower the amount of fluoride introduced into municipal drinking water if new proposed guidelines are adopted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The proposal calls for setting the recommended dosage of 0.7 parts per million rather than the […]
Lobbying firm pushes for fluoridation mandate
Excerpts: … Former state representative, Bruce Hawkins of Morrilton… said his firm, whose clients include Delta Dental, is helping state Sen. David Johnson, D-Little Rock, push three bills aimed at improving children’s oral heath… Johnson said one bill would require any water system that serves 5,000 or more people to have fluoride in the water […]
Editorial: Who Knew? Fear of fluoride proves not so wrong after all
Well, now, maybe the Texarkanas are not the bastions of bumpkinism people thought when we sank our teeth into the fluoride debate. Time, tests and tainted teeth tell the tale of the wisdom of voter sooth-daying, or tooth-saying. From time to time, people have mounted campaigns to add fluoridation to the cities’ water supply. A […]
Vermont responds to lower fluoridation recommendation
Federal agencies announced Friday they are planning to lower the recommended concentration of fluoride in drinking water, prompting at least one major Vermont water supplier to follow suit and re-igniting questions about the use of fluoride in the state’s largest city. Officials with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Environmental […]
NYC: Pol wants fluoride flushed after fed study rips city’s water
New York may be putting too much fluoride in its drinking water, a new federal review has found – and one councilman hopes that will prompt the city to stop using it altogether. New York puts 1 milligram of fluoride into every liter of water to prevent tooth decay, but the U.S. Department of Health […]
Government recommends lowering fluoride levels in water
HOLLADAY — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced plans Friday to lower the recommended level of fluoride in drinking water for the first time in nearly 50 years, based on a fresh review of the science. After decades of convincing local health authorities to fluoridate water, federal health officials now say many […]