DOVER — The federal Department of Health and Human Services has recommended lower fluoride levels in drinking water supplies, but a number of area community officials said they will wait until the new levels are legally set before adhering to the new guidelines. The federal DHHS recently announced it will recommend the Environmental Protection Agency […]
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Leading fluoride opponent Paul Connett says fluoridation makes no sense — at any level
Last week the federal government announced a plan to reduce the safe upper limit for fluoride in drinking water, to help protect children from the disfiguring marks or mottling of teeth that occurs with overexposure to the mineral. Fluoride has been added to public drinking supplies in the U.S. for decades, at the behest of […]
San Diego: Residents argue against fluoridated water plan
Dozens of people showed up at Tuesday morning’s San Diego City Council meeting to voice their concerns about fluoridated water. The city was supposed to start adding the compound to its treatment plants last month, but delayed the move to make sure the staff and systems were ready. Last week, federal health officials announced they […]
Fluoridegate: Fluoride spots on teeth the tip of the iceberg
NOTE: This press release was released by Dan Stockin of The Lillie Center, Inc. Decades of assurances that consuming fluoride in drinking water is a safe and an effective way to prevent cavities are being called into question as a jarring Fluoridegate controversy erupts across the nation. A series of disclosures are surfacing about the […]
Group seeks even lower levels of fluoride in Utah water
County officials in Davis and Salt Lake counties are asking their health departments to again review how much fluoride is added to area drinking water after a request Tuesday by Waterwatch of Layton. Last week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services proposed changing the recommended fluoride level to 0.7 milligrams per liter of […]
Maine urges water districts to cut fluoride now
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 […]
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 […]