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 […]
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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 […]
Rule change would lower fluoride level
Omaha, Lincoln, Ogallala and Council Bluffs do. North Platte, Lexington and Hastings do not. Alliance and Imperial in Nebraska and dozens of Iowa towns don’t have to. Fluoridate, that is. The debate over whether to add fluoride to drinking water to help prevent cavities in teeth has raged for 60 years. Now, new rules could […]
WSJ: Government Advises Less Fluoride in Water
The federal government lowered its recommended limit on the amount of fluoride in drinking water for the first time in nearly 50 years, saying that spots on some children’s teeth show they are getting too much of the mineral. Fluoride has been added to U.S. water supplies since 1945 to prevent tooth decay. Since 1962, […]
Boston Globe: US plans to lower recommended fluoride levels
ATLANTA — Fluoride in drinking water — credited with dramatically cutting cavities and tooth decay — may now be too much of a good thing. Getting too much of it causes spots on some children’s teeth. A reported increase in the spotting problem is one reason the federal government announced yesterday that it plans to […]
Grand Rapids. Study proposes reducing fluoride in city water supply, one of Grand Rapids’ claims to fame
Fluoride in drinking water — credited with dramatically cutting cavities and tooth decay — may now be too much of a good thing. Getting too much of it causes spots on some kids’ teeth. That led the federal government Friday to lower its recommended level of fluoride in the municipal water systems. The U.S. Department […]
AP EXCLUSIVE: US says too much fluoride in water
Fluoride in drinking water — credited with dramatically cutting cavities and tooth decay — may now be too much of a good thing. Getting too much of it causes spots on some kids’ teeth. A reported increase in the spotting problem is one reason the federal government will announce Friday it plans to lower the […]