MWRA’s Fluoride Source: USA You may have seen recent media reports about fluoride from China being used in some local drinking water systems. The fluoride MWRA adds comes from North Carolina. Fluoride is added to drinking water to promote dental health. The type of fluoride added to MWRA’s water is hydrofluosilicic acid and is a […]
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Welcome to the Fluoride Action Network News Archive. The FAN News Archive serves as an historical repository for fluoride news stories, positive or negative. Since FAN catalogs all news stories on fluoride, our news section remains a reliable database of all published fluoride news.
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Chinese fluoride In Mass. water raises concern
Excerpt: … Team 5 Investigates found the Amesbury Water Department pulled fluoride from its system amid concerns about its supply from China. Department of Public Works Director Rob Desmarais said after he mixes the white powder with water, 40 percent of it will not dissolve… The New York company that supplies the fluoride said it […]
Hummert: We shouldn’t need 40 years to learn lesson
Kathleen Hughes was a Maryknoll nun and dietician working in Hong Kong. It was in 1970 that Kathleen told me of Dr. Ignatz Semmelweis (1818-65), a Hungarian doctor serving in Vienna. Semmelweis discovered mothers who were attended to in childbirth by doctors were dying more frequently than those who gave birth with a midwife present. […]
Town of Circle removes high levels of fluoride by reverse osmosis
EPA’S ever-tightening rules push small towns out of compliance Clean water goes down easy; it’s the bill that’s hard to swallow. Few in Circle would have disputed that the town’s water was bad. The salt content was so high it killed grass; the fluoride so concentrated it discolored teeth. But when the Safe Drinking Water […]
Fluoride: Friend or Foe?
Excerpt: … The American Dental Association and the Centers for Disease Control have endorsed water fluoridation since 1950 and while they admit that fluoride can be toxic in excessive quantities, the ADA maintains that at optimal levels, water fluoridation is a safe and effective way to prevent dental decay. But, when we tried to ask […]
Editorial: Give public notice. Let people know if fluoridation is to stop
The state House should follow the Senate’s lead and approve a bill that would require Tennessee public utilities to provide notification if they intend to stop fluoridating their water systems. Fluoride is commonly added to water to reduce the risk of tooth decay, particularly in children. In 2007, The Leaf-Chronicle reported on the fact that […]
Watsonville. David L. Biles: When it comes to fluoride, education is better than medication
One might ask the question: what does it take to motivate a local dentist to publicly challenge the ongoing effort to fluoridate the Watsonville community? Easy answer: the truth, an element still missing from the public forum. “The truth is incontrovertible,” Winston Churchill once claimed, “malice may attack it, ignorance deride it, but in the […]
Fairbanks: Fluoride Task Force has first meeting
Bryce Taylor knows that whatever he says about fluoride, it’s going to draw some heat. “Invariably, there’s going to be that,” the Fairbanks dentist said. “I’m sure both sides (of the issue) will send us a barrage of information.” Taylor is one of six members of the Fluoride Task Force, which hosted its first meeting […]
Senate approves bill requiring notice if fluoridation stops
NASHVILLE — Tennessee public utilities would have to provide notice if they stop fluoridation of their water systems under a proposal that was unanimously approved by the Senate. The measure sponsored by Democratic Sen. Tim Barnes of Clarksville was approved 32-0 on Thursday. Utilities would have to notify the state within 10 days of the […]
Cobleskill: Fluoride to be on agenda at March 16 meeting
EXCERPT: “The issue of whether to fluoridate the village of Cobleskill’s drinking water has come up again. …” – NOTES – • The full article is available by subscription only. The meeting is set for March 16 and the agenda may be available by March 11. • See August 11, 2007, article: Cobleskill village in […]