The village of Dexter apparently won’t be adding fluoride to its municipal water supply. A memo recommending against it from Village Manager Donna Dettling was accepted without comment Monday night by the village council. The memo accompanied a report from consulting firm Orchard, Hiltz and McCliment, which had been hired to investigate the costs of […]
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There’s something in the water
A bill mandating fluoride in Louisiana water systems passed fairly easily in 2008. But that doesn’t mean no one was against the idea. “This one snuck up on us,” says Marylee Orr, executive director of the Louisiana Environmental Action Network, even though LEAN has three people who watch the Legislature. “It may be time to […]
El Dorado might fluoridate drinking water
The city of El Dorado, AR is trying to decide whether to fluoridate its drinking water. The city council approved the move in 2005 but the city has yet to carry it out. City council members say that after the ordinance was approved, the costs to fluoridate the water system came in higher than expected […]
ACE: Fluoride in public water is unnecessary and not safe
It’s perplexing and even shameful that the American Dental Association is refusing to look at the overwhelming evidence showing fluoridation of public water is ineffective, unnecessary, and not safe. ACE commends the Pottstown Water Authority members who looked at reality, rejected dental association spin, and opposed fluoridation of Pottstown’s water. In 2007, ACE did extensive […]
Timberville: Fluoride Vote ‘In Limbo’
Town Council had wanted residents to decide whether Timberville would continue fluoridating its water, but a legal roadblock has the measure in limbo. Following a couple of months of impassioned debate, council voted 4-2 in October to put the issue before residents this year as a referendum. However, at the November meeting, Town Attorney Mark […]
Fluoride boosts dental health
Fluoridation in our water system was recently challenged at a City Council meeting. The Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Branch, provides a large variety of public health services and is acutely aware of the needs facing our community as it relates to oral health in both children and adults. Without reservation, we […]
Big Canoe Utilities drops water fluoridation
The new water treatment plant for Big Canoe will not be equipped with a water fluoridation dispensing mechanism, according to Arnold Ellison, vice president of the Big Canoe Water Company. The company stopped adding fluoride to Big Canoe’s water in 2007, Ellison said, in part because of a simmering debate about the safety of fluoridating […]
Burlington: Board urges city to stop fluoridation
Burlington’s Board of Health recommended Monday by a 3-2 vote that Burlington cease fluoridating its water supply. The recommendation moves to the City Council, which has the authority to regulate chemicals in the water supply “so long as we remain compliant with applicable state and federal laws, rules and regulations,” City Attorney Ken Schatz said. […]
Editorial: Reduce, don’t eliminate, fluoride in Schenectady water
The Great Fluoride Debate, one of those issues that never seem to die, is back before Schenectady’s City Council. Too bad, because little has changed in the argument against putting the chemical in the public water supply — except the price of fluoride. And even though it has gone up $20,000 since last year, which […]
Fluoride prescriptions for kids can get delayed
Why have I had trouble lately filling my child’s vitamin prescription at my pharmacy? From time to time, the stock of prescription children’s vitamins with fluoride backs up for weeks or even months, says Dr. Michale Grosso, a pediatrician and senior vice president of medical affairs at Huntington Hospital. “These kind of issues come up […]