When it comes to fluoride in drinking water, Homer village trustees say keep it out. Right now, the village adds one part fluoride per million gallons of water to the drinking supply. Tuesday night, the board voted 3 to 2 to stop doing that. “It seems like in every report that we have, it seems […]
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Fluoride backers file ad complaint
An advertising insert calling fluoride “toxic waste” violates several state election laws, a complaint from a political action committee trying to add fluoride to Bellingham’s drinking water claims. Bellingham Families Fluoride filed a complaint with the state’s Public Disclosure Commission saying the advertisement is from an unregistered political action committee calling itself Clean Water Health […]
Time and the Anti-Fluoride Cause
In the words of Carl Sagan: “We’ve arranged a global civilization in which most critical elements depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster.” The combination of a scientifically unsophisticated public and the profusion of easily accessible crackpot […]
Fluoride shortage leaves towns scrambling
A nationwide shortage of fluoride has prompted eight communities northwest of Boston to scramble for the compound used to prevent cavities, and some water providers are likely to run out of the product soon. In mid-August, a Florida manufacturer notified its distributor that it would no longer produce hydrofluosilicic acid, one of the products used […]
Watsonville loses fluoride appeal in precedent-setting case
Fluoride could flow from city taps within a year. The city’s nearly 3-year-old fight to keep the chemical out of its water supply may have come to an end Wednesday when an appeals court ruled a state fluoridation law trumps local voters. The ruling by the Sixth District Court of Appeals sets a precedent for […]
City loses appeal over fluoridation
Sixth appellate district justices decided Wednesday to uphold a Santa Cruz Superior Court ruling that may force water fluoridation in Watsonville. Presiding Justice Conrad Rushing and associate justices Eugene Premo and Franklin Elia determined that voter-approved Measure S, a 2002 ban against adding substances not approved by the Food and Drug Administration to Watsonville water, […]
Community at odds over fluoridation
Both sides of Bellingham’s fluoridation debate agree Proposition 1 on the Nov. 8 ballot will have a dramatic impact on the community’s health. But they disagree vastly on what that impact could be. Bellingham Families for Fluoride – with the financial backing of the Washington State Dental Association, the Washington Dental Service Foundation and dozens […]
WMass activists fight fluoride
BOSTON – Activists from Western Massachusetts yesterday converged on Beacon Hill to fight an effort to strip voters of the right to decide if fluoride should be added to municipal drinking water. The Legislature’s Committee on Public Health yesterday aired bills that would empower the state Department of Public Health to regulate fluoride in most […]
City Council seeks delay in fluoride
NEW BEDFORD — The City Council is asking the Committee on Ordinances to prevent the fluoridation of the city’s water until the issue can be brought before voters. The action followed a veto by Mayor Frederick M. Kalisz Jr. of a motion by Councilor-at-large Brian K. Gomes to put a non-binding question on Nov. 8 […]
Sweet News You Can Bite Into: Cavistat more effective than fluoride
October 28, 2005 — Candy may soon be good for your teeth. Long Island scientists have developed an enzyme that can be added to snacks and turn into a more powerful cavity fighter than fluoride. “[It attacks] all stages of the tooth-decay process at the same time,” said Dr. Israel Kleinberg of the Stony Brook […]