SPRINGFIELD – The debate about water fluoridation before the city’s Public Health Council this week was a case of dueling doctors and clashing citizens. Each side was armed with its own interpretation of the science underlying whether the treatment of water with fluoride – a form of the element, fluorine, which occurs naturally in the […]
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Appeal filed on fluoride additive
ESCONDIDO – A La Jolla attorney yesterday appealed a judge’s ruling against an effort to stop the city from adding fluoride to its water supply. The case revolves around the question of whether the city has the right to use a fluoride additive – called hydrofluorosilic acid – that contains minute amounts of arsenic and […]
Not so fast on fluoride, say officials in Lakewood
The Lakewood Water District is looking at alternatives to putting fluoride into its water supply, just four months after residents voted in favor of adding the cavity-fighting compound. The district recently got an unexpected cash incentive to fluoridate the drinking water of its roughly 70,000 customers. The Washington Dental Service Foundation is offering $364,560, which […]
Bonney Lake council approves alternative to fluoridation
Three years after the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department’s (TPCHD) 2002 mandate that “would require all water purveyors in the County serving 5,000 or more people to add fluoride to their water supplies” the Bonney Lake City Council is one step closer to reaching a compromise that meets the health department’s goal of widespread dental health […]
Health group backs fluoride
SPRINGFIELD – The city Public Health Council voted 9-1 last night to recommend that the mayor and City Council approve fluoridation of the water supply, but that doesn’t mean the treatment is imminent. State law prohibits fluoridation if a municipal water source also supplies other communities that haven’t approved fluoridation and if the water directed […]
NA vote bans fluoride
NORTH ATTLEBORO — In an apparent stealth move, the board of health voted Tuesday to halt fluoridation of the town’s water supply. The board also acted in disregard of an opinion two years ago from Town Counsel Robert Bliss that it does not have the statutory authority to supersede a November 2000 ballot question in […]
Cities, not Legislature, should decide local policy
The Arkansas Legislature exists to serve the people of Arkansas who elected them to represent their interests in Little Rock, not to pursue their own special agendas at the expense of depriving individual municipalities of the right to make decisions on the local level The same can be said about a statewide water fluoridation mandate […]
Move to ban fluoride flounders
Efforts to ban the addition of chemicals such as fluoride to Hawaii’s drinking water appear dead in the state Legislature this year. Although the Senate passed a measure in favor of a ban, a key House member says he has no plans to hear the proposal, effectively killing it this session. “We don’t have any […]
House approves fluoridation bill
Water systems serving 5,000 or more people would be forced to fluoridate the water under a bill passed 57-25 Monday by the Arkansas House of Representatives, even if the people using those systems have voted against using fluoride. House Bill 2627 by Rep. Tommy Roebuck, D-Arkadelphia, would pre-empt local ordinances on whether a city is […]
Water fluoridation vote is postponed
TRENTON – A decision that could have turned New Jersey from a state with one of the lowest rates of fluoridating the water to one of the nation’s leaders was delayed yesterday to allow the public more of a say. The state Public Health Council, which took up the issue in October, had been expected […]