About 24,000 Salt Lake Valley residents will not get fluoride in their water for at least a year. Or will they? The Salt Lake County Council ruled Tuesday that the Holliday Water Co. and the White City Improvement District could delay adding fluoride until Dec. 31, 2004. But the Salt Lake Valley Health Department says […]
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CDC sniffs out Scotchgard
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is considering including the active ingredient in 3M Co.’s newly reformulated Scotchgard in a study of chemicals suspected of having health effects. The CDC started publishing its “National Exposure Report” in 2001. The third report is due out in January 2005. The last report tracked 116 chemicals. It […]
Drug Companies and Government Medical Research
BETHESDA, Md. – “Subject No. 4” died at 1:44 a.m. on June 14, 1999, in the immense federal research clinic of the National Institutes of Health. The cause of death was clear: a complication from an experimental treatment for kidney inflammation using a drug made by a German company, Schering AG. Among the first to […]
Subverting U.S. Health
In 1955, reporter Edward R. Murrow asked Dr. Jonas Salk who owned the patent on the polio vaccine that Salk had invented. “Well, the people,” a puzzled Salk responded. “There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?” Dr. Salk’s professional life was as far removed from that of today’s researchers at the National Institutes […]
Watsonville man files suit against state and county
Several weeks ago, after a Santa Cruz County Superior Court Commissioner decided Watsonville resident Nick Bulaich could not participate in the lawsuit that pits the city of Watsonville against the state Department of Health Services, Bulaich decided to take his issues over fluoridation elsewhere. Consider that done. Last Tuesday, Bulaich’s attorney, Gary Wesley filed papers […]
Sultan to open fluoride spigot
SULTAN — The city will begin fluoridating its drinking water next month as it taps into Everett’s drinking-water supply. Sultan expects its growth will eventually exceed the amount of water that its own system can provide. During maximum summer usage, city businesses and residents use about 1.2 million gallons a day, all the city’s water […]
Fluoridation to begin in phosphate capital
BARTOW – The city is nearly ready to begin fluoridating its water. The fluoridation system is in and testing has gone without a hitch, said Ron Johnson, supervisor of the city’s water plant. The next step calls for the city to notify everyone on the water system about the change, which will take place during […]
County will vote on fluoridation — once again
FARMINGTON — Those who think fluoride is a done deal should think again. On Thursday, Davis County commissioners approved a resolution which places the fluoride issue back on the 2004 ballot. Davis County voters approved placing fluoride in the water in the 2000 election, but the issue hasn’t been out of the limelight since, as […]
Fluoride foe steps up fight
WATSONVILLE — After losing a battle to participate in a local lawsuit, the city’s foremost fluoride foe opened a new front in Sacramento Tuesday. Nick Bulaich, who spearheaded a successful ballot initiative last year that in effect banned fluoride from city water, filed suit against state and county health officials in Sacramento Superior Court for […]
Davis will vote again on fluoridation
FARMINGTON — Fluoridated drinking water has floated back onto the ballot in Davis County. The same trio of county commissioners who allowed Davis County residents to vote for fluoride in public water systems in 2000, voted unanimously Tuesday to hold another vote on the matter in 2004. “The job before the commission today is not […]