Every time Rosie Webb opened wide, her mother winced. Inside the 8-year-old’s mouth were teeth stained with brown spots, clear signs of advancing decay. “You could see stuff,” recalls Lucille Webb, 45, a Central Point mother of two. “She had cavities.” Daily brushing didn’t help. Neither did gargling with peroxide, a home remedy Webb hoped […]
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DuPont agrees to $1.1 mln settlement over HF leak
WILMINGTON, Del, Feb 28 (Reuters) – DuPont Co. (nyse: DD – news – people), the No. 2 U.S. chemical company, on Friday said it agreed to a $1.1 million settlement with the U.S. government over a hydrogen fluoride leak from its Kentucky plant in 1997. About 11,500 pounds of hydrogen fluoride, a gas with a […]
Sides take issue over conclusions of Fort Collins fluoride report
Is it safe? That is the question that has been posed to the tens of thousands of Fort Collins area residents who drink tap water treated with fluoride. While advocates of placing the cavity-fighting substance in the city’s water supply say it promotes dental health, especially for residents who have trouble affording dental care, opponents […]
Threat by state escalates Watsonville fluoride war
WATSONVILLE – The Watsonville fluoride war is not over. More than three months after city voters rejected the prospect of adding fluoride to the public water supply, the state is poised to force the city to do just that. State health officials told the city they plan to issue a compliance letter within a few […]
Watsonville fluoride case goes to court
WATSONVILLE — City leaders, caught between a state order to fluoridate their drinking water and city voters who passed an ordinance that essentially prohibits that, have opted to let the courts decide. In the latest turn in Watsonville’s fluoride saga, the council voted Tuesday night to seek what is known as a “declaratory judgment” on […]
Hawaii State Fluoridation Ban May Pass
In an unusual move, the state Legislature is only two votes away from ending the decades-long debate over fluoridation. Although fluoridation has been a hotly debated issue since the 1950s, Senate Bill 1038, SD1, which would ban additives in Hawaii’s drinking water, has quietly and quickly passed the Senate and a House committee this month. […]
Santa Maria Fluoridation foes submit 4,545 names
Activists on Monday brought a foot-tall stack of names to Santa Maria city officials — a petition calling for a citywide vote on whether to stop fluoridation of the city water supply. Members of the Santa Maria Citizens for Safe Drinking Water, who began gathering names in October, filed the document bearing 4,545 names at […]
Dumping Acidic Water In Gulf Is Best Of Dismal Alternatives
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection proposes an unusual way to deal with a grave pollution threat to Tampa Bay. It wants to discharge nutrient-laced water into the Gulf of Mexico. The agency is seeking emergency approval by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency of its plan to get rid of the 600 million gallons of […]
Canton Stops Fluoridation – Spurred by College Faculty, Staff & Students
NEW YORK, Feb. 21 /PRNewswire/ — Village trustees voted, on February 18, 2003, to halt fluoridation in Canton, New York. One hundred and thirty faculty and staff members of Canton’s St. Lawrence University and 300 students petitioned the village trustees to ban fluoride from its water supply, reports the New York State Coalition Opposed to […]
Port Angeles has `lots of work’ before developing fluoridation timeline
PORT ANGELES — City officials have to develop a timeline for installation of a water fluoridation system. “There’s lots of work to be done before awarding the contract and fluoridating the water,” Public Works Director Glenn Cutler said Wednesday. Cutler’s comments came a day after the City Council voted 6-1 to accept a Washington Dental […]