CANTON – About 50 critics and advocates of a fluoridated water system packed the municipal building Thursday to try to persuade the Canton village Board of Trustees to adopt their position. The board is scheduled to vote Monday on whether the village will resume fluoridation, but a decision may be delayed because trustees David P. […]
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Group Of Residents Sues Chemical Firms
Nearly 340 people filed suit Wednesday in circuit court in Madison County against three major chemical companies, claiming that they suffered poisoning from lead and other chemicals discarded as waste by the companies’ plants in Southern Illinois. Several of the plaintiffs live in Ellis Grove, Ill., in Randolph County. Other plaintiffs include Charlene Mercurio of […]
Wichita Health Board will revisit fluoride
Physician Donna Sweet and dentist John Lewis will head efforts to revisit the idea of adding fluoride to the city’s drinking water, the Sedgwick County Advisory Board of Health decided today. Both are members of the board and will begin by talking about fluoridation with candidates for mayor and City Council. In 1999, the board […]
Martin County water to get fluoride
Martin County residents won’t be able to taste it, but they’ll soon be fighting tooth decay with every sip of county water. The Martin County Commission on Tuesday favored adding “therapeutic levels” of fluoride to the county’s water supply. When added to drinking water, fluoride has been shown to strengthen tooth enamel and prevent decay. […]
Report to outline benefits, downfalls of fluoride in water
The fluoride technical study group is expected today to put the final touches on its long-awaited report on the pros and cons of the continued fluoridation of Fort Collins’ drinking water supply. “All the research has been done, and the ideas are down,” said Patty Bigner, spokeswoman for the Fort Collins Utilities Department. “They’re not […]
Louisiana – Targeted for more fluoridation?
NEW ORLEANS — Community drinking water not treated with fluoride is an open invitation to tooth decay, a dental consultant to the Louisiana Office of Public Health said Friday. “We have to have fluoride in the water, or we get decay,” Dr. Greg Folse, who sits on the faculty of LSU Health Sciences Center’s School […]
Health panel criticized for handling of fluoride issue
City staff in Independence will address comments from a citizen who is complaining about the way the Advisory Board of Health is treating the fluoride issue. John Pennell, a frequent speaker at City Council meetings, says he has dedicated himself to finding studies to disprove the blanket statements from local dentists and health board members […]
Massachusetts Dental Society “Honored” with Dirty Dozen Award
Southborough – The Massachusetts Dental Society (MDS) today received a 2002 Dirty Dozen Award spotlighting it as one of the twelve top polluters in the Commonwealth for unregulated mercury discharges. In the process of restoring teeth with so-called “silver” fillings – actually 50% mercury – dentists nation wide use approximately 40 metric tons of mercury […]
Phosphate industry aims to be corporate neighbor
The phosphate mining industry attempts to promote favorable regulations and a positive image in the ways one might expect of a billion-dollar global industry. The industry lobbies lawmakers, contributes to community coffers and publishes literature that suggests phosphate mining pumps billions of dollars into the economy and leaves behind reclaimed lands in a near-pristine condition. […]
Whose Hands are Dirty?
Thimerosal is a preservative that contains mercury and was used for many years as an additive in some routinely administered children’s vaccines. Fears developed a few years ago that the additive might have been causing dangerously elevated levels of mercury in infants, resulting in neurological impairment and, in some cases, autism. Studies thus far have […]