CDC Telebriefing Transcript Two CDC Reports Present New Data: Fluoridated Drinking Water and Women With Diabetes February 21, 2002 MS. Coffin: Hi, everyone. Thank you very much for calling in today. We’re going to be discussing two CDC reports that were released today in the MMWR. The first one will be Populations Receiving Optimally Fluoridated […]
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Palm Bay to inject fluoride into its water system
PALM BAY — Brenda Darras never thought much about fluoride in her drinking water until her children started getting cavities. Now the Palm Bay mother visits pediatric dentist Raymond Pollock far more often than she wants to get treatment for her 7-year-old daughter, Brittani, and 4-year-old daughter Kayla. “The first time I was here, they […]
Advisory fluoridation vote set Nov. 5 for Washoe County
Washoe County voters will give their opinions at the ballot box this fall about whether public water systems should have fluoridation. The Washoe County Commission voted unanimously Tuesday to include the advisory fluoride question on the Nov. 5 ballot. The vote is not binding. But local water providers cannot pursue fluoridation of public water supplies […]
Fluoride issue raised in Muskegon County
The Muskegon County Health Department wants children to have healthy teeth, and is going into local elementary schools with a voluntary fluoride rinse program to help that happen. On a weekly basis students in Ealy and Shoreline elementary schools in Whitehall, and Oehrli Elementary School in neighboring Montague are rinsing their mouth with a fluoride […]
Reclaimed mine is not as safe as once thought
AUBURNDALE – It has been widely hailed as a success story, a sterling effort that two decades ago reclaimed strip-mined phosphate lands and converted them into a state preserve attracting thousands each year. In reality, Tenoroc Fish Management Area in Polk County may be closer to a horror story, the land tainted by high levels […]
Under The Volcano (Part I)
“By design, you know, you have these failures,” he says. As part of its agreement with the TNRCC, Crown put in a $1.3 million scrubber to attack the problem of excess sulfur emissions. Critics railed that the company was skirting other, costlier controls. But even Abraham concedes that Crown’s sulfur dioxide emissions are way down. […]
Under the Volcano (Part II)
Old facilities such as Crown’s Pasadena refinery benefit from another provision in the law favorable to polluters. Plants in existence before the Texas Clean Air Act of 1971 were exempted from a permit requirement mandating that facilities use the best available controls to cut pollution. Only if these grandfathered facilities added significant new sources of […]
2 bills may halt water fluoridation
FARMINGTON — The Davis County Board of Health is opposing two bills recently introduced into the 2002 legislative session that, if passed, would effectively prevent water fluoridation. HB158 would modify the Safe Drinking Water Act to prevent any substance from being added to public water supplies that has not been approved by the U.S. Food […]
Proposed Bills Challenge fluoridation plans
FARMINGTON — Health officials are vigorously opposing two state lawmakers’ proposed amendments to the Safe Drinking Water Act they claim would put a kink in their efforts to distribute fluoridated drinking water to each Davis County city. County Health Director Lewis R. Garrett said “late-in-the-game” legislation sponsored by Rep. Glenn Donnelson, R-North Ogden, and Rep. […]
Mandatory fluoridation bill defeated in Hawaii
Yesterday, the state House Committee on Health got an earful from folks who weren’t about to swallow the Department of Health’s fluoridation claims. In an often tumultuous hearing that lasted more than six hours, the panel heard citizens voice their disapproval of House Bill 2761, which related to community oral health and included the phrase: […]