ERIE – The Colorado Department of Health and Environment isn’t smiling over Erie’s decision not to fluoridate the town’s drinking water. Town trustees voted 5-2 late Tuesday to not add fluoride to Erie’s water supply despite its use by every other major Boulder County community. Fluoride has been proven to prevent cavities, but too much […]
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Fluoridated water appeals to many in Kennewick
Most parents of Kennewick elementary school students aren’t giving their children fluoride supplements, but they want fluoride added to the city’s water supply, according to a new survey. Parent-teacher groups at five public elementary schools and two private schools agreed to survey parents of students this month in a project started by the Tri-Cities Health […]
Fluoridated Kentucky Part of the Oral Health Crisis
WILLIAMSBURG, Ky. (AP) – Twelve-year-old Jordan Rickett nervously waited his turn in the Whitley County Central Elementary School gym, watching as a classmate seated in a dental chair got his teeth examined. “He’s sure been there a long time,” Jordan said, fidgeting. “I hope it doesn’t take that long for me.” For children in parts […]
DEP let phosphate waste flow into preserve
The state agency in charge of protecting Florida’s environment has allowed the dumping of millions of gallons of waste from a shuttered Manatee County phosphate plant into an aquatic preserve at the mouth of Tampa Bay. Since Oct. 22, the state Department of Environmental Protection has allowed the Piney Point Phosphates plant to pump 10-million […]
UH school wins out over Lanai fluoride
46 state lawmakers write a letter making their case for how to use tobacco money State legislators apparently believe funding a medical school is a healthier use of tobacco settlement funds than fluoridating Lanai’s drinking water to prevent tooth decay, according to their recent actions. The Legislature approved $150 million from the tobacco funds for […]
Modesto City Council puts formal end to flouride plans
Sink in their teeth and hold on? Not this time. In what might be their final act on one of the more controversial local issues in the past couple of years, Modesto City Council members voted Tuesday to drop the idea of fluoridating tap water. Although a majority of council members personally favor fluoridation in […]
Fluoridation Gets Flushed on Election Day
NEW YORK, Nov. 12 /PRNewswire/ — The following press release was issued today by the New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation: Voters on November 6, 2001, rejected fluoridation in several U.S. cities despite hundreds of thousands of dollars spent by fluoridation proponents in public relations campaigns. This adds to a growing list of cities […]
Coahoma County’s water fluoride-deficient, health officials say
Residents of Coahoma County don’t get the amount of fluoride in tap water recommended by the state Health Department. They join more than half of the state’s residents in that category. Fluoride is a naturally occurring chemical put in public water supplies since the 1950s to help protect teeth from decay. Between 0.8 and 1.2 […]
Modesto City Council has next move on fluoride
Rosalie Redenbaugh’s grandson is 4, an age when some health professionals believe ingesting fluoride promotes a lifetime of strong teeth. But Redenbaugh could not have been happier with voters’ emphatic rejection Tuesday of Measure M, a proposal to add fluoride to Modesto’s water supply. “I’m so thrilled that it failed,” she said Wednesday. “I didn’t […]
Redding poll finds mixed support for fluoride
Two-thirds of Redding residents surveyed favor water fluoridation if they don’t have to pay for it, a Shasta County Department of Public Health-commissioned poll shows. Only 44.4 percent of those sampled would swallow a $1.50 monthly water rate increase to pay for the cavity-fighting strategy. In September, the City Council endorsed a fluoride program, which […]