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Orono and Veazie Town Councils to hold Referendum to end fluoridation on June 8th.
Information about Fluoride During the past year, the Orono and Veazie Town Councils have discussed and voted to hold a Municipal Referendum Election on Tuesday, June 8, 2021 for the purpose of allowing the voters to consider whether to cease fluoridating the public water supply. State Law vests all power regarding the decision to add […]
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Orono and Veazie voters will decide in June referendum whether to stop fluoridating public water
ORONO, Maine — Orono and Veazie residents will decide in June whether to stop fluoridating their public water supply — which could end a nearly 60-year practice. Fluoride is a mineral naturally found in water, soil and even in some foods and beverages. People can be exposed to it on a daily basis, most commonly […]
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UNE and partners collaborate on strategy for preventing oral disease in rural communities
The University of New England Dental Hygiene Program, Maine Area Health Education Center (AHEC) Network, Partnership for Children’s Oral Health, and The Opportunity Alliance have partnered to provide opportunities for UNE health profession students to perform oral health screenings and fluoride varnishes to children in rural and underserved communities. Students will provide the services at […]
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‘Forever Chemicals’ Coming to Your Table, if Not Already There
PFAS in livestock, crops, gardens raising questions states struggle to answer Three farms shuttered but problem could be more widespread Third-generation dairy farmer Fred Stone lost his cows, his livelihood, and his plans for retirement after opening a letter on Nov. 3, 2016. The letter, from his local water district, said a well providing his […]
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Letter: Maybe it’s time for Maine to reconsider fluoridated water
Out of 130 Maine cities and towns that added fluoride to their public water supplies, the seven towns in the Kennebunk, Kennebunkport & Wells Water District are the only towns that reconsidered the referendum, “Should fluoride be added to the public water for the intended purpose of preventing tooth decay?” The referendum was voted down […]
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Maine PFAS Tracker – Maine Standards and Proposed Act
Pierce Atwood LLP offers this summary of Maine Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) standards as a convenience in evaluating PFAS and tracking Maine Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) regulatory and Maine legislative developments. Levels are provided below in parts per million (ppm), parts per billion (ppb), or parts per trillion (ppt), depending on the matrix […]
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NYU Dentistry students to bring free clinic to Machias
Note from the Fluoride Action Network: Machias is a fluoridated community in Washington County in Maine. The majority of the population on municipal water in Washington County are fluoridated – see more info below ______________________________________________________________________ MACHIAS, Maine (WABI) New York University students are returning to Machias to offer free dental care for one week in […]
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Cave Hill School: Officials say elevated fluoride in school’s water not cause for alarm
FRANKLIN — Parents at the Cave Hill School in Franklin received notification yesterday that there were elevated fluoride levels in the school’s water. Regional School Unit 24 (RSU 24) Business Manager David Bridgham, however, said that the matter is mostly a precautionary one. “This is not anything new. We’ve had a treatment system in place […]
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Year in Review: Fluoride removed from KKWWD water supply
KENNEBUNK – Fluoride was a hotly debated topic from Arundel to York in 2016 after the citizen’s group Campaign to Reconsider Water Fluoridation gathered enough signatures to put the issue before voters on the November ballot. Voters in the communities of Kennebunk, Kennebunkport, Wells, Ogunquit, Arundel, Biddeford Pool and Fortune’s Rocks and the Cape Neddick […]
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Kennebunk-area voters decide to cease water fluoridation
Voters have decided to stop fluoridating water in the Kennebunk, Kennebunkport and Wells Water District. Residents of seven towns in the district voted to stop treating drinking water with fluoride, 9,922 votes to 5,625 votes. Kennebunk, Kennebunkport, Wells, Ogunquit, Arundel and parts of Biddeford and York get their water from the district. Fluoride is commonly […]
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