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CDC awards Missouri public water systems for fluoridation quality
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services announced that 26 community water systems have been awarded a Water Fluoridation Quality Award from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Fluoridation is the adjustment of fluoride in drinking water to a level that is effective for preventing tooth decay. The award recognizes those […]
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Two local water suppliers recognized for water fluoridation
Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services announced this week 26 community water systems, including two in Cole County, have been awarded a water fluoridation quality award from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The two systems honored in Cole County are Jefferson City and Cole County Public Water Supply District No. […]
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Park Hills Water Department awarded for fluoridation quality
Note from Fluoride Action Network: We add this article to our site for historical reasons only. (EC) JEFFERSON CITY, MO – The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services announced today that Park Hills Water Department has been awarded a 2020 Reaffirmation Award from the American Dental Association (ADA), Association of State and Territorial Dental […]
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CDC awards Missouri public water systems for 50 years of fluoridation quality
Note from Fluoride Action Network: We add this article to our site for historical reasons only. (EC) JEFFERSON CITY, MO – The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services announced today that Poplar Bluff Municipal Utilities and Charleston Water Treatment Plant have been awarded the 2020 Community Water Fluoridation 50 Year Award from the American […]
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Ebb and flow of fluoride debate reaches Columbia
COLUMBIA — A dial spins slowly clockwise on a basement pump at Columbia’s water treatment plant in McBaine. Outside, in the cold late-autumn air, millions of gallons of water roar in massive, swimming-pool size softening tanks. A gurgle rises from three-feet deep channels built under zigzagging walkways, carrying water to filters. With each revolution of […]
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Missouri town averts rollback of fluoridation with help from early notification law
Law in place in Tennessee, Alabama, Texas, New York, Missouri Park Hills, Mo. — Missouri is only one of five states that has enacted an early notification law, and it came in handy when the community of Park Hills in the southeast part of the Show-Me State came close to having its community water fluoridation […]
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Park Hills to continue fluoridation
Excerpt The Park Hills City Council met in regular session last week to vote on several ordinances and resolutions. Council members voted to purchase a new backhoe for the Water Department, buy a new rock crawler for the Public Works Department, enter into agreements for paving projects, and continue the use of fluoride in the […]
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Park Hills discusses water fluoridation, fire district, code enforcement
Park Hills City Council members held a work session Tuesday in which they approved maintenance to city water tanks, heard about water fluoridation from representatives of the local dental practice Upward Smiles, and discussed several other matters. The session began with a delegation from Upward Smiles speaking to the council about the benefits of adding […]
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Parents in Lincoln County blame tap water for their children’s discolored teeth
WINFIELD, Mo. (KMOV.com) — Albert McDaniel is the father of five children and recently three of them were diagnosed with fluorosis. That’s a cosmetic condition that causes the teeth of children to have white spots and discoloration because of the consumption of too much fluoride. “If you’ve got kids 9 and under, don’t let them […]
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Lincoln County PWSD 1 Has Levels of Fluoride Above Drinking Water Standards
IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR DRINKING WATER LINCOLN COUNTY PWSD 1 Has Levels of Fluoride Above Drinking Water Standards Este informe contiene informacion muy importante sobre su agua potable. Traduzcalo o hable con alguien que lo entienda bien. Our water system recently violated a drinking water standard Although this is not an emergency, as our customers, […]
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