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Can the voters be trusted to decide on fluoridation?
THE LEGISLATURE is requiring a revote on fluoridation in Manchester as well as a first-time vote in most of the surrounding towns. This vote will take place at the primary elections on Sept. 14. A simple majority of all voters will decide whether hydrofluorosilicic acid will continue to be added to the area’s drinking water. […]
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House bill lets towns vote on fluoride in water system
CONCORD — The House yesterday approved a process that would allow multi-town water districts to determine whether fluoride should be added to the water supply. The bill stems from a lawsuit filed by people in communities who receive their water from the Manchester Water Works and were not able to vote on whether fluoride should […]
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It’s the vote that counts
CONCORD – Residents of communities purchasing water service from the city of Manchester should be able to vote on whether the city should add fluoride to its water supply, argued opponents of a N.H. House bill that would allow only the supplying community a vote. The bill, HB 449 introduced by Sen. Lou D’Allesandro, D-Manchester, […]
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Court rules Manchester fluoridation is illegal
CONCORD, N.H. – The state Supreme Court says it’s illegal for Manchester to put fluoride in the water it pipes to customers in surrounding towns. The court gave the city until June 30, 2005, to stop fluoridating the municipal water supply, unless the Legislature amends the law before then or residents in the towns approve. […]
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Supreme Court: City water fluoridation illegal
Manchester is violating state law by putting fluoride in the water it pipes to customers in surrounding towns, the state Supreme Court ruled yesterday. The court gave the city until June 30, 2005, to stop fluoridating the municipal water supply — unless the Legislature amends current law before then. Manchester voters passed a fluoride referendum […]
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Water fluoridation under microscope at area seminar
PORTSMOUTH – In the movie “Dr. Strangelove,” the character called Col. Jack D. Ripper railed against the dangers of fluoridation of water. He said fluoridation was conjured up as a Communist plot, designed, as Ripper so famously put it in Stanley Kubrick’s 1962 movie, “to sap our precious bodily fluids.” Ripper’s character was written in […]
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Judge gets it right
JUSTICE ROBERT LYNN has a habit of making wise decisions on the Superior Court bench. Last week’s ruling in the case over the fluoridation of Manchester’s water supply was no different. Last Tuesday, Lynn ruled that Manchester broke state law when it added fluoride to its water supply a year and a half ago. State […]
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Judge: City broke law in fluoridating
A judge has ruled that Manchester city officials violated state law when they introduced fluoride into the regional water supply 18 months ago. He ordered it shut off by April 1, 2004. In the meantime, Superior Court Judge Robert J. Lynn ruled on Tuesday, Manchester city officials could either get state law changed or hold […]
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Oral Health: Yes; Truth Decay: No
“Never, never reconstitute infant formula with fluoridated water. And never let children under 3 — whose swallowing reflexes are not fully developed — use fluoridated toothpaste. Infants and young children are especially susceptible to fluoride toxicity.” These warnings from Dr. Hardy Limeback, Ph.D. in Biochemistry, D.D.S., University of Toronto’s Head of Preventive Dentistry and Past […]
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Fluoride bill draws spirited testimony
CONCORD — A bill before the state House Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs Committee to establish a study committee to reevaluate the benefits and risks of fluoridated water drew spirited testimony yesterday, most of it opposing fluoridation. But the bulk of testimony was in favor of the idea of forming a study committee that […]
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