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Athens: Chemist addresses adverse health effects of water fluoridation
A world-traveling environmental chemist told Athens citizens yesterday that the fluoride in the public water supply could cause health problems. Paul Connett, Ph.D., executive director of the Fluoride Action Network, said fluoridated water threatens to lower children’s IQs, increase the risk of bone fractures and cause infertility. Athens city water has been fluoridated since 2002, […]
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Stark County: Fluoride exceedances in residential wells
Excerpt: Also, Stark County Health Commissioner Bill Franks told the board that he didn’t believe that liquid waste from American Landfill was contaminating the local water supply. Last month, the district released a report from its consultant who had concluded that liquid waste had contaminated at least four residential wells. Franks said exceedances of fluoride, […]
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Fluoridation risks cause scientific, public disputes
Ohio University freshman Ibriham Alassaf first began researching fluoridation his senior year of high school after hearing about it on a radio show, and is pushing City Council to end the practice. Fluoridation involves adding Hydrofluorosilicic Acid to drinking water. Meant to strengthen children’s teeth, the acid is a by-product of phosphate-based lawn fertilizers. These […]
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Hydrochloric Acid Mistaken For Fluoride in Bellaire Water
No one in particular is responsible for hydrochloric acid making its way Monday into the Bellaire water supply, according to the water plant superintendent. Bellaire residents were advised Monday morning not to use village water for any reason after hydrochloric acid – mistaken for fluoride – was placed into the water supply. The warning was […]
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Fluoride costs per ton jumped from $435 to $650 for Mahoning Valley Sanitary District
MINERAL RIDGE — It will cost the Mahoning Valley Sanitary District more money in its 2008-09 fiscal year for water treatment facility chemicals — considerably more. Chief Engineer Thomas Holloway said estimates indicate the increase could be as much as $108,000. “I attribute these increases to higher fuel costs for delivering chemicals along with the […]
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Improvements planned for Marathon’s refinery
More than $206 million in improvements to clean the air and water are planned at the Marathon refinery in Stark County. The work includes $170 million in new equipment to produce low-sulfur diesel fuel, said Michael R. Armbrester, division manager for the Ohio Refining Division. In addition, $36 million is earmarked to improve waste water […]
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City to add fluoride to water supply
There will soon be a little something added to the water supply of customers of the Northern Area Water Authority treatment which serves Tipp City, Monroe Township and Vandalia. City Council voted unanimously Monday night to add enough fluoride to the water supply to raise the level to 1 milligram per liter. City Manager David […]
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Mansfield prepares to dive into fluoride issue
MANSFIELD — Fifty years after attempts were made to add flouride to Mansfield’s water supply, the city remains one of the two largest Ohio cities with no fluoridation program. Springfield is the other. Some city officials want to join the ranks of the fluoridated to protect the teeth of future generations. Before anything can happen, […]
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Springfield voters reject fluoride
There’s nothing in the water here, and that’s the way it’s going to stay. Springfield will remain the largest city in Ohio without fluoride in its water after the failure of Issue 8 in Tuesday’s election. City residents voted against adding fluoride to the city’s water supply by 57 to 43 percent. There were 8,747 […]
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Add fluoride to city water? No.
Claims that water fluoridation is safe and effective cannot withstand independent scrutiny. Nobel Laureate Dr. Arvid Carlsson, who led the successful campaign to defeat fluoridation in Sweden in the 1970s, describes it as “an obsolete practice.” While most Americans drink fluoridated water, the vast majority of people worldwide do not. Yet, according to WHO figures, […]
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