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Wichita City Council votes to put fluoridation on November ballot
Update: After hours of discussion and comments from the public, the Wichita City Council has decided 7 – 0 to put the fluoridation issue on the November ballot. Eyewitness News Reporter Anne Meyer is following the story, look for updates as soon as they become available. ——– The Wichita City Council will have two options […]
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Portland: Photos From the Anti-Fluoridation Rally on 8/21
Rally organizer Angel Lambart is interviewed by KOIN channel 6 reporter Ken Bodie. Several attendees of the rally discussed fluoride and its effects on children, especially babies. A giant poster was created to display to cars passing. Fluorides effect on local brewers was a concern. Protesters went to great lengths […]
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Editorial: Fluoridate Portland’s water
Drinking-water fluoridation, which doesn’t happen in Portland, deserves to be about as controversial as water chlorination, which does. Like chlorination, fluoridation prevents illness through the use of a substance you wouldn’t want to chug, and it occurs safely throughout the country. About 74 percent of Americans on community systems get fluoridated water. And even in […]
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Fluoride Mitigation Centre in Gujrat will be set up within the 12th Five year Plan
The Government today informed that a Fluoride Mitigation Centre in Gujrat will be set up within the 12th Five year Plan. Rural Development Minister and the Minister for Drinking Water and Sanitation Shri Jairam Ramesh said in a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha that the Centre has already approved the proposal […]
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Hot Springs: Expanded water plant will fluoridate Village water
A $170,000 grant will allow Hot Spring Village drinking water to be fluoridated for the first time. Of the Village’s 14,000 residents, about 750 of them are under the age of 18, based on a 2009 Voice survey of area children. You must be an online subscriber to view this story. The full version of […]
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Foreign Journalists Kidnapped and Threatened With Death in China
A German film crew was recently attacked and held hostage in China for being ‘foreign spies’. Their crime? Reporting on pollution at a Do-Flouride factory (1).The act of Chinese nationals, kidnapping and then beating a foreign crew, show not only an increase in the xenophobia and intolerance of foreigners on Chinese soil (2), but also […]
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FactFinder 12 Scientific Survey: Water Fluoridation
A FactFinder 12 Scientific Survey of Wichita residents finds significant support for adding fluoride to the city’s water supply. Even more want to see it put to a vote. Here Are The Results of SurveyUSA News Poll #19509 Geography Surveyed: City of Wichita Data Collected: 08/17/2012 Release Date: 08/17/2012 20:40 ET Sponsor: KWCH-TV Wichita 1 […]
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Oliver Springs seeks to stop putting fluoride in city water
OLIVER SPRINGS — The long-simmering controversy over putting fluoride in public water supplies, which has raged off and on for decades, has reignited here. The town’s Water Board has voted to quit adding the chemical to the water, expressing concern that it is a hazardous substance. An Oak Ridge dentist, meanwhile, is waging a one-man […]
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Professor Iwao Ojima to receive 2013 ACS Award for Creative Work in Fluorine Chemistry
Stony Brook University Chemistry Professors Iwao Ojima, PhD, and Nancy Goroff, PhD, have been selected to receive 2013 American Chemical Society (ACS) Awards for pioneering work in their respective specialties. Dr. Ojima, a Distinguished Professor and Director of the Institute of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery at Stony Brook, will be awarded the 2013 ACS […]
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Oregon Cities Debate Water Fluoridation
Across America, two-thirds of the population drinks water treated with fluoride. Oregon’s fluoridation rate is about 23 percent — 48th out of fifty states. Portland is now the largest city in the country without fluoridated water but a coalition of supporters is lobbying to change that. KLCC’s Tiffany Eckert takes a look at this controversial […]