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Amherstburg: Windsor-Essex County Health Unit encourages council to keep fluoride
Dr. Allen Heimann, medical officer of health with the Windsor-Essex County Health Unit, is urging Amherstburg to keep fluoride in its drinking water. Heimann appeared before town council Monday night and stated that the Center for Disease Control has called the fluoridation of water as one of the greatest accomplishments for public health of the […]
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Amherstburg: Medical officer defends fluoride
There is no credible evidence that adding fluoride to drinking water is harmful or contributes to the concentration of fluoride in the waterways, Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Allen Heimann told Amherstburg council Monday. There has been recent concern that since fluoride is available in many over-the-counter products like toothpaste, municipalities don’t need to […]
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New Mexico: NRC seeks public comment on draft report for proposed uranium deconversion facility
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is seeking public comment on a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) on a proposed facility in Lea County, N.M., that would deconvert depleted uranium hexafluoride from the uranium enrichment industry to make it more suitable for disposal. The DEIS contains the staff’s preliminary assessment that no large environmental impacts are expected […]
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Smithville begins adding fluoride to city water supply
The Smithville water treatment plant will begin fluoridating the city’s water supply again starting Tuesday, January 10, according to Secretary-Treasurer Hunter Hendrixson. Though neither a state or federal requirement, the new liquid fluoride system was installed as part of the rehabilitation of the water plant, according to the wishes of city officials and members of […]
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Calgary. Editorial: Long in the tooth
Calgary council has bitten off more than it could chew on the fluoride issue. Aldermen voted last year to stop adding fluoride to the city’s drinking water, and promised to divert the $750,000 in annual savings to improve dental health of poor children. Now, former Ward 9 alderman Joe Ceci says not one dollar has […]
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Pinellas County: Tampa Bay Times editorial
On FLUORIDE, a vote for sense over paranoia At least one Pinellas County government, the Pinellas Park City Council, has the good sense to put public health safety above irrational, ideological pandering. In exploring ways to restore fluoride to its drinking water after the Pinellas County Commission buckled to the forces of paranoia and ignorance […]
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Olivehurst and Plumas Lake: Fluoride discussion on January 19
The water-fluoridation debate in the Olivehurst Public Utility District will come to a head this month. At the district’s Jan. 19 board meeting, directors could make a decision on whether to keep putting the controversial chemical compound in the water despite a handful of residents who want it out. “We don’t need fluoride in the […]
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Pinellas Park council will consider restoring fluoride to drinking water it gets from the county
The County Commission’s decision last year to take fluoride out of the drinking water upset Pinellas Park council member Jerry Mullins, whose first thought was of the children, especially the poorer ones, in his city. “We have a lot of children in our town who probably don’t get the best dental care,” said Mullins, whose […]
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Iowa Water Fluoride Database
The Iowa Department of Public Health lists all the communities in the state that have added FLUORIDE, are deficit or have fluoride naturally occurring in water systems… Read full article See Iowa’s Fluoride database
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Calgary breaking fluoride promise, anti-poverty activist claims
A former alderman is calling on the city to “live up to its end of the fluoride bargain” and allocate funds to improve the dental health of poor children. It’s been almost a year since council voted to stop adding fluoride to the city’s drinking water and use the $750,000 in annual savings to sponsor […]
Canada, Alberta