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Mount Airy: State review keeping fluoride out of city water
Fluoride is being left out of Mount Airy’s water supply pending the end of a state moratorium triggered by elevated amounts of that chemical being found in city water last month. The use of fluoride was temporarily halted on May 6, when the problem was discovered, and won’t be resumed until later, a city official […]
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Fairbanks editorial. Remove fluoride: Task force recommendation followed a thorough review
After a lengthy review of scientific knowledge and public sentiment, a task force convened by the city has concluded fluoride should no longer be added to public water systems in Fairbanks. The Fairbanks City Council should follow that advice. The council could vote as early as tonight on an ordinance from Mayor Jerry Cleworth to […]
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The Environmental Injustice of Water Fluoridation
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Southampton: South central Strategic Health Authority praised by British Association for the Study of Community Dentistry
HEALTH bosses have been praised for their decision to plough ahead with controversial plans to fluoridate Hampshire tap water. Members of the British Association for the Study of Community Dentistry (BASCD) enthusiastically backed South Central Strategic Health Authority’s move to work towards adding fluoride to the water supplies delivered to nearly 200,000 people. The organisation […]
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Ralph Nader on mandatory fluoridation
In a statement released in Washington, DC today (Friday, June 3) consumer advocate Ralph Nader, responding to growing media coverage and developments in the Atlanta area on the risks posed by water fluoridation, said, “It’s way overdue for this country to have an extended and open scientific and regulatory debate on fluoridation. There should be […]
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Poynette: Portage man takes issue with fluoride
Two years ago, adding fluoride to the public water supply became a hot-button issue in the village of Poynette. This week, the issue was stirred up in Portage. A city committee listened Thursday to Ray Gramza of Portage rail against the substance that was added to municipal water supplies across the country in the 1940s […]
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Letter: Let’s re-open debate on fluoride in our taps
So yet another pre-election promise has been broken. This time a last-minute promise proposed at the 11th hour by the Labour Party in an attempt to sway voters: water charges. We are supposed to be convinced that these charges will ‘create jobs’ like those that will ‘result’ from raiding people’s private pension funds. Seeing as […]
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Assam: Fluoride contamination up
GUWAHATI: A recent survey showed that 18 districts in Assam have become prone to arsenic and fluoride contamination triggering alarm. “I live in Lakhiminagar where the presence of fluoride in ground water has grown up from 1 mg/l to 1.5 mg/l in a year’s time. But it’s not the only area where we found ground […]
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Muskoka: Leave fluoride out, insists reader
Our district council recently voted (April 26, 2011) to continue artificial water fluoridation (AWF) in Muskoka. Since February, several medical officers of health and two dentists have given their robust approval to AWF, stating their concern for providing the “benefits of fluoridation” for the entire population, particularly those of low socio-economic status. They have told […]
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Piney Point: Water leaking from mound of radioactive waste near Port Manatee
Regulators say the leak from the former Piney Point phosphate plant can be fixed Millions of gallons of potentially contaminated water are being released into Tampa Bay in an effort to prevent the catastrophic collapse of a reservoir at the former Piney Point phosphate plant. The water — mixed with sand and likely filled with […]
United States, Florida Phosphate Industry