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Lobbying firm pushes for fluoridation mandate
Excerpts: … Former state representative, Bruce Hawkins of Morrilton… said his firm, whose clients include Delta Dental, is helping state Sen. David Johnson, D-Little Rock, push three bills aimed at improving children’s oral heath… Johnson said one bill would require any water system that serves 5,000 or more people to have fluoride in the water […]
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Port Angeles, Forks would lower levels of fluoride if new federal rules are adopted
Officials with the cities of Port Angeles and Forks expect they would have to lower the amount of fluoride introduced into municipal drinking water if new proposed guidelines are adopted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The proposal calls for setting the recommended dosage of 0.7 parts per million rather than the […]
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Fluoride debate reignited
Anti-fluoridation campaigners in New Zealand are claiming a victory after America’s federal government dropped its recommended level of fluoride in water for the first time in 50 years. Fluoridation of water supply is considered by the World Health Organisation as one of the top public health successes of the 20th century but some say you […]
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Calgary: Fluoride is the feud that won’t die
It was the fall of 1989. Madonna’s Like a Prayer blasted on radios, stores were filled with acid-wash jeans and moviegoers awaited the release of Michael J. Fox’s Back to the Future II. And once again, Calgarians were talking fluoride. Newspaper articles described the virtues of adding fluoride to water to prevent tooth decay since […]
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Boston Globe: US plans to lower recommended fluoride levels
ATLANTA — Fluoride in drinking water — credited with dramatically cutting cavities and tooth decay — may now be too much of a good thing. Getting too much of it causes spots on some children’s teeth. A reported increase in the spotting problem is one reason the federal government announced yesterday that it plans to […]
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WSJ: Government Advises Less Fluoride in Water
The federal government lowered its recommended limit on the amount of fluoride in drinking water for the first time in nearly 50 years, saying that spots on some children’s teeth show they are getting too much of the mineral. Fluoride has been added to U.S. water supplies since 1945 to prevent tooth decay. Since 1962, […]
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Rule change would lower fluoride level
Omaha, Lincoln, Ogallala and Council Bluffs do. North Platte, Lexington and Hastings do not. Alliance and Imperial in Nebraska and dozens of Iowa towns don’t have to. Fluoridate, that is. The debate over whether to add fluoride to drinking water to help prevent cavities in teeth has raged for 60 years. Now, new rules could […]
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Government recommends lowering fluoride levels in water
HOLLADAY — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced plans Friday to lower the recommended level of fluoride in drinking water for the first time in nearly 50 years, based on a fresh review of the science. After decades of convincing local health authorities to fluoridate water, federal health officials now say many […]
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NYC: Pol wants fluoride flushed after fed study rips city’s water
New York may be putting too much fluoride in its drinking water, a new federal review has found – and one councilman hopes that will prompt the city to stop using it altogether. New York puts 1 milligram of fluoride into every liter of water to prevent tooth decay, but the U.S. Department of Health […]
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Vermont responds to lower fluoridation recommendation
Federal agencies announced Friday they are planning to lower the recommended concentration of fluoride in drinking water, prompting at least one major Vermont water supplier to follow suit and re-igniting questions about the use of fluoride in the state’s largest city. Officials with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Environmental […]
United States, Vermont