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OUR OPINION: Brockton needs finally to go ahead with fluoridating the city’s drinking water
Brockton’s public drinking water naturally has about 0.3 parts per million of the mineral fluoride. Adding fluoride would raise that to the federally recommended 0.7 parts per million. That’s what a volunteer group of citizens, One Smile Brockton, wants the city to do. Forty-four years after Brockton’s Board of Health voted to add fluoride to […]
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Brockton: City Takes First Steps to Fluoridate Drinking Water
Brockton officials have taken the first steps towards fluoridating the city’s drinking water. In the early 1970s, the City Council voted down a measure that would have added fluoride to the water supply. The Finance Committee recently met with One Smile Brockton and the city’s board of health to discuss the subject and talk about […]
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After 1972 effort failed, it’s try, try again for Brockton flouride
Note from FAN: Fluoride and fluoridation are misspelt throughout the article BROCKTON – Flouridation of Brockton water was ordered by the city’s board of health in 1972. But the initiative fell to the wayside, after reaching the Brockton City Council. Now, a group of community organizers and city officials are once more supporting the addition […]
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Massachusetts: A new citizen-sponsored Resolution calls for an end to water fluoridation
This resolution is being launched by the new Massachusetts Fluoridation News, a weekly publication by East Coast Science News, P.O. Box 797, Belchertown, MA 01007. There will be a $3.00/year fee so that readers can indicate to the publisher that the newsletter is useful to them. Please make checks payable to East Coast Science News. […]
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Gloucester: City voters want fluoride in water
A majority of Gloucester voters want the city to keep adding fluoride to its water system. By a count of 5,255 votes to 2,813, city residents who went to the polls Tuesday answered yes to the ballot’s only referendum question, a nonbinding poll asking “shall the public water supply for domestic use in the city […]
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Cambridge lowers fluoride levels in drinking water
The city of Cambridge has decreased the target fluoride concentration in Cambridge drinking water by 30 percent, in accordance with new federal guidance. This past April, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services lowered its recommended level of fluoride in drinking water for the first time in half a century. The new recommendation is […]
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Gloucester: Passions on both sides of fluoridation debate
To fluoridate or not to fluoridate? That is the question being put to Gloucester voters in a non-binding referendum on Nov. 3. Passions about fluoridation run high around the globe, not just in Gloucester. Public health experts point to 70 years of U.S. safety in adding miniscule amounts of fluoride to public drinking water and […]
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Fluoride level reduced in Sharon water
The town of Sharon has reduced the level of fluoride in its public water in response to a change last spring to federal guidelines. The US Department of Health and Human Services issued a recommendation in April, cutting the optimal amount to prevent tooth decay to 0.7 milligrams per liter. The Sharon Board of Health […]
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Gloucester. SITTING IN: An initiative with no teeth
FLUORIDE helps reduce tooth decay. That’s not just the opinion of a child of the 1950s who spent too many hours in the dentist chair and has the dental work to prove it. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Washington, D.C. calls community water FLUORIDATION “one of 10 great public health achievements […]
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Gloucester: Dentists, doctors offer pro-fluoride case
The other side What: Cape Ann Fluoride Action Network presents a forum on why Gloucester should stop fluoridating its water. The short documentary “Professional Perspectives” will be shown, followed a question and answer period. When: Thursday, Oct. 29, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Where: Friend Room, Sawyer Free Library, 2 Dale Ave. Dr. Myron Allukian […]
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