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N.J. to consider fluoride in water
TRENTON – Fluoride is going on trial in New Jersey tomorrow. The crusade by government, dental and medical groups to inject fluoride into all public water supplies to ward off tooth decay will collide with groups that assert government has no business “mass medicating” the public with the compound, subjecting people to myriad attendant risks. […]
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A debate with bite: Fluoride on agenda
TRENTON – Whether brittle, mottled or cavity-ridden, children’s teeth will be the subject of passionate debate before regulators here tomorrow as supporters and detractors argue about mandating fluoride in the state’s public water supply. Dentists, fluoride’s most vocal advocates, cite studies that show declining rates of tooth decay in states treating water with fluoride. They […]
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Sea Isle stopped putting fluoride in water, didn’t tell city residents
SEA ISLE CITY – In a 1990 referendum, Sea Isle residents voted to add fluoride to the city’s water supply, but they learned recently that the mechanism that adds the chemical to the water has not worked for at least two years. Engineer John Feairheller told the City Commission on Tuesday that the costs for […]
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Watch out New Jersey, especially the poor
Dear All, We are a few days late circulating this newspaper story from New Jersey. Unbelievably, on the very day that we woke up to find that fluoridation had been rejected all across the United States (except for Beaverton, Oregon and several small communities in Maine, see below), the forces of ignorance were busily promoting […]
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Jersey City Council backs return to fluoridating water
Nearly a quarter-century after fluoride was removed from Jersey City’s drinking water, lawmakers want to put it back. The City Council this week unanimously passed a resolution urging the Municipal Utilities Authority to fluoridate the water. The resolution states that research has shown fluoridation to be effective in reducing tooth decay and notes endorsement of […]
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N.J. dentists making push for fluoridated water
Once a week, elementary school children throughout Paterson swish fluoride rinse in their mouths for one full minute before spitting it into a cup. Pupils at seven schools around Bergen County also rinse with fluoride, and beginning this fall, so will youngsters in Passaic. It’s the only way health officials know for certain the children […]
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Fluoridation in water – Here we go again
Amazing, isn’t it? After more than a half century of fluoridating water in America — and after a half century of overwhelming scientific evidence pointing to the safety and benefits of fluoridated water — a handful of vocal opponents have kept fluoride out of the drinking water of so many communities. Including, it appears, Galloway […]
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Hudson County: Next in Line for Fluoridation?
…clothes or food, much less toothpaste,” said Dr. Kavita Ghai, a Union City dentist and one of many medical professionals in the state clamoring to add fluoride to the water supply. “Fluoridated water is needed here. . . . if we had fluoride in the water, it would save not only children, but adults and […]
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Galloway New Jersey to Return to Fluoride Free Water
GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP — Atlantic City’s award-winning water isn’t clean enough for Galloway Township resident Robert R. Reyers. It’s not the water itself Reyers doesn’t like. After all, the city’s tap water earned honors last month in the Berkeley Springs International Water Tasting Awards, held in Berkeley Springs, W.Va., and has won three gold medals in […]
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Pequannock New Jersey votes against fluoridation
Voters narrowly defeated a non-binding ballot question that asked if they favored putting teeth-protecting fluoride into the municipal water system. The all-Republican Township Council now has the final say in the matter and will use the defeat, by a vote of 2,858 to 2,607, as a guide to public sentiment. Three years ago, a panel […]
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