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Helix board OKs treatment of water
LA MESA — Helix Water District began fluoridating its water 17 months ago because it had to. This week, the district’s board decided to spend $155,000 annually to continue the process. The Helix Water District board voted unanimously Wednesday in favor of fluoridation after hearing from supporters who say the process reduces dental cavities and […]
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Society urges FNDC [Far North District Council] to continue fluoridation
Children in the far north districts of Kaitaia and Kaikohe are facing an increased risk of tooth decay following the recent removal of fluoride from the districts’ reticulated water supplies says the New Zealand School and Community Oral Health Services Society (the Society). The Far North District Council resolved to remove fluoride from its water […]
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Nothing Like a Guiness Beer with a Fluoride Chaser
GUINNESS gives you a good pint and fluoride, much to the annoyance of a Dublin nun spearheading an anti-fluoride campaign. Guinness Ireland has disclosed that Dublin stout can have as much as six times the fluoride level of stout brewed in London. The reason: the Park Royal Brewery in London uses unfluoridated water in a […]
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Torrington: Fluoride proposal stalled indefinitely
It’s been more than a year since the Torrington City Council voted to consider putting a fluoride supplement into the city’s water – an issue that sparked quite a bit of local controversy. The subject has been sitting on the back burner since then, Mayor Leroy Schafer said Thursday, and for a lot of reasons. […]
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State Supreme Court to take up Port Angeles fluoride petitions
(Olympia) — The state’s highest court will review an effort to get fluoride out of the city of Port Angeles water supply. The state Supreme Court agreed last week to review the case of two intiatives that sought to stop the city from adding fluoride to the water. Local environmental group “Protect the Peninsula’s Future” […]
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Helix Water District says fluoridation to continue
LA MESA: The Helix Water District board voted yesterday to continue fluoridating the district’s water after it ran out of grant money to pay for the process. Helix began fluoridating its water in December 2007, at the same time that the Metropolitan Water District began fluoridating the treated water it supplies to San Diego County. […]
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DeLand cancels fluoride, then adds it back
A contingent of dentists and public-health professionals has convinced the DeLand City Commission it wasn’t a good idea to save money by canceling fluoridation of city water. Two months ago, to balance the water-department budget, DeLand officials stopped adding fluoride to city water. They stopped buying the chemical, and didn’t replace the laboratory technician who […]
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Hamilton brings fluoride debate to library
An ongoing and heated debate over the benefits and harmful effects of fluoridating public water came to Hamilton April 28. To present both sides of the discussion, the village brought Paul Connett, a retired chemistry professor and anti-fluoridation advocate, and Jayanth Kumar, director of oral health surveillance and research at the Bureau of Dental Health […]
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Fluoride trials on hold
PUBLIC water supplies in Kaitaia and Kaikohe could be unfluoridated for up to a year, while the Far North District Council awaits the results of a two-year fluoridation trial aimed at reducing tooth decay. Councillors have deferred a Northland District Health Board request to extend the trial, which ended on March 31, until the council […]
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PFOA contaminated sludge spread in Lawrence County
The first time most people in Lawrence County became aware of biosolids being spread on county fields was last summer when residents in the Mount Hope area complained. Biosolids are by products of human waste and come from sludge in waste water (sewer) treatment plants. People in Mount Hope were upset about the smell and […]
United States, Alabama Perfluorinated chemicals