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Gloucester: Fluoride issue gets airing Monday night
Gloucester’s mayoral hopefuls and candidates for other offices have been busy discussing the city’s issues in a series of campaign debates, and more are on the schedule in the remaining 2 1/2 weeks before the Nov. 3 election. But the city’s lone ballot question will be in the spotlight when the Gloucester Board of Health […]
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Making Sense of Medicine: The great fluoride debate
One might paraphrase Hamlet and say, “To fluoridate or not to fluoridate, that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of chemical poisons, or to take arms against a sea of bad science, and, by opposing, end them?” Fluoride pollution is one of the most misunderstood controversies […]
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History column: Wellesley’s great fluoridation debate
“Don’t confuse us with that scientific mumbo jumbo. We know the truth.” For the proponents of fluoridation — that is, the addition of a small dose of fluoride to the public water supply in order to improve dental health — these words reflected their view of the opposition. On the flipside, the anti-fluoridationists couldn’t fathom […]
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Wenham Board of Health to examine fluoridation policy
Following a brief discussion at their June 17 meeting, the Wenham Board of Health plans to investigate the practice of fluoridating the town’s water supply. Although the final decision on fluoride would ultimately rest with Wenham’s voters, board members said they want to be up to date about fluoridate alongside the pros and cons of […]
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Cambridge: Vote means lower ‘target level’ of fluoride for city drinking water starts in September
Fluoride levels in city drinking water will be lower starting in September as a result of action Monday by the committee that advises the city Health Department. The panel voted to recommend reducing the “target level” for the cavity-fighting chemical to a single standard of 0.7 parts per million from a range of 0.7 parts […]
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Rockport to add less fluoride to drinking water
Board of Health Chairman Dr. Sydney Wedmore and board colleague Dr. Sydney Jimenez said a recent report from the U.S. Department of Public Health recommended towns lower the level of fluoride to an optimal level of 0.7 parts per million. “It’s 1.0 part per million now,” Wedmore said “The board voted last month to implement […]
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Salem & Westborough: Pro-Fluoridation Interactive Speaker Training, June 23 & 24
Registration Links: Salem – Westborough See original link for more information Note from Fluoride Action Network: Salter Mitchell, the affiliation of Peter Mitchell (one of the “Expert Trainers”), is a PR firm that promotes itself with Change Behavior and Change Public Opinion. Print PDF
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Cambridge: Fluoride levels in city water should drop, health officials say on way to delayed vote
Health officials are urging less cavity-fighting fluoride in city water, in line with new federal recommendations. The advisory body of the city’s Public Health Department, which has authority to order the change, put off a vote Wednesday because only one voting member showed up, not enough for a decision. Claude Alix-Jacob, chief public health officer, […]
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Shrewsbury town meeting says keep fluoride in the water
SHREWSBURY – An article that would have discontinued the 62-year practice of fluoridating the local water supply was soundly defeated by town meeting Wednesday night. Bryan Moss, who petitioned the article, said the Food and Drug Administration has never approved fluoride for ingestion. Ingestion of the chemical, he said, is linked to hyper-thyroidism, low IQ […]
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Rockport Votes to Keep Fluoride
ROCKPORT — The voters have spoken: Rockport will continue adding fluoride to the town water supply. The oft-contentious debate, which ran the gamut from dueling letters on the editorial pages of the Gloucester Daily Times to personal faceoffs over the scientific benefits or dangers of adding the compound to the public’s water, was settled Tuesday […]
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