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Dexter unlikely to add fluoridation system to water supply
The village of Dexter apparently won’t be adding fluoride to its municipal water supply. A memo recommending against it from Village Manager Donna Dettling was accepted without comment Monday night by the village council. The memo accompanied a report from consulting firm Orchard, Hiltz and McCliment, which had been hired to investigate the costs of […]
United States, Michigan -
Canadian doctors spurn hazardous fluoridation of water
The Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE) does not support fluoridation of drinking water for the following reasons. 1) The decline in caries in communities that are fluoridated has been highly significant — but so has the decline that has occurred in non-fluoridated communities. There has, in fact, been a general decline in […]
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Fluoride debate getting long in tooth
The thorny debate over fluoride isn’t likely to be settled for at least a year, says the chair of the board that runs the local water system. Sarnia city councillor Terry Burrell, who also serves as Lambton Area Water Supply System (LAWSS) chair, said he doesn’t expect the debate will end before a report into […]
Canada, Ontario -
Pollution rulings defy all logic
We Texans like to pride ourselves on being a commonsensical kind of folk, neither impressed nor fooled by fancy suits, jargon or schemes. This is why I was so baffled a few weeks ago by the argument a Cincinnati-based insurer used in federal court to avoid a potential $25 million liability in a 2007 office […]
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There’s something in the water
A bill mandating fluoride in Louisiana water systems passed fairly easily in 2008. But that doesn’t mean no one was against the idea. “This one snuck up on us,” says Marylee Orr, executive director of the Louisiana Environmental Action Network, even though LEAN has three people who watch the Legislature. “It may be time to […]
United States, Louisiana -
Fluoride is waste of money, says Morris
Ann Morris describes water fluoridation as “an appalling waste of public money”. A fierce opponent of the introduction to the local water supply when she was a member of the Maryborough council, Ms Morris (pictured) was initially in favour of fluoridation. “I was very pro-fluoride and when the Maryborough City Council was investigating whether to […]
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ACE: Fluoride in public water is unnecessary and not safe
It’s perplexing and even shameful that the American Dental Association is refusing to look at the overwhelming evidence showing fluoridation of public water is ineffective, unnecessary, and not safe. ACE commends the Pottstown Water Authority members who looked at reality, rejected dental association spin, and opposed fluoridation of Pottstown’s water. In 2007, ACE did extensive […]
United States, Pennsylvania -
El Dorado might fluoridate drinking water
The city of El Dorado, AR is trying to decide whether to fluoridate its drinking water. The city council approved the move in 2005 but the city has yet to carry it out. City council members say that after the ordinance was approved, the costs to fluoridate the water system came in higher than expected […]
United States, Arkansas -
Timberville: Fluoride Vote ‘In Limbo’
Town Council had wanted residents to decide whether Timberville would continue fluoridating its water, but a legal roadblock has the measure in limbo. Following a couple of months of impassioned debate, council voted 4-2 in October to put the issue before residents this year as a referendum. However, at the November meeting, Town Attorney Mark […]
United States, Virginia -
Fluoride boosts dental health
Fluoridation in our water system was recently challenged at a City Council meeting. The Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Branch, provides a large variety of public health services and is acutely aware of the needs facing our community as it relates to oral health in both children and adults. Without reservation, we […]
United States, California