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Nebraska: Fluoride could go on ballot throughout area
CENTRAL NEBRASKA — Grand Island’s not the only one. Towns throughout Central Nebraska are leaving it up to voters to decide whether to opt out of the Legislature’s new mandate to fluoridate all water in municipalities with 1,000 or more people. Officials in Hastings, Shelton and York voted this month to place the issue on […]
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D-day nears on flouride debate
THE debate on fluoridation is heating up, and as Warrington Primary Care Trust nears decision time, the voice of the opposition is getting increasingly loud. Friends of the Earth, along with health groups ranging from The US Kidney Foundation to thyroid specialists, are gearing up to fight plans to add fluoride to the water supply. […]
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Southampton: improve teeth by topping up levels of fluoride in water
Southampton City Primary Care Trust (PCT) have just received news that one of the biggest port cities in the United States, San Diego, has decided to tackle tooth decay by topping up the natural fluoride content in the water supplied to most of its 1.2 million citizens. Both Southampton and San Diego have been largely […]
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Southampton: US city mirrors Hampshire’s fluoride debate
AS the fluoride debate continues to rage in Southampton, a similar discussion is taking place across the pond. Health chiefs in San Diego, one of America’s biggest port cities, are also pushing ahead with plans to fluoridate their tap water. Southampton’s water supplies could be fluoridated by the end of the year if a public […]
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Hastings: Local group petitions for ‘Safe Water’
A citizens group in Hastings is now circulating a petition to ensure that if fluoride is put in the city’s water that the compound is safe for humans. Marvin “Butch” Hughes, local chapter organizer of Nebraskans for Safe Water, is leader of the petition drive that started after the Hastings City Council voted to put […]
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Antitrust: Commission fines aluminium fluoride producers € 4.97 million for price fixing cartel
The European Commission has imposed fines of €4 970 000 on aluminium fluoride producers for colluding to fix prices in violation of the ban on cartels and restrictive business practices in the EC Treaty (Article 81) and the EEA Agreement (Article 53). Aluminium fluoride is a chemical used to lower the smelting temperature of aluminium. […]
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Water district manager: Ads are prelude to mandatory fluoridation attempt
EUREKA SPRINGS — Alarmed by the appearance of a half-page ad promoting water fluoridation in the June 19 Lovely County Citizen (the ad also appeared in this newspaper June 20), Carroll-Boone Water District (CBWD) Office Manager Jim Allison contacted this newspaper Friday to inquire about whether it was a paid ad and its source. The […]
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Southampton blazes a trail in fluoride consultation
Southampton will be the first area in the UK to seek the public’s views on adding flouride to their tap water since Health Minister Alan Johnson’s ‘fluoridation for all’ proposal in February. Health chiefs in the city are to begin consultation next month. The move is in light of high levels of tooth decay there […]
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Hastings voters to decide on fluoride issue
For the first time since the 1970s, Hastings voters will decide if fluoride should be added to the city’s water supply. On Monday, the Hastings City Council unanimously approved putting the issue of fluoridation on the Nov. 4 election ballot, rather than leaving that up to petition circulators. In April, the Nebraska Legislature passed LB245, […]
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Towns question fluoride use
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.-The great American assault on tooth decay began here 63 years ago, earning Grand Rapids a special place in the annals of dental history: the first city in the world to fluoridate its public water system. So it is more than a little head-scratching that fluoride, the chemical widely credited with dramatically cutting […]
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