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Methven: Dental surgeon blasts fluoride call
The Methven Community Board was branded as “absolutely gutless” by Ashburton dental surgeon Justin Wall when Methven anti-fluoride campaigners won the right to a referendum yesterday. The campaigners finally had their day in the sun, successfully getting the town’s board behind a referendum. Campaigners Margaret and Philip Johnson have been protesting against fluoride in the […]
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Dryden voters soundly reject fluoridation
FLUORIDE ACTION NETWORK FAN Bulletin 953: A HUGE victory in Dryden, Ontario April 15, 2008 Yesterday the citizens of Dryden delivered a huge rejection to the notion of restarting fluoridation in their town. A massive majority said NO – 1902 versus 292. That’s 87% to 13%. This is an embarrassing defeat for Canada’s chief dental […]
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Testimony of Mike Ewall on Resolution #080288
Testimony of Mike Ewall Director of ActionPA before Philadelphia City Council Committee on Public Health & Human Services Public Hearing Concerning the Safety of the City’s Drinking Water Resolution #080288 April 14th, 2008 Hi, my name is Mike Ewall and I’m the Founder and Director of ActionPA, a statewide environmental group based here in Philadelphia. […]
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Commentary: Endorsements no substitute for science
I would like to respond to dentists Margaret Hebl and Jeffrey Kraig (The Reporter, March 10) who provided your readers with assurances about water fluoridation, despite the growing body of evidence that indicates that it is neither safe nor effective. They state that “small amounts” of fluoride “are present naturally in almost all water supplies.” […]
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Health experts support adding fluoride to water
NOTE FROM FAN: The South Heartland District Health Department services Adams, Clay, Nuckolls and Webster Counties. ____________________________________________________________________________________ With the Nebraska Legislature now ready to give final approval to a bill that would require all communities with more than 1,000 people to fluoridate their water, questions about the use and safety of this naturally occurring mineral […]
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Clear Danger. How a toxin was legally introduced into Columbia’s drinking water.
NOTE FROM FAN: This is an in-depth special investigative report in pdf format that was introduced on a dramatic front cover with: How Safe is the Fluoride in Your Drinking Water? Available at http://www.fluoridealert.org/so.carolina.4-9-08.pdf The first two paragraphs of the report: The year was 1965 when Columbia city council voted unanimously to add one part […]
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Indian villagers crippled by fluoride
This is a story of a land where excess fluoride has turned the ground water into a slow poison, crippling at least 10,000 people and leaving hundreds of thousand of others in constant misery. This is the story of Nalgonda, one of the poorest and most drought-prone districts of Andhra Pradesh in southern India. The […]
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Fluoride and Arsenic Poisoning Grips Assam
Guwahati (ABC Live): The ground water quality in Assam is deteriorating day by days due to mining activities in state. Guwahati (ABC Live): The ground water quality in Assam is deteriorating day by days due to mining activities in state. In recent nearly 58000 water samples from different water sources were colleted to test the […]
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Belleville: Health board wary of water request
A plea to pull fluoride from municipal water sources was met with quiet caution from public health board officials Wednesday. Picton resident Pablo Wille made his argument to health board members at their monthly meeting, Wednesday. “We put it in the water hoping it will fix the teeth,” he said. “It doesn’t. It is time […]
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Local activists stymied in requests for fluoridation data
What started as a local debate of relative benefits for public health versus views of governmental interference in private lives has escalated into a confrontation between local citizens’ groups and Los Angeles County health policy, with county board Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky running interference. Last fall, the Metropolitan Water District began treating locally delivered water with […]
United States, California