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Water fluoridation in Somers, part of Yorktown to end temporarily
Starting Friday, water supplied to residents of Somers and part of Yorktown will no longer have fluoride added to it, the Northern Westchester Joint Waterworks announced. That’s expected to last for much of this year, while the Amawalk water treatment plant, on Route 35 in Yorktown, undergoes modifications and the Catskills treatment plant gets a new system for putting fluoride […]
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After 72 years of Fluoridation, Uncertainty Persists
While pushing through a country-wide fluoridation mandate last year, Israel’s policy-makers and public health officials ignored or denied valid evidence, produced by experts in their fields and respected science groups, showing that fluoridation science has not been settled according to researchers in the Journal of Risk Research, August 2016. The same is true of US […]
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Opinion: Fluoridation of NYC Water Useless, Harmful to the Poor
Coming on the heels of evidence showing that fluoridation is useless and more harmful to the poor, more researchers report that fluoridation’s tooth decay reduction still is not scientifically proven. Sicca, et al. analyzed thirty systematic reviews on tooth decay prevention, from 2002 – 2015, and report “there is not sufficient evidence to determine whether the use […]
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Yorktown Receives Grant to Study Town-Operated Fluoride System
A $19,444 grant was awarded to Yorktown by the state Department of Health to see whether it is feasible to build a town-operated fluoride system for water supplied by the Catskill Aqueduct. Currently, the Amawalk Water Treatment Plant fluoridates its water on-site. That facility supplies water to eastern Yorktown and Somers. Residents on the west […]
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Flash those pearly whites: Dental program in Jefferson expanding to surrounding counties
A dental program begun by the Jefferson County Public Health Service has been so successful that it will be implemented in Lewis, Oswego and St. Lawrence counties as well. Keep the North Country Smiling is a pilot program started in March 2014. Its purpose is to provide more fluoride varnishing for children through primary care, […]
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Maloney Pushes for Federal Research into Health Impact of PFOS Contamination in Newburgh Drinking Water
Introduces Two Bills to Respond to Water Crisis in Newburgh, Nationwide Newburgh, NY – Weeks after announcing the launch of a biomonitoring program to test Newburgh residents for the contaminant perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS), which was found in the Newburgh water supply, Representative Sean Patrick Maloney announced the introduction of two bills to improve and expand […]
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Watertown accepts NYS fluoridation grant money for upgrade
The following is from the City of Watertown, New York, Agenda, October 3, 2016 September 26, 2016 To: The Honorable Mayor and City Council From Sharon Addison, City Manager Subject: Authorizing New York State Master Contract Grant, Drinking Water Fluoridation Project On September 19, 2016, City Council directed Staff to proceed on the New York […]
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Jefferson County pilot dental program to expand to three adjacent counties
“Keep the North Country Smiling” is expanding its efforts to treat and prevent dental diseases in young children and low-income families regionally. “Keep the North Country Smiling” began in March of 2014 as a pilot program in Jefferson County with four objectives: provide more fluoride varnishing for children through primary care, increase tooth brushing in […]
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Fluoride face-off in Cortland
Experts dueled about the chemical’s merit CORTLAND – The pro-fluoride guy drank water from a gallon jug. It was fluoridated to 0.7 parts per million. The anti-fluoride guy drank spring water from West Seneca. It has naturally occurring fluoride at 0.22 parts per million. About the only thing they agreed on was that water is […]
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Mr Fluoride (Get the F out of our water) Battle Hymn
Leslie Thresher of the New York City Coalition Against Artificial Fluoridation first sang this song as her testimony at a public hearing on NY Medicaid on May 4, 2016. She has now transformed it into this creative production. Print PDF
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