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Cost could send fluoride down drain
SCHENECTADY — A California megalopolis’ decision to add fluoride to its water supply is having an impact on several Capital Region communities, including Schenectady, which is considering dropping the additive due to rising prices. The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, which serves approximately 18 million people in the San Diego and Los Angeles metropolitan […]
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Fluoride, teeth, and an argument that’s full of holes
You’ll find fluoride in tea, beer and fish, which might sound like a balanced diet to you. But this week Alan Johnson announced a new push for putting it in our drinking water, with some very grand promises – and in the face of serious opposition. General Jack D Ripper developed his theories about environmental […]
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Does flouride in toothpaste give kids bad teeth?
This week, Alan Johnson, the Health Secretary, called for fluoride to be added to more areas of England’s water supply, to prevent dental decay. In passing, he acknowledged that, for all the benefits of fluoride, too much can lead to a permanent discolouring of the teeth, called dental fluorosis. But only, he said, when children […]
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Officials considering removal of fluoride from Schenectady water
SCHENECTADY — For decades, the city has spent thousands to add fluoride to the drinking water in hopes of protecting residents’ teeth. But as the price for the chemical rises and more municipalities question fluoride’s effectiveness, city officials are wondering whether it’s really worth the cost. “If it isn’t that much of a benefit, we’re […]
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Cries against fluoride fall on deaf ears
While a group of citizens who staged a protest Thursday against South Blount County Utility District’s recent decision to begin water fluoridation had their voices heard, it’s apparently not going to change anything. The utility’s board of directors, at the request of Blount County Mayor Jerry Cunningham, voted Jan. 2 to begin fluoridation of the […]
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Anger over water plans
ANTI-FLUORIDATION campaigners have hit out at government plans to flood the county’s water supplies with added fluoride. Cumbrians against Fluoridation has campaigned for the last eight years against what it claims is the use of an untested, unresearched chemical in the area’s drinking water. West Cumbria is one of around 30 areas to have fluoride […]
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Fluoride claims misleading, unscientific, it’s safe
By • JOHN CARNIE, Chief Health Officer, Department of Human Services • MARK KENNEDY, GP Association of Geelong • MICHAEL SMITH, Director of Dentistry, Barwon Health DISCUSSION and debate about issues like water fluoridation is important but it is also important that information presented to the community is factual and supported by scientific and medical […]
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Littleton: Fluoride question may be on May ballot
Littleton – Whatever Littleton residents do to take care of their and their children’s oral health, they should keep it up. That’s the message from the Nashoba Boards of Health, an agency that monitors public health in towns in the area. Despite no fluoride in its public water supply, studies show that the town stacks […]
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Newly elected mayor of Corning wants to suspend fluoridation spending
The Mayor of Corning wants to stop moving forward with the project to fluoridate the city’s drinking water. Mayor Tom Reed says he wants to put a hold on the project until November when voters will get to decide if they want fluoride in their tap water. In September a Corning man got enough signatures […]
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Doctors’ leaders step up Wales fluoride campaign
DOCTORS’ leaders in Wales yesterday stepped up a campaign for fluoride to be added to water supplies to combat tooth decay. It followed a call by Westminster health secretary Alan Johnson for fluoride to be added to more water supplies in England. Welsh secretary of the British Medical Association Dr Richard Lewis said the doctors’ […]
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