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Saipan Ice touts fluoridated water
Saipan Ice and Water Inc. is working with dentists on the island to promote dental health care by distributing fluoridated water. The only difference between regular water and fluoridated water is that fluoride is added. There is no difference in taste at all, according to Saipan Ice. Eileen Olopai-Pellegrino, president of Saipan Ice, said she […]
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Fluoride debate was a ‘fizzer’
After the lengthy and at times heated debate in the months leading up to crunch time in Lithgow Council’s decision to fluoridate the water supply, when the final debate came it was all very much a non event. When it came to the vote the opponents both in the gallery and around the Council table […]
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Fluoride experts go head to head in debate
EXPERTS went head-to-head as some 120 people packed into the Promenade Methodist Church, on Loch Promenade, Douglas, to hear the arguments for and against fluoridation. The case for each side was presented respectively by Professor Michael Lennon, chairman of the British Fluoridation Society, and Dr Paul Connett, professor emeritus of chemistry at St Lawrence University […]
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Government fluoridation scheme is unethical
THE New Year will see the end of the Department of Health and Social Security’s ‘objective, year-long information awareness campaign’ about the proposal to introduce fluoride into the public water supply. 2008 will see the consultation phase before the Health Minister. Eddie Teare MHK will discuss with his Council of Ministers colleagues whether to support […]
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Critics raise red flag over fluoride in tap water
Nearly a half-century after water fluoridation became widespread, a small but growing number of medical officials and environmentalists are again raising concerns over the practice. Recent research is suggesting that fluoride may be connected to a number of serious conditions, including the development in teenage boys of osteosarcoma, the rare bone cancer that killed Canadian […]
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Upper House passes fluoridation vote bill
Geelong is closer to having a vote on fluoridation after Victoria Upper House MPs passed a bill on Wednesday night calling for regional referendums before adding fluoride to water supplies. Upper House members voted 21 to 19 in favour of the Democratic Labor Party bill. The bill will now go to the Lower House for […]
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Lithgow Council to adopt fluoridation
After decades of debate the Lithgow Local Government area is to get a fluoridated water supply. Council at this week’s monthly meeting voted by a 5-3 majority to adopt fluoridation, rejecting a concerted campaign by anti fluoride lobbyists from Australia and overseas. With the decision Lithgow Council is to join the considerable majority of Councils […]
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Rebuff for doctors on fluoride query
AN anti-fluoride petition signed by 21 south-west doctors has angered a State Government spokesman and sparked a speedy response from the state’s chief health officer. The Standard reported on Monday the petition had been mailed to Department of Human Services chief health officer John Carnie. The doctors argued in the letter it was “imprudent” to […]
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Fluoridation begins in Malibu on November 26
Waterworks District No. 29 will introduce fluoride on Monday to its water treatment plant that supplies a predominate portion of the Malibu district. According to the County of Los Angeles Department of Public Works, the district purchases water from the West Basin Municipal Water District, which in turn gets water from the Metropolitan Water District. […]
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HEALTH (FLUORIDATION) AMENDMENT BILL: Comments by DLP Member Peter Kavanagh
Parliament of Victoria LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL [Pages 78-81] Mr KAVANAGH (Western Victoria) – I would like to explain in some detail why I believe that it is wrong, regardless of the opinions of affected people, to fluoridate new areas of Victoria and therefore why all members should vote for the Health Fluoridation (Amendment) Bill. I will […]
Australia