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Lafayette discontinues fluoridation program
More than 170 million Americans, or 67 percent of the United States population served by public water supplies, drink water with optimal fluoride levels for preventing tooth decay, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Customers of the City of Lafayette’s water system, however, are no longer among them. According to Mayor Bill […]
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Juneau: Fluoride commission split over city water
The Juneau Assembly likely will get a split recommendation regarding the continued use of fluoride in city water, said Juneau Fluoride Study Commission Chairman Bart Rozelle. “We are not of one mind whether we are in favor of continuing fluoridation or not,” Rozelle said of the commission. “We are meeting the 24th of May to […]
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3000 bare teeth against fluoride
ANTI-fluoride lobbyists in Wodonga say they now have 3000 reasons why the city’s water supply shouldn’t be fluoridated. Wodonga’s Fluoride Education Awareness Team’s Marilyn Edgar says they have more than that number of signatures on a petition and hundreds of individual submissions opposing the plans. The group has manned a table in High St from […]
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Acid leak forces residents to leave
Dozens of people in Wynnewood were evacuated Saturday after an acid leak at the Gary-Williams Co. refinery sent potentially dangerous fumes floating through the air north of the plant, Garvin County Undersheriff Steven Brooks said. Residents of about 45 homes were to be kept from their homes overnight, Brooks said. Red Cross officials were helping […]
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The risk of fluoride is outweighed by the benefit
In the late 1990s, New Bedford’s anti-poverty agency, PACE, found that the single most important form of health care that many poor people in our community wanted and needed was dental care. At that time, PACE found that of the 88 dentists practicing in the New Bedford area only two were accepting patients who had […]
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Wangaratta wants vote on fluoride
WANGARATTA has delivered a clear message to the state government that it does not approve of fluoride being added to its town water supply without a referendum. More than 100 members of the public packed into the GOTAFE auditorium on Tuesday night in a fiery showdown with the Victorian director of public health, Dr Robert […]
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Bellows Falls will continue to fluoridate water
BELLOWS FALLS, Vt. –Village voters decided by a wide margin to continue adding fluoride to the public water supply. The vote came at a village meeting on Monday. At a series of hearings, some residents challenged the long-held assumption that fluoride was a safe way to reduce tooth decay. They claimed that new research showed […]
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The evidence that fluoride is harmful is overwhelming
Dr. Limeback was one of the 12 scientists who served on the National Academy of Sciences panel that issued the 2006 report, “Fluoride in Drinking Water: A Scientific Review of the EPA’s Standards.” Dr. Limeback is an associate professor of dentistry and head of the preventive dentistry program at the University of Toronto. ### The […]
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Hamilton votes to stay with fluoride
Hamilton residents have voted to stick with the status quo, keeping fluoride in the water supply and retaining first past the post (FPP) as the preferred electoral system. The results were released on Saturday afternoon and are binding on the city council. More than 33,500 people, or 38 per cent of eligible voters, returned their […]
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Fluoride leaves vet with a bitter taste
VIETNAM veteran Rob Doherty has taken more notice than most with talk of having fluoride in Geelong’s water supply appearing again after the topic seemed long dead. One of the options recently outlined by Water Minister John Thwaites to ensure Geelong has enough water to meet future needs is to tap into Melbourne’s water supply. […]
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