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Opposition grows against Horsham water fluoridation plan
The Country Alliance is opposing a Victorian Government decision to fluoridate Horsham’s water. The alliance is backing the Nationals’ opposition to introducing fluoride to regional water supplies without community consultation. Fluoridation began at Robinvale a fortnight ago, despite vocal opposition from some residents. The Country Alliance spokeswoman Fiona Hilton-Wood says regional Victorians should not be […]
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BF residents get conflicting reports on fluoride
BELLOWS FALLS — Bob Carton, an environmental scientist who has done work for the federal Environmental Protection Agency, stood in front of a small crowd at Town Hall, Wednesday, and said that a recent report on fluoride in water showed conclusively that the chemical poses serious health risks. A few minutes later, Alida Lund of […]
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Fluoride: should we swallow it?
The new Sustainable Water Strategy document recommends a Melbourne-Geelong pipeline as a longer term supply strategy. Minister Thwaites confirmed this and possible fluoridation for Geelong in the Advertiser (20/4). The DSE document though, and Jim Cousins’ discussion of it (Advertiser 5/5) were deafening in their silence on fluoridation, the chief obstacle to the interconnection. The […]
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Fluoride risk fear
A STUDY that links fluoridated drinking water with a rare bone cancer in boys has further fuelled the anti-fluoride debate. The Gippsland Safe Water Alliance (GSWA) says the study is evidence that fluoridation is dangerous. GSWA spokesperson Shane Elson said the study by Harvard University scientists should at least raise a red flag and stop […]
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Adding fluoride to water may pose health risks
Scary news travels fast. Within weeks after the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences released a study citing adverse health effects of fluoride in water supplies, the Hightstown Board of Health introduced a draft recommendation to the Borough Council supporting a ban on water fluoridation. Dylan Ross, an alternate Board of Health […]
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NA fluoride lawsuit filed
NORTH ATTLEBORO – The department of public works was served this week with the board of health’s lawsuit to stop fluoridation of the town’s public water supply. The board of health had filed a lawsuit in Bristol County Superior Court asking a judge to determine whether it has the authority to end fluoridation. A majority […]
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Kiddie H2O — fluoridated, but bottled
Bottled water-toting parents face a dilemma. They want to fill sippie cups with the same filtered or spring water that they drink. However, they also may want kids to get the fluoride in tap water. So what’s the answer? Nestlé is the latest bottled water company to come out with a product to fill that […]
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Corning board will discuss water fluoridation
Corning | To fluoridate city drinking water or not. The topic has been considered by city leaders since the 1950s, but aldermen have never voted on the issue, said Mayor Frank P. Coccho. Water fluoridation is the act of adding fluoride ions to drinking water in order to reduce tooth decay. The city Board of […]
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Board of health won’t push for fluoride in water
A prominent dentist and Department of Health staff said Thursday adding fluoride to drinking water will help reduce cavities among Dutchess County’s poor children, but the Dutchess County Board of Health balked at promoting the fluoridation of public water supplies. Federal health agencies call fluoridation one of the most important public health achievements of the […]
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Six districts in Bihar have excess fluoride in drinking water
Patna, Apr 19: Alarmed over the presence of excess fluoride in drinking water in six districts of Bihar, the state government has decided to chalk out an action plan for fluoride mitigation. Speaking at a workshop on “effects of excess fluoride in drinking water and the mitigation measures” jointly organised by Public Health and Engineering […]
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