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Fort Collins Water Board: “Many Concerns” about Fluoridation
Reporting of the Fort Collins Water Board’s vote to recommend doing away with fluoride in the city’s water supply (April 25) may have left the impression that some of us were recommending this to save money. The dollar cost to continue fluoridation was a very minor concern compared with a number of other considerations: While […]
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Commentary on Fort Collins Fluoride Issue
When the Water Board recommended the city stop fluoridating the water, the city manager denigrated them and called for public input. However, public input opposed fluoridation. Only the dental industry spoke in favor of fluoridating with an industrial waste from Cargill pollution scrubbers. More than 60 health-care providers signed a petition to stop fluoridation because […]
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Fort Collins council poised to decide fate of city water
Fluoride. Merely utter the word in Fort Collins these days and you might get an earful. Residents of the city seem staunchly divided on whether to continue adding the oft-championed cavity-fighter to drinking water. It is an issue that many have sunk their proverbial teeth into. And it is drawing near a possible end. The […]
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Fort Collins fluoride debate could be silenced
Members of the public have been waiting two years to tell the Fort Collins City Council what they think of fluoridating city water. But the council seems to be drawing further away from a vote on fluoridation, and as it does, residents’ chances to publicly speak out on the issue are growing more doubtful. After […]
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Fort Collins fluoridation debate continues
Members of the City Council are leaning toward keeping fluoride in Fort Collins water but indicated at a meeting Tuesday night that the amount of the cavity-fighting substance might need to be adjusted to a less-intense level. The seven-member council met in a study session to hear the recommendations of three boards and the council-appointed […]
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Community will not be well-served by fluoride
The Coloradoan has sunk to a new low when reporting on fluoridation. After calling those who want clean water “anti-fluoride crusaders,” the Coloradoan (April 25) reported that two “boards” support fluoridation. One of those “boards” is a board of directors of a “special district.” The Water Board is the only board appointed by City Council […]
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Fort Collins Health Board: Fluoride OK
The Larimer County Board of Health “strongly” recommended Fort Collins continue fluoridating its tap water in the latest installment of a two-year debate marked by anxieties over public health. The board’s five-page consensus findings released Thursday now go to the City Council, which could remove the liquid form of fluoride known as hydrofluorosilicic acid, or […]
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Sides take issue over conclusions of Fort Collins fluoride report
Is it safe? That is the question that has been posed to the tens of thousands of Fort Collins area residents who drink tap water treated with fluoride. While advocates of placing the cavity-fighting substance in the city’s water supply say it promotes dental health, especially for residents who have trouble affording dental care, opponents […]
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Fort Collins Report: Fluoridation safe, effective
Fort Collins’ fluoride technical study group issued its long-awaited report Wednesday, finding that fluoridating the city’s water supply provides cost-effective dental benefits and poses little public health risk. “The report’s conclusion is this is still a proper health protocol to deliver fluoride in drinking water,” said Frank Vertucci, a study group member and vice president […]
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Report to outline benefits, downfalls of fluoride in water
The fluoride technical study group is expected today to put the final touches on its long-awaited report on the pros and cons of the continued fluoridation of Fort Collins’ drinking water supply. “All the research has been done, and the ideas are down,” said Patty Bigner, spokeswoman for the Fort Collins Utilities Department. “They’re not […]
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