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Fluoride controversy in Homer
Roy Crandall refuses to drink water with fluoride in it. “I said at one time anyone that bought bottled water was crazy because the Homer water was good, but then I started reading about fluoride and decided I didn’t want any part of the fluoride,” he said. The Homer trustee wants the village to stop […]
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Firm fined after acid river leak
A chemical plant has been ordered to pay £16,000 in fines and costs after acid leaked into a river. The court heard vegetation turned black and fish died in the leak at Kingsweston Rhine and a pond near the Rhodia Organique plant in Avonmouth. The firm pleading guilty to causing poisonous or polluting matter to […]
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Albany threatened again with fluoridation plan
Dr. Joseph Hart’s bookshelf has a section dedicated to fluoride. Since dental school in the late 1960s, the town of Bethlehem dentist has saved everything from comic strips on fluoridation to the letters he’s sent off to officials in Albany and his own town asking them to please add fluoride to the public water supply. […]
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Bellows Falls fluoride debate in voter’s hands
BELLOWS FALLS — It will be up to voters to decide next year if the village should continue its 30-year practice of fluoridating its water after some local officials raised concerns over its alleged health implications. Bellows Falls Village President Charles Jarras said Thursday that an Australian ballot question before village voters at the annual […]
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EPA Unions Call on Agency, Congress To Recognize Carcinogenicity of Fluoride
Unions representing Environmental Protection Agency employees and other public health professionals have asked Congress to impose a nationwide moratorium on drinking water flouridation programs and called on EPA to set a goal of reducing the amount of fluoride in drinking water based on evidence it is associated with cancer. The request, set forth in letters […]
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Fluoride in Milk Plan is “Knee Jerk Reaction”
SCHOOL milk with added fluoride is to be introduced for the first time in Doncaster – under a controversial project to halt tooth decay in children. Parents of pupils at Belle Vue’s St Peter’s Roman Catholic Primary School are expected to be able to sign up for their youngsters to be given daily fluoridated milk […]
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EPA unions call for moratorium on fluoride in drinking water
WASHINGTON –Eleven unions representing more than 7,000 workers at the Environmental Protection Agency are calling for a national moratorium on programs to add fluoride to drinking water, citing what they call a possible cancer risk. In a letter to EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson, the unions say the agency should act even before a committee of […]
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Forum offers both sides of fluoride issue
Bellingham’s City Club hosted the first public forum Wednesday featuring representatives from both sides of Bellingham’s contentious water fluoridation debate. Leaders of Bellingham Families for Fluoride and Citizens Against Forced Fluoride shared the podium for a 45-minute discussion and question-and-answer period moderated by Gerald Pumphrey, Bellingham Technical College president. Both sides hit key points they’ve […]
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Fluoride is back in city water
Fluoride is again being injected into the city of Goldsboro’s water, after city officials received a letter of reassurance from the state health director. Fluoride injections stopped in June after concerns were raised by studies that indicated possible problems with possible lead contamination when fluoride interacted with chloramines in the water. But those concerns were […]
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Fluoride opponents’ argument gains teeth
Albert Burgstahler is convinced Lawrence residents have been forced to swallow a giant government mistake for more than 50 years. “Anybody who drinks more than two or three quarts of water per day may be subject to problems,” said Burgstahler, a professor emeritus of chemistry at Kansas University. That’s because Lawrence’s water, like that drunk […]
United States, Kansas