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Critcher responds to allegations of politicking on fluoridation bill
BATESVILLE State Senator Jack Critcher, D-Batesville, the chair of the Senate Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee, was out-of-state last week and unavailable to comment on statements made about him by Dr. Lynn Mouden, director of the Arkansas Health Department’s Office of Oral Health, at the Celebration of 60 Years of Community Water Fluoridation symposium […]
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Appeals court hears arguments in fluoride lawsuit
SAN DIEGO —- Almost a year after the city of Escondido began adding fluoride to its drinking water, an attorney for a group of residents urged a state appeals court Wednesday to reinstate a lawsuit that claims the city’s fluoridation is violating their constitutional rights to “bodily integrity.” Attorneys for the city and the state, […]
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Bellows Falls trustees discuss fluoride removal
BELLOWS FALLS — Bellows Falls may soon join the debate over whether to remove fluoride from residents’ drinking water. Village trustees touched on the question Tuesday night and will seek community input at their next meeting in two weeks. Trustee Luise Light, a nutritionist, said on Wednesday the question is becoming increasingly urgent for Vermont […]
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Bellows Falls considers stopping fluoridation
BELLOWS FALLS — Though most of the water talk in the village has been about that which goes over the dam, the Trustees have begun discussing the water that goes into their constituents’ bodies. And while it is hard to imagine another liquid issue dividing residents as much as the dam controversy, the emerging topic […]
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Bellows Falls raises fluoride issue
BELLOWS FALLS — Trustees plan to revisit whether to continue adding fluoride to the public water system after health concerns were raised about the tooth decay-fighting additive. The Bellows Falls Board of Trustees agreed to hold a public hearing Aug. 23 to discuss the issue of fluoride, which has been added to the drinking water […]
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Fluoride returns to MP ballot
For the second straight November, residents of Mt. Pleasant will decide whether or not fluoride should be added to city water. By taking no action on a citizen initiative Monday night, city commissioners allowed the ballot question to automatically head to the Nov. 8 election. In a memo to commissioners, the city clerk said that […]
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Zogby Survey: Connecticut Voters Say ‘Ban Dental Mercury’
HARTFORD, Conn., Aug. 9 /PRNewswire/ — A survey conducted by Zogby International shows Connecticut voters overwhelmingly want to ban dental mercury (so-called “silver” fillings). Zogby surveyed Connecticut voters in August and found: * 87% support the law that prohibits the sale of mercury products in Connecticut; * 79% did not know mercury is a primary […]
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Refiners unnecessarily put millions at risk
WASHINGTON – Some U.S. refineries are using an extremely hazardous chemical that threatens the health and safety of millions of people even though there is a cost-effective and less toxic alternative, a consumer advocacy group said Thursday. The Public Interest Research Group, an advocate of stronger environmental and consumer protection laws, is urging Congress to […]
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Speaker flails value of fluoride
The leader of a national anti-fluoridation group blasted a proposal to fluoridate Bellingham’s drinking water Thursday night. Paul Connett, executive director of Fluoride Action Network and a chemistry professor at St. Lawrence University in New York, told about 60 people gathered at Broadway Hall in Bellingham that the risks of putting small amounts of fluoride […]
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Powdery chemical covers cars in East Fishkill
HOPEWELL JUNCTION — A baseball-sized clump of a potentially dangerous chemical was released last month at a local manufacturing plant, worrying employees whose cars were covered by the chemical. The “spill” happened on July 7 at the East Fishkill IBM and Philips Semiconductor campus, according to internal documents from IBM and Philips. About 80 cars […]
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