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Culver Town Council needs more time for fluoridation considerations
The Culver Town Council has a decision to make regarding public health, but decided to postpone providing direction until more council members were present. The Town is in the process of designing a new water treatment facility. At this point in the design, engineers are requesting council input on whether the Town will use fluoride […]
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Eizabeth: Officials in one Southern Indiana town consider removing fluoride from water
A decades old debate has resurfaced in Elizabeth, Indiana. Some town leaders want to stop using fluoride in the water. … “Up to this point, comments expressed publicly have been about 70 percent in favor of doing away with fluoride with about 30 percent being opposed to it,” said Burns. … Tony Combs with the […]
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Valparaiso to vote on fluoride recommendation Monday
VALPARAISO — The last step in continuing to add fluoride to the city’s water is expected with a City Council vote at Monday’s meeting. Despite the summer-long study by a special commission with experts from both sides weighing in and a 110-page report issued by the Valparaiso City Utilities Fluoride Commission in August, the issue […]
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Valpo board sends fluoride recommendation to council
VALPARAISO | The city’s Utilities Board on Tuesday voted to send to the council its recommendation to continue fluoridation of the city’s water supply. The action follows the recommendation of the seven-person fluoride commission, which met six times between May 21 and Aug. 7 to hear information and comments for and against fluoridation before voting […]
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Valpo board to vote on fluoride use in 2 weeks
VALPARAISO | The city’s Utilities Board is expected to vote in two weeks on a recommendation to the council on whether Valparaiso should continue to add fluoride to the city water supply. The board officially received the report of its fluoride commission at Tuesday’s meeting. The commission voted 5 to 2 earlier this month in […]
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Valparaiso panel nears recommendation on fluoride in water
VALPARAISO — A recommendation on whether the city should continue to fluoridate its drinking water will come in two to three weeks. The Valparaiso City Utilities Fluoride Commission will make a decision at its fifth meeting and formulate a report on it for the City Utilities Board. If it passes there, it will go on […]
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Valparaiso panel told of ill-effects of fluoride in water supply
As a special committee contemplates whether to continue adding fluoride to city drinking water, anti-fluoride advocates spoke Wednesday about the dangers of fluoride. Four speakers presented a number of possible health problems and risks from fluoridation, using online videos. The speakers repeated three points: Fluoride is only effective topically, is unsafe for babies and is […]
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Experts testify in favor of water fluoridation in Valparaiso
VALPARAISO — The commission considering whether to continue adding fluoride to city water was the first to know the results of a study on how fluoride affects intelligence. The study shows the mineral has no significant effect on IQ and developing children, according to Dr. E. Angeles Martinez-Mier of the Indiana University School of Dentistry […]
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Pro-fluoridation experts to offer advice to Valparaiso panel
VALPARAISO — Pro-fluoridation experts will get their chance to make a pitch Thursday to those charged with deciding if the city should continue to fluoridate its water supply. The Commission also will allow others to ask questions and comment at the 5 p.m. meeting at City Hall, but comments must be pro-fluoridation. “If you’re opposed […]
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Valparaiso. Guest commentary: Fluoridation’s time is ending
The Times’ editorial regarding the fluoridating of Valparaiso’s water in the future did get one thing right. The answer to this important question is getting easier, but not in the way the editorial states. Many of us who have done the research believe that once the scientific facts are revealed, fluoride will eventually fall the […]
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