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System repairs pull fluoride from water until summer
“It’s incredibly obvious isn’t it?” asks a crazed General Ripper in Dr. Strangelove, convinced that water fluoridation is a Communist plot to control America. “Foreign substances introduced into our precious bodily fluids, without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That’s the way a hard-core Commie works.” Although not without its real life […]
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Charleston: No fluoride in your water until ‘09
Charleston Water System won’t be adding trace amounts of fluoride to tap water until June or July 2009, when a storage tank at the Hanahan Water Treatment Plant is scheduled to be replaced. Charleston Water System adds fluoride to treated drinking water at levels recommended by the American Dental Association and the SC Department of […]
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Fluoridation’s dirty little secret
If the benefits to teeth from fluoridated water are hard to find, the damage done to teeth by fluoridated water is easy to see – literally. Dental fluorosis is a mottling of the tooth surface that can range from mild discoloration of the tooth surface to severe staining and pitting. The condition is permanent after […]
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Clear Danger. How a toxin was legally introduced into Columbia’s drinking water.
NOTE FROM FAN: This is an in-depth special investigative report in pdf format that was introduced on a dramatic front cover with: How Safe is the Fluoride in Your Drinking Water? Available at http://www.fluoridealert.org/so.carolina.4-9-08.pdf The first two paragraphs of the report: The year was 1965 when Columbia city council voted unanimously to add one part […]
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Former water plant guard says chemical cloud made her sick
On Dec. 24, Ava Morris was thinking about her 11-year-old son and making her rounds as a security guard at the Santee Cooper water-treatment plant in Moncks Corner. It was a silent night, uneventful, until she encountered a cloud of chemicals. “It looked like Christmas; it looked like snow,” Morris said. “In all honesty, for […]
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Fluoride hazards reported
The amount of fluoride allowed in drinking water by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency could harm young children by pitting their teeth and stripping off the protective enamel, the National Academy of Sciences concluded in a report sponsored by the EPA. The report called on the EPA to lower the maximum allowable levels of fluoride, […]
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CDC acknowledges ‘optimal level’ fluoride listings found on its Web site are incorrect
The national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has long recommended that people know how much fluoride is in their water. To help people find out, it has a Web site, which was promoted last year by the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control. On Thursday, the CDC confirmed The Post and Courier’s […]
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Ridgeland considers adding fluoride to water system
The dental debate rages on. Ridgeland is considering reintroducing fluoride to its drinking water system. But the Town Council’s decision may come down to cost rather than the pros and cons of the chemical additive which many believe helps prevent tooth decay. The town discontinued fluoridation in the mid-80s to cut costs at the water […]
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Bishopville to stop adding fluoride to water
BISHOPVILLE – Water – it runs from every spigot, every faucet, every shower head. And in Bishopville, it soon will become more natural. At the end of June, Bishopville will discontinue adding fluoride to its water, a practice that started more than 30 years ago. The American Dental Association began promoting adding fluoride to town […]
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Fluoride Accident cleanup could cost $200,000
The cost of repairs and cleanup of a chemical spill at the Hanahan Water Treatment Plant that cut off fluoride treatment for 350,000 area residents probably will be between $100,000 and $200,000, a Charleston Commissioners of Public Works official said Friday. That figure could rise, however, if the state’s Department of Health and Environmental Control […]
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