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Fluoride Center Stage at Pierce Co. Health Board Meeting
The backdrop for Pierce County’s opening debate over fluoridated water was a movie screen filled with images of young mouths riddled with rotten teeth. “These are all children from Pierce County,” said Dr. Rebecca Sullivan, standing in front of a photo featuring six baby teeth blackened or eaten away by decay. “A lot of these […]
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Health Department Seeks to Mandate Fluoridation in Pierce County
It took three decades of lobbying and two hard-fought elections before residents of Tacoma agreed in 1989 to add fluoride to their drinking water. Similar battles are still being waged at the polls in cities, counties and states across the country. Now, the Tacoma/Pierce County Health Department is proposing what its director says is a […]
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Fluoride’s Effect on Acquatic Life Joins other Fluoride & Mercury Legislation in Washington State
Three legislative measures that may affect public policy on fluoridation were introduced in the Washington State Legislature last week. The discussion of these bills concerning water quality and fluoridation may be further impacted by two additional measures and their companion bills concerning mercury — all-in-all a busy time for consumer advocates and vested-interest trade associations. […]
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Kennewick Council Rejects Fluoridation
The city council has decided Kennewick will remain fluoride free. More than half the people filling the council chambers erupted in cheers and applause Tuesday night after a 4-3 vote rejected a $450,000 grant to help pay for putting the substance in city water as an agent to fight tooth decay. “God bless you all,” […]
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Fluoridated water appeals to many in Kennewick
Most parents of Kennewick elementary school students aren’t giving their children fluoride supplements, but they want fluoride added to the city’s water supply, according to a new survey. Parent-teacher groups at five public elementary schools and two private schools agreed to survey parents of students this month in a project started by the Tri-Cities Health […]
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Health care group seeks Kennewick water fluoridation
The Tri-Cities Health Care Task Force plans to ask the Kennewick City Council next month to consider fluoridating the city’s water supply. Kennewick water already has 0.2 parts per million fluoride naturally, but dentists and other health care professionals want to increase fluoride to 1.0 parts per million, the optimal level to protect teeth. “It […]
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Columbia River Gorge Communities Say “NO” to Fluoridation
To Safe Drinking Water Advocates, Fluoridation promoters are having a tough time in the Columbia River Gorge. In Hood River, OR, the issue has been on the radar for months. Mayor Paul Cummings is among the many citizens openly opposed to the idea, and the community is currently in a holding pattern, waiting for new […]
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Goldendale City Council rejects fluoridation proposal
In a unanimous 7-0 vote, the Goldendale City Council voted to reject any proposal to add fluoride to the city’s water supply in their meeting Monday, Sept. 17. The vote, preceded by a litany of anti-fluoride comments from councilmembers, put to rest the push by the Klickitat County Public Health Department and local health professionals, […]
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Fluoride Contamination Puts School’s Water Fountains Off Limits
The phrase “Don’t drink the water” is uttered often by travel agents, but that same warning was posted over sinks and drinking fountains Thursday at Wiley Elementary School in West Richland. A spike in the fluoride level of water supplied to the school prompted district officials to shut down the water fountains. The district is […]
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Mass medicators refuse to debate fluoride issue
An interesting thing happened on the way to medical armageddon: Public health authorities recognized that their policies are injurious and even deadly to people so, rather than change their ways and admit liability, they simply state their expertise and refuse to answer serious questions. Public health authorities believe that to publicly debate public health policy […]
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