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Experts Address Local Safe Drinking Water Activists on Fluoridation Hazards
Dr. David Kennedy, fluoride information officer and past president of the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology, joined Jeff Green, National Director of Citizens for Safe Drinking Water, in addressing a gathering of community activists at the Mermaid on the afternoon of Saturday, October 13. “I do not consider myself to be an ‘anti-fluoride […]
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Fluoride in Our Water: Recent Science and Upcoming Regulations
Locally and lately, assertions have been made that anyone who questions fluoridating our water supply is a kook who doesn’t care about poor children, and that these kooks are just a vocal minority that the rest of us should disregard. The 600 dentists, doctors, and PhDs (including world-renowned scientists, a former Chief of Water Toxicology […]
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18 million people to get fluoride in water
The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California will begin adding the cavity-fighting agent fluoride to the drinking water for 18 million Southern Californians starting today. The MWD said it will supplement the trace amounts of naturally occurring fluoride in the water it imports from the Colorado River and Northern California to levels promoted by the […]
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Southwest Riverside County’s water gets fluoridated
A good portion of residents in southwestern Riverside County can look forward to fewer cavities and healthier teeth, water officials say. Metropolitan Water District of Southern California on Monday began adding fluoride to its water supply at a Riverside treatment plant that provides water to most of western Riverside County. This is the first of […]
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Newport water to contain fluoride
Plans to add fluoride the Newport Beach’s water supply will go ahead next month, despite outcry from a group of citizens and a subsequent City Council vote to ask the water district for a delay. Some Newport residents say they worry about negative health effects associated with fluoride, but most experts say the water additive […]
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EDITORIAL: Trust the dentists, not web theories
Fluoride. Do you think it’s dangerous? Isn’t that the stuff most of us squeeze onto a toothbrush and shove into our mouths every morning and before we go to bed? So what’s the harm if our government puts it into our water supply? Won’t it help fight tooth decay? Of course it will. That’s just […]
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Newport requests fluoride delay
Newport Beach City Council voted unanimously Tuesday evening to send a letter requesting the water district delay the start of water fluoridation so they can evaluate resident’s concerns. “This is 2007. Nobody dies of a cavity,” said Newport Beach resident Dolores Otting in protest of the plan. “It’s a barbaric form of medicine to force […]
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Newport may delay adding fluoride to county water
Newport Beach City Council members will decide Tuesday whether to ask for a delay in the upcoming fluoridation of Orange County’s water supply so they can sort out residents’ concerns. The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, which provides 18% of Newport’s drinking water, plans to begin adding fluoride at the Robert B. Diemer Treatment […]
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End the insanity, junk fluoride plan
Re: your Oct. 8 Arts & Living article, “Cavity Crisis: Survey finds big holes in children’s dental care”: It’s astonishing to see any article attribute the rise in cavities to children not getting enough fluoride, when the truth is that many of us, especially small children, currently ingest more than considered safe. Due to widespread […]
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County’s fluoridation date bumped again
LOS ANGELES — Construction difficulties will again delay plans to start adding fluoride to San Diego County water supplies, this time until Dec. 3, officials from Southern California’s main water supplier said Wednesday. After waiting four years to complete billions of dollars of improvements at five water treatment plants, the Metropolitan Water District had expected […]
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