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Lafayette discontinues fluoridation program
More than 170 million Americans, or 67 percent of the United States population served by public water supplies, drink water with optimal fluoride levels for preventing tooth decay, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Customers of the City of Lafayette’s water system, however, are no longer among them. According to Mayor Bill […]
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Juneau: Fluoride commission split over city water
The Juneau Assembly likely will get a split recommendation regarding the continued use of fluoride in city water, said Juneau Fluoride Study Commission Chairman Bart Rozelle. “We are not of one mind whether we are in favor of continuing fluoridation or not,” Rozelle said of the commission. “We are meeting the 24th of May to […]
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The risk of fluoride is outweighed by the benefit
In the late 1990s, New Bedford’s anti-poverty agency, PACE, found that the single most important form of health care that many poor people in our community wanted and needed was dental care. At that time, PACE found that of the 88 dentists practicing in the New Bedford area only two were accepting patients who had […]
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Acid leak forces residents to leave
Dozens of people in Wynnewood were evacuated Saturday after an acid leak at the Gary-Williams Co. refinery sent potentially dangerous fumes floating through the air north of the plant, Garvin County Undersheriff Steven Brooks said. Residents of about 45 homes were to be kept from their homes overnight, Brooks said. Red Cross officials were helping […]
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Bellows Falls will continue to fluoridate water
BELLOWS FALLS, Vt. –Village voters decided by a wide margin to continue adding fluoride to the public water supply. The vote came at a village meeting on Monday. At a series of hearings, some residents challenged the long-held assumption that fluoride was a safe way to reduce tooth decay. They claimed that new research showed […]
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The evidence that fluoride is harmful is overwhelming
Dr. Limeback was one of the 12 scientists who served on the National Academy of Sciences panel that issued the 2006 report, “Fluoride in Drinking Water: A Scientific Review of the EPA’s Standards.” Dr. Limeback is an associate professor of dentistry and head of the preventive dentistry program at the University of Toronto. ### The […]
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BF residents get conflicting reports on fluoride
BELLOWS FALLS — Bob Carton, an environmental scientist who has done work for the federal Environmental Protection Agency, stood in front of a small crowd at Town Hall, Wednesday, and said that a recent report on fluoride in water showed conclusively that the chemical poses serious health risks. A few minutes later, Alida Lund of […]
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Adding fluoride to water may pose health risks
Scary news travels fast. Within weeks after the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences released a study citing adverse health effects of fluoride in water supplies, the Hightstown Board of Health introduced a draft recommendation to the Borough Council supporting a ban on water fluoridation. Dylan Ross, an alternate Board of Health […]
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NA fluoride lawsuit filed
NORTH ATTLEBORO – The department of public works was served this week with the board of health’s lawsuit to stop fluoridation of the town’s public water supply. The board of health had filed a lawsuit in Bristol County Superior Court asking a judge to determine whether it has the authority to end fluoridation. A majority […]
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Kiddie H2O — fluoridated, but bottled
Bottled water-toting parents face a dilemma. They want to fill sippie cups with the same filtered or spring water that they drink. However, they also may want kids to get the fluoride in tap water. So what’s the answer? Nestlé is the latest bottled water company to come out with a product to fill that […]
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