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Springfield voters reject fluoride
There’s nothing in the water here, and that’s the way it’s going to stay. Springfield will remain the largest city in Ohio without fluoride in its water after the failure of Issue 8 in Tuesday’s election. City residents voted against adding fluoride to the city’s water supply by 57 to 43 percent. There were 8,747 […]
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Bethany begins fluoridation of water to comply with state law
The Town of Bethany will add fluoride to its public water system beginning Nov. 7 to comply with state law, according to the Division of Public Health’s Office of Drinking Water. Under Senate Bill 173, passed in 1998, municipal water supplies must fluoridate their water. There is no established time frame for compliance. For more […]
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Fluoride bill a turnoff
Local officials might hold widely differing views on the merits of fluoridation, but most say they oppose legislation that would require Massachusetts cities and towns to add the cavity-fighting compound to public water supplies. “I’m against mandating that on communities,” said state Rep. Betty Poirier, R-North Attleboro. “They all have a board of health in […]
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Fluoride back on Tooele ballot
TOOELE — When residents here vote next week, they will be asked whether they want fluoride added to their drinking water, six years after voters defeated that same idea by a nearly two-to-one margin. Tooele dentist Dr. Clair Vernon and Tooele County Health Department director Myron Bateman asked the City Council last month to consider […]
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Homer council votes to stop fluoridation
When it comes to fluoride in drinking water, Homer village trustees say keep it out. Right now, the village adds one part fluoride per million gallons of water to the drinking supply. Tuesday night, the board voted 3 to 2 to stop doing that. “It seems like in every report that we have, it seems […]
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Fluoride backers file ad complaint
An advertising insert calling fluoride “toxic waste” violates several state election laws, a complaint from a political action committee trying to add fluoride to Bellingham’s drinking water claims. Bellingham Families Fluoride filed a complaint with the state’s Public Disclosure Commission saying the advertisement is from an unregistered political action committee calling itself Clean Water Health […]
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Guntown may add fluoride to water; citizens protest
GUNTOWN – Officials are considering whether to add fluoride to the town’s drinking water, despite one resident’s objections. “Several home and business owners locally have been discussing the upcoming meeting and many are opposed to the thought of fluoride in their drinking water,” wrote Ann Myers, owner of Guntown Antiques, in a letter to Town […]
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Time and the Anti-Fluoride Cause
In the words of Carl Sagan: “We’ve arranged a global civilization in which most critical elements depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster.” The combination of a scientifically unsophisticated public and the profusion of easily accessible crackpot […]
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Fluoride shortage leaves towns scrambling
A nationwide shortage of fluoride has prompted eight communities northwest of Boston to scramble for the compound used to prevent cavities, and some water providers are likely to run out of the product soon. In mid-August, a Florida manufacturer notified its distributor that it would no longer produce hydrofluosilicic acid, one of the products used […]
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Watsonville loses fluoride appeal in precedent-setting case
Fluoride could flow from city taps within a year. The city’s nearly 3-year-old fight to keep the chemical out of its water supply may have come to an end Wednesday when an appeals court ruled a state fluoridation law trumps local voters. The ruling by the Sixth District Court of Appeals sets a precedent for […]
United States, California