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Sulfuryl fluoride: Environmental groups petition EPA to retract fluoride pesticide tolerances on food
Two national environmental organizations, Environmental Working Group and Beyond Pesticides, joined today with the Fluoride Action Network in challenging the safety of new food tolerances issued by the EPA for the fluoride based pesticide, sulfuryl fluoride. This action marks growing concern among mainstream scientists and environmental organizations that total exposure to fluoride, from water, food, […]
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Environmental groups petition EPA to retract fluoride pesticide tolerances on food
Two national environmental organizations, Environmental Working Group and Beyond Pesticides, joined today with the Fluoride Action Network in challenging the safety of new food tolerances issued by the EPA for the fluoride based pesticide, sulfuryl fluoride. This action marks growing concern among mainstream scientists and environmental organizations that total exposure to fluoride, from water, food, […]
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Council passes resolution urging reduction of fluoride
Water fluoridation has become an issue in Burlington, and the City Council on Monday took note of the debate. After lengthy debate, and by a divided vote, it passed a resolution urging that the amount of fluoride in the city’s water be reduced to the minimum level recommended by state and national authorities. The final […]
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Fluoride shortage could push up water rates
The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority says its fluoride costs are about to increase 32 percent as a result of a nationwide shortage that could ultimately hit the wallets of MWRA ratepayers. The added costs will not immediately cause rates to rise, but could eventually drive up costs for residents and businesses that get water from […]
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Taunton lawyer to fight North fluoride
NORTH ATTLEBORO — The board of health’s push to end fluoridation of town water could soon be headed to Superior Court, with a Taunton lawyer agreeing to take the case at no cost. Board of health Chairwoman Diane Battistello is cheering the news, but selectmen are fuming that any litigation filed will require the town […]
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Some rethink fluoridation of water
Some Tennesseans are rethinking whether it’s such a good idea to add fluoride to public drinking water supplies, questioning whether the additive is as dangerous as it is helpful. City officials in Franklin are reconsidering their city’s long-standing practice of putting fluoride in the drinking water to help prevent tooth decay. Last year, a utility […]
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Smyrna to begin water fluoridation to comply with state law
The Town of Smyrna will add fluoride to its public water system beginning Oct. 1 to comply with state law, announced Delaware Health and Social Services’ Division of Public Health (DPH). Under Senate Bill 173, passed in 1998, municipal water supplies must fluoridate their water. For more than 40 years, the American Dental Association has […]
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Fluoride: How much, if any, is a good thing?
BELLOWS FALLS — Whether or not the village water is safe to drink depends, according to the Trustees, if you see the glass as half-empty or half-full. The public water meets all state standards and people who drink it are in no immediate danger, Municipal Manager Shane O’Keefe said at the Trustee meeting this week. […]
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Fluoridation delayed; water provider claims shortage of chemical
San Francisco Public Utilities Commission plans to reduce tooth decay for Milpitans and residents of other Bay Area cities by fluoridating their drinking water. The fluoridation program was scheduled to start Monday. But it will be delayed for at least one month. SFPUC, which provides most of the city’s residential water from Hetch Hetchy Reservoir […]
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Support inquiry into fluoride as carcinogen
An online petition calling for a Congressional investigation into the safety of fluoridation has been posted on the Fluoride Action Network website. Maureen Jones, the director of Citizens for Safe Drinking Water, is calling attention to the petition which, she says, supports the 11 environmental protection unions that are contending that there should be a […]
United States, Missouri