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Appeals court hears arguments in fluoride lawsuit
SAN DIEGO —- Almost a year after the city of Escondido began adding fluoride to its drinking water, an attorney for a group of residents urged a state appeals court Wednesday to reinstate a lawsuit that claims the city’s fluoridation is violating their constitutional rights to “bodily integrity.” Attorneys for the city and the state, […]
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Critcher responds to allegations of politicking on fluoridation bill
BATESVILLE State Senator Jack Critcher, D-Batesville, the chair of the Senate Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee, was out-of-state last week and unavailable to comment on statements made about him by Dr. Lynn Mouden, director of the Arkansas Health Department’s Office of Oral Health, at the Celebration of 60 Years of Community Water Fluoridation symposium […]
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Zogby Survey: Connecticut Voters Say ‘Ban Dental Mercury’
HARTFORD, Conn., Aug. 9 /PRNewswire/ — A survey conducted by Zogby International shows Connecticut voters overwhelmingly want to ban dental mercury (so-called “silver” fillings). Zogby surveyed Connecticut voters in August and found: * 87% support the law that prohibits the sale of mercury products in Connecticut; * 79% did not know mercury is a primary […]
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Fluoride returns to MP ballot
For the second straight November, residents of Mt. Pleasant will decide whether or not fluoride should be added to city water. By taking no action on a citizen initiative Monday night, city commissioners allowed the ballot question to automatically head to the Nov. 8 election. In a memo to commissioners, the city clerk said that […]
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Speaker flails value of fluoride
The leader of a national anti-fluoridation group blasted a proposal to fluoridate Bellingham’s drinking water Thursday night. Paul Connett, executive director of Fluoride Action Network and a chemistry professor at St. Lawrence University in New York, told about 60 people gathered at Broadway Hall in Bellingham that the risks of putting small amounts of fluoride […]
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Refiners unnecessarily put millions at risk
WASHINGTON – Some U.S. refineries are using an extremely hazardous chemical that threatens the health and safety of millions of people even though there is a cost-effective and less toxic alternative, a consumer advocacy group said Thursday. The Public Interest Research Group, an advocate of stronger environmental and consumer protection laws, is urging Congress to […]
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Mandatory fluoridation battle not over
While a bill requiring the fluoridation of public water supplies in Arkansas did not pass in this year’s session of the Arkansas General Assembly, proponents of the proposal are not giving up. “We are going to do this again, and if we have to, we are going to do it again and we’re going to […]
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Powdery chemical covers cars in East Fishkill
HOPEWELL JUNCTION — A baseball-sized clump of a potentially dangerous chemical was released last month at a local manufacturing plant, worrying employees whose cars were covered by the chemical. The “spill” happened on July 7 at the East Fishkill IBM and Philips Semiconductor campus, according to internal documents from IBM and Philips. About 80 cars […]
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Anti-fluoridation leader to speak Thursday, Friday
A national leader in anti-fluoridation efforts will speak Thursday and Friday in Bellingham at events organized by people opposing a proposal to fluoridate Bellingham’s drinking water. Paul Connett, executive director of Fluoride Action Network and professor of environmental chemistry at St. Lawrence University, will be among the panelists at a public forum at Broadway Hall […]
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Water district that dropped fluoride reconsidering after outcry
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Oral surgeon Jonathan Hanson was reading a routine water quality report produced annually by the local water district when he noticed the fluoride level seemed unusually low. So Hanson, who helped persuade officials to start fluoridating the water in the 1980s, began calling around. What he learned shocked some dentists, doctors […]
United States, Missouri