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Palo Alto fluoride measure qualifies for ballot
Palo Alto voters put fluoride, the controversial cavity-fighting chemical, into the city’s drinking water in 1954. This November, they may be asked to take it out. An initiative drive headed by Palo Alto psychologist Susan Willis has gathered 2,543 valid signatures, enough to put the issue on the Nov. 4 ballot, according to City Clerk […]
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Fluoridation Does Not Decrease Childhood Cavities
“It may…be that fluoridation of drinking water does not have a strong protective effect against early childhood caries (ECC),” reports dentist Howard Pollick, University of California, and colleagues, in the Winter 2003 Journal of Public Health Dentistry(1). The dental profession promises steep cavity declines in populations who drink water with fluoride added, especially in poor […]
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Palo Alto’s 49 years of fluoridation going to the voters
Palo Alto Citizens for Safe Drinking Water announced today that a Certificate of Sufficiency of the Initiative Petition was received from the City Clerk’s office on Friday, May 23. The Certificate verifies that the more than 3000 signatures filed on May 15 contained valid signatures in excess of the 2194 necessary to place the Palo […]
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A ‘New and Improved’ Cavity-Fighting Paste
There is no doubt that fluoride helps fight cavities, but Stony Brook oral biologist Dr. Israel Kleinberg has developed what he believes is a better cavity- fighting substance – and he now has evidence to support his theory. The results from a two-year study of the substance – called CaviStat – suggest that children who […]
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Seaford to begin fluoridation of water to comply with state law
The City of Seaford will begin adding fluoride to its public water system June 2 in compliance with state law. Under Senate Bill 173, passed in 1998, municipal water supplies must fluoridate drinking water. The General Assembly provided funds for each municipality’s set-up costs and the first three years of fluoride costs. The American Dental […]
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Ridgeland considers adding fluoride to water system
The dental debate rages on. Ridgeland is considering reintroducing fluoride to its drinking water system. But the Town Council’s decision may come down to cost rather than the pros and cons of the chemical additive which many believe helps prevent tooth decay. The town discontinued fluoridation in the mid-80s to cut costs at the water […]
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DuPont officials file a request to protect its medical records
PARKERSBURG — A motion from DuPont to block the release of certain medical records of employees beyond testing for the presence of C8 was filed in Wood County Circuit Court Friday afternoon. Steve Fennell, an attorney with Steptoe and Johnson in Washington, D.C., the firm representing DuPont, said the company is not seeking to prevent […]
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Community will not be well-served by fluoride
The Coloradoan has sunk to a new low when reporting on fluoridation. After calling those who want clean water “anti-fluoride crusaders,” the Coloradoan (April 25) reported that two “boards” support fluoridation. One of those “boards” is a board of directors of a “special district.” The Water Board is the only board appointed by City Council […]
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Fluoridation may be revisited in Sequim
SEQUIM — Fluoridation might not be a dead issue in the city of Sequim. But Mayor Walt Schubert said it will need a bottom-up effort to bring it completely back to life. “It’s not hard to get an initiative on the ballot,” Schubert said Wednesday. Schubert also pledged his support of a campaign to gather […]
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Columbiana Water Board Votes No to Fluoridation
The Columbiana Water Board has decided not to add fluoride to its water after the majority of customers responding to a survey said they didn’t want it. The decision against fluoridation affects more than 5,000 households and businesses in Columbiana and on two smaller water systems served by its water department. “I think it’s a […]
United States, Alabama