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Independence council backs public vote on fluoride issue
Independence residents are likely to have their say on fluoride in November. The City Council decided Tuesday night to place on the Nov. 4 ballot the question of raising the fluoride level in the city’s water. “We are elected to represent the majority,” Mayor Ron Stewart said. The council was prepared to hear the first […]
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Victory in Canton
Dear All, Raise your glasses. Tonight we stopped fluoridation in Canton, NY, our home town. The Village Trustees voted 3 to 1, with the Mayor abstaining, to halt fluoridation. The fluoridation was discontinued in July, 2001 for technical reasons – the equipment needed replacing. This provided us a window of opportunity to halt fluoridation permanently, […]
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INTERNAL WARNINGS: Industry memos show DUPONT knew for decades that a chemical used to make Teflon is polluting workers and neighbors
LITTLE HOCKING, Ohio — Kenny Taggart always volunteered for blood drives at the DuPont plant across the Ohio River, where he spent most of his adult life mixing chemicals used to make Teflon anti-stick coatings. When Taggart stopped by the plant’s medical office in the early 1980s to offer another pint, the nurse shook her […]
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Port Angeles, Washington considers grant for water fluoridation
Should Port Angeles fluoridate its water? That’s the question that will be debated before the City Council in a public hearing Tuesday. The hearing could be followed by a vote by the council members on whether to fluoridate. More than 162 million Americans have fluoridated water, while around 82 million do not. Battles over the […]
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Fluoride decision catches Southern Californians by surprise
A day after the Metropolitan Water District surprised many in the water world by voting to fluoridate Southern California’s drinking water supply, North County officials were still grappling with how the decision will affect their agencies and customers. Almost all said they were caught off guard by the vote. Some entities, such as the city […]
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Unanimous vote keeps Shaler’s water fluoride-free
Shaler commissioners have decided to keep the township’s water supply free of fluoride. By a 7-0 vote, commissioners decided to go along with a water committee’s recommendation last month to reject a proposal that would add fluoride to the water. Shaler’s water supply, which comes from underground aquifers near the Allegheny River and supplies more […]
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Metropolitan Water District to implement massive fluoridation project
LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Feb. 11, 2003–Drinking water supplies for up to 18 million Southern Californians will be fluoridated after Metropolitan Water District’s board of directors today adopted a policy that calls for the cavity-fighting agent to be added to its treatment processes. “At a cost of less than a dollar a family, the dental and medical […]
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Southern California water agency approves massive fluoridation project
California’s largest water agency voted Tuesday to add fluoride to the water it supplies to 18 million customers from the Mexican border to the central coast. California, because of pockets of stubborn opposition, has long trailed the nation on water fluoridation. Only a handful of Southern California cities, including Beverly Hills and Long Beach, currently […]
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Shaler commissioners to vote tonight on fluoride measure
Shaler commissioners are expected to vote tonight to keep Shaler’s water supply fluoride-free. Shaler’s water system, which provides more than 30,000 people with water in most of Shaler, Etna, and parts of Millvale, O’Hara and Hampton, has never been fluoridated. Commissioner Bill Cross said he expected commissioners to follow last months’ water committee recommendation to […]
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Bottled water creates a ‘fluoride gap’
ATLANTA – As more Americans are drinking from the bottle instead of the tap, dentists are sending patients home with prescriptions for fluoride. Most bottled waters contain little or none of the fluoride that’s standard in tap water and is considered essential to hardening teeth and preventing cavities in children. So dentists are urging patients […]
United States, National USA