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Louisiana – Targeted for more fluoridation?
NEW ORLEANS — Community drinking water not treated with fluoride is an open invitation to tooth decay, a dental consultant to the Louisiana Office of Public Health said Friday. “We have to have fluoride in the water, or we get decay,” Dr. Greg Folse, who sits on the faculty of LSU Health Sciences Center’s School […]
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Health panel criticized for handling of fluoride issue
City staff in Independence will address comments from a citizen who is complaining about the way the Advisory Board of Health is treating the fluoride issue. John Pennell, a frequent speaker at City Council meetings, says he has dedicated himself to finding studies to disprove the blanket statements from local dentists and health board members […]
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Massachusetts Dental Society “Honored” with Dirty Dozen Award
Southborough – The Massachusetts Dental Society (MDS) today received a 2002 Dirty Dozen Award spotlighting it as one of the twelve top polluters in the Commonwealth for unregulated mercury discharges. In the process of restoring teeth with so-called “silver” fillings – actually 50% mercury – dentists nation wide use approximately 40 metric tons of mercury […]
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Phosphate industry aims to be corporate neighbor
The phosphate mining industry attempts to promote favorable regulations and a positive image in the ways one might expect of a billion-dollar global industry. The industry lobbies lawmakers, contributes to community coffers and publishes literature that suggests phosphate mining pumps billions of dollars into the economy and leaves behind reclaimed lands in a near-pristine condition. […]
United States, Florida Phosphate Industry -
Whose Hands are Dirty?
Thimerosal is a preservative that contains mercury and was used for many years as an additive in some routinely administered children’s vaccines. Fears developed a few years ago that the additive might have been causing dangerously elevated levels of mercury in infants, resulting in neurological impairment and, in some cases, autism. Studies thus far have […]
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Watsonville voters say no to fluoride
WATSONVILLE, Calif. — More than two weeks after election day, the results of a key local race are finally known. Measure “S,” the initiative banning fluoride or other additives from Watsonville’s water, has passed with a simple majority of 51 percent “yes” to 49 percent “no.” While Watsonville voters have decided they don’t want fluoride […]
United States, California -
Beaverton fluoride debate flows into night
BEAVERTON — The discussion about whether to continue fluoridating much of Tualatin Valley Water District’s water, expand the practice or end it was planned to last an hour. But the talking went on for three hours. Twenty-one speakers divided almost evenly on the subject in a hearing before the five-commissioner board Wednesday night. The commissioners […]
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Officials look at adding fluoride to Marion’s water
Marion’s water system is one of the few in the region without added fluoride to fight dental decay, and city officials want to change that. However, the process will take months of work and an estimated $44,000. City officials said fluoridation of the water is long overdue and badly needed in Marion. “We are in […]
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Is fluoridation safe?
Is fluoridated water proven safe, beneficial or efficient for Independence? The compound used in most U.S. cities for fluoridation is fluorosilicic acid. It never has been tested for long-term effects on the human body. As the compound breaks up throughout the water-distribution system, it has proven to leach lead from plumbing joints and increase the […]
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Redding rejects fluoride grant
Thanks, but no thanks. The city of Redding on Friday declined a $1.6 million California Dental Association Foundation grant for water fluoridation equipment. That move sets up a possible showdown with the state over a 1995 law requiring fluoridation once such grant money is offered. In his letter to the foundation, City Manager Mike Warren […]
United States, California