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Chemistry professor advises Oneida not to fluoridate
ONEIDA – Paul Connett, a professor of chemistry at St. Lawrence University in Canton, will speak to the Oneida Common Council about public water fluoridation, a measure which he calls both useless and dangerous to the health of city residents. Connett, who teaches general chemistry and toxicology at St. Lawrence University, has researched the issues […]
United States, New York -
Oneida council to hear view on fluoride
An opponent of putting fluoride in water plans to air his concerns in Oneida. The Common Council will hear a presentation April 11 by a St. Lawrence University chemistry professor who has studied fluoride and the fluoridation debate for six years. Paul Connett, who teaches general chemistry, environmental chemistry and toxicology, and has a doctorate […]
United States, New York -
Centerville offers well to those who don’t want fluoride
CENTERVILLE — Residents who don’t want fluoridated water can fill up their buckets at a special well, but they’ll still be paying for fluoridation. The City Council is raising water rates to cover costs of equipment and equipment installation to fluoridate the city’s water supply. The flat-fee rate hike represents a 10 percent increase over […]
United States, Utah -
Shaler Township in Teeth of Fluoride Debate
Shaler Township commissioners plan to decide this year whether adding fluoride to the township water supply is a good idea. The Shaler water system, which supplies more than 30,000 people in Shaler Township, Etna and portions of Hampton and O’Hara townships and Millvale, never has added fluoride to drinking water. If the commissioners conclude by […]
United States, Pennsylvania -
A Vocal Audience Speaks: No Fluoride
Water fluoridation took a thrashing in Spanaway Monday evening, along with health board members who failed to attend a public meeting on the subject. The choice of refreshments wasn’t very popular, either. About 70 people turned out for the Tacoma/Pierce County Health Department’s first community meeting on the agency’s proposal to require fluoridation of all […]
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Water issues dominating election talks in Plainville
Water dominates Plainville’s politics these days. The issue is not new in the town, which has faced water restrictions for more than 10 years. Several recent efforts to alleviate the shortage have raised objections, however, including sending water from a contaminated well to a North Attleborough treatment plant that fluoridates water. To allow the treatment […]
United States, Massachusetts -
“Fluoridation better choice in Plainville”
As we did in the year 2000 when North Attleboro voters faced the question of adding fluoride to the drinking water supply, The Sun Chronicle urges a Yes vote when Plainville voters face the same question on April 1. Adding a tiny amount of fluoride — at 1 part fluoride per 1 million parts of […]
United States, Massachusetts -
“Facts don’t deter fluoridation foes”
A national expert on fluoridation, brought in to bolster a drive to add fluoride to the city’s drinking water, loaded supporters with facts, endorsements and statistics at a dental summit in Billings on Friday. Judging from the skepticism expressed by some at the meeting, and the open hostility of others, those supporters are sure to […]
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Oneida’s water customers have no vote, but they have a voice
Though the villages of Vernon and Oneida Castle, the town of Verona and the city of Sherrill purchase water from the city of Oneida, they will have no vote on whether or not the city will fluoridate its water supply. As the Oneida Common Council grapples with the proposal placed before them by the Oneida-Madison […]
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FAN Versus DOW
Dear All, I am happy that we met the deadline and got our comments into the US EPA on DOW’s attempt to get sulfuryl fluoride accepted for use on 40 foodstuffs. If DOW is successful they would be adding yet another fluoride source to our diet and thereby further increasing our daily dose of fluoride […]
United States, National USA