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EPA: Children should avoid Canyon water due to fluoride
The Environmental Protection Agency recommends Canyon children under the age of 9 not drink city water, but the Canyon Independent School District still allows daily water fountain visits and continues using tap water. Canyon residents received the 2000 drinking water quality report in their last water bill. Analysis of the city’s water led to finding […]
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Fluoride Causes Cavities?
New York – July 2, 2001 – Opposite to what’s expected, children who drink high fluoride water in areas of the African country, Uganda, have more tooth decay than their equals in low fluoride districts, and, expectedly, more severe dental fluorosis (yellow or brown teeth), according to Clinical Oral Investigations (a,b). “No teeth were lost […]
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Modesto City Council reverses course: Will place fluoridation on November ballot
At the June 26 City Council meeting in Modesto California, both supporters of fluoridation and advocates of safe drinking water appeared to be surprised as a previous 4 to 3 vote to fluoridate by the City Council was waylaid by a shift in support by a 4 to 3 vote in favor of voters making […]
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Bishopville to stop adding fluoride to water
BISHOPVILLE – Water – it runs from every spigot, every faucet, every shower head. And in Bishopville, it soon will become more natural. At the end of June, Bishopville will discontinue adding fluoride to its water, a practice that started more than 30 years ago. The American Dental Association began promoting adding fluoride to town […]
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Fort Collins Water Board Recommends Ending Fluoridation
As communities up and down the Front Range face off on fluoride, Fort Collins is preparing to put a team in place to tackle the contentious issue. The move comes three months after the city’s water board recommended the city stop fluoridating its water supply. City Manager John Fischbach has asked the Larimer County Department […]
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Dentists Unkowingly Endorse Arsenic and Lead Into Our Drinking Water
NEW YORK, June 21 /PRNewswire/ — Without residents’ consent, dentists in little towns, big cities and some states convince trusting legislators to add fluoride, claimed to reduce tooth decay, into water supplies. However, the fluoride treatment chemicals used are contaminated with lead, arsenic and other toxic industrial by-products. According to the National Sanitation Foundation (NSF), […]
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Fluoridation foes bare teeth
Tuesday, June 19, 2001 – BOULDER – Retired dentist Henry Eaton was called a communist in this city’s first war over fluoride. Eaton’s side won – city water was fluoridated – but now the battle lines are being drawn again in Boulder and in other Front Range cities over the government’s role in keeping teeth […]
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Mulberry bailout tops $1M
MANATEE COUNTY — Florida taxpayers continue to pay thousands of dollars a day to prevent an environmental disaster at two bankrupt fertilizer plants, a report released this week shows. And the bills continue to mount as the state looks for ways to clean up the mess that Mulberry Corp. left behind when financial ruin forced […]
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Boulder fluoride debate continues
Boulder’s water board probably will reconsider keeping fluoride in the city’s water supply after Environmental Advisory Board heard more than a dozen residents debate its value Thursday. There was no consensus about keeping or rejecting fluoride in drinking water, but everyone agreed the time is ripe for more public debate. “It’s obvious that a lot […]
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Eureka Springs Vote Keeps Water Fluoride-Free
EUREKA SPRINGS – City officials followed water customers’ advice and rejected fluoridation, again playing the spoiler for nearby towns that want it added to their drinking water. “The citizens of Eureka Springs don’t want to be medicated against their will,” Mayor Beau Satori said Tuesday. “They just want fine-tasting water.” The Eureka Springs City Council […]
United States, Arkansas