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Speaker outlines fluoride hazards
LAYTON –Once the fluoride initiative is defeated here in Utah, those who worked hard to bring about its demise can’t go home and “sit on their laurels,” a California dentist who is against fluoridating water told a group of about 75 people here last week. Dr. David Kennedy, a retired dentist from San Diego, who […]
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Sodium Fluoride Proposed for Use in New Organic Standards
Comments due by: June 12, 2000 In the proposed National Organic Standards Rule (the Rule), the USDA states its intention to allow the use of EPA’s List 4 Inerts as Allowed Substances for the production and handling of organic food… unless specifically prohibited. The List 4 Inerts includes sodium fluoride (NaF), but NaF should be […]
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Rivals debate fluoride
So what about fluoride? Both sides were presented Wednesday evening as a battle of words, coupled with conflicting research, characterized The Herald Journal’s forum on water fluoridation. An occasional heckler from the anti-fluoridation gallery taunted proponents Ariel Thomson and John Hubbard, but the setting was generally educational. But again, the question of to fluoridate or […]
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CDC: Fluoride safe, protects teeth
WOODS CROSS (AP) — The public debate about fluoridated water has nothing to do with science, according to an engineer with the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “Scientifically, (fluoridation) is absolutely safe,” David Apanian told water-system operators, elected leaders and public health officials from five Utah counties Tuesday. “It is effective. There are […]
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Cumberland to Add Fluoride to Water
Cumberland residents cleared the way for the city to add fluoride to their water supply by voting overwhelmingly in favor of repealing a 10-year-old ban on the cavity-fighting chemical. They voted 2,525 to 1,633 Tuesday to repeal the ban, a margin of 61 percent to 39 percent. The issue has divided residents for decades in […]
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3M to stop making many Scotchgard products
CHICAGO, May 17 (Reuters) – Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co. (3M) said on Tuesday it would stop making many of its well-known Scotchgard products after tests revealed the chemical compounds involved linger in the environment and in the human body for years. Medical monitoring of employees at plants that make the chemicals have shown the […]
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CDC Engineer Touts Fluoride’s Benefits
WOODS CROSS — The national debate about fluoridated water — like the one shaping up in Utah this year — is purely political and emotional, a federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention engineer said Tuesday. One thing it’s not, said David Apanian, is scientific. “Scientifically, [fluoridation] is absolutely safe. It is effective. There are […]
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Cumberland voters return fluoride to town
CUMBERLAND — Cumberland voters overwhelmingly approved yesterday a bid to lift the city’s decade-old ban on fluoridating its water supply, signaling a major shift in Western Maryland’s traditional hostility to the widely accepted cavity-fighting chemical. By a vote of 2,525 to 1,633 in unofficial returns, residents opted to repeal a charter provision barring the addition […]
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National Water Week Marked by Congressional Probe on Fluoridation
In the week set aside by President Bush in 1990 for observance May 7 – 13, 2000 as National Drinking Water Week, the House of Representatives Committee on Science expanded their field of inquiry on fluoridation of public water systems to include other agencies that play a part in the decisions and actions surrounding the […]
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Wound Up About Fluoride
A little bit of poison can be good for you. It’s a pretty fundamental tenet of medicine and of life. Just the right amount of aspirin, even wine or beer, can extend your life; too much and you’re on your way to detox. The old axiom of excess and moderation is also the basis of […]
United States, Colorado
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