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Half of Kiwis want fluoride added to water – poll
Results come as group pushes to have chemical removed from Auckland supply. Almost half of New Zealanders support the adding of fluoride to their drinking water despite councils increasingly dumping it, a Herald-DigiPoll survey shows. The poll showed 48 per cent of New Zealanders supported the addition of fluoride – double the 25 per cent […]
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Kerala: Dental fluorosis on the rise
Alappuzha: Even though dental fluorosis remains a major health problem in the district, the authorities have not implemented any of the suggestions that experts have made. The percentage of fluorosis incidence among children in the district is 40 currently while it was 35.6 in 1997. The overall prevalence of dental fluorosis in the district is 40 […]
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Minnesota’s law firm in 3M PFC case disqualified
A Court of Appeals conflict of interest ruling against law firm representing state is a major blow for the attorney general’s office. After 2½ years, more than 50 highly technical expert depositions and about 6 million pages of documents, the state’s high-profile lawsuit against 3M Co. over alleged damages from a widely used family of […]
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Anti-fluoride battle moves to Auckland
An anti-fluoridation group fresh from a successful campaign in Hamilton is shifting the battle lines to our biggest city. The activists face a tough fight with a majority of Auckland city leaders, including mayor Len Brown, telling the Herald on Sunday this week that they would not want tooth decay-fighting fluoride removed from the city’s […]
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Abilene: Safety issue closes city fluoride room
A picture showing the corrosive nature of the fluoride room. T. (Courtesy photo) An employee safety issue was at the center of a decision to stop putting fluoride in Abilene’s water, in April. City Manager David Dillner said the emergency safety switch in the fluoride room at the water treatment plant has become corroded making […]
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Portland: Investigation finds no wrongdoing in how state handled dental health report
An independent review of how the state handled a dental health survey in the midst of a heated fluoridation debate in Portland has found no wrongdoing on the part of state employees. The Oregon Health Authority has staunchly maintained — and now the state’s Human Resources Department has confirmed — that there was nothing inappropriate […]
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Connecticut Health Foundation: Our Stance on Water Fluoridation
Since the late 1960s, the state of Connecticut has fluoridated its public water supply. Why? Fluoridation is the single most effective public health measure to prevent tooth decay. Water fluoridation helps prevent dental disease. It is the most efficient way to prevent one of the most common childhood diseases – dental decay. It is both […]
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Cheese is Chalk If Fluoride is Fluoride Says Hamilton Oncologist
In the USA, it costs fertilizer companies $4000-$7000, per tanker truck, to dispose of fluorosilicic acid, which is considered a toxic pollutant by the environmental protection agency (EPA) . It cannot be legally dumped in any natural water supply, yet is being added to drinking water. Hamilton Oncologist Dr Anna Goodwin says, “I was shocked […]
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Parkland will lose fluoridated water soon
Water in Parkland soon will lack a fluoride additive that a local company has been providing customers for 10 years. Board members for Parkland Light & Water, a private cooperative system that serves about 7,500 customers in the unincorporated community south of Tacoma, voted this month to stop fluoridation, which is used to reduce tooth […]
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Mayo County: Expert body on fluoride tells council fluoride in water is safe
This time last year the strategic policy committee on water supply and sewerage of Mayo County Council was given a presentation by Stephen Kerr of Fluoride Awareness Mayo, where he called on Mayo County Council to end the practice of putting fluoride in the water supply alleging that it can pose serious health risks to […]
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