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Queensland: State Govt passed the buck on fluoride, says LNP Member
A BRISBANE LNP Member supports the Fraser Coast Mayor’s suggestion that the State Government should have made the final decision on fluoride. Member for Nudgee Jason Woodforth said he believed it was wrong for the LNP to dump responsibility for the controversial additive’s future on councils. He said the LNP should have instead mandated fluoride […]
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Iron tablet anti-anaemia plan will not work
The health ministry’s proposal to tackle anaemia by providing iron folic acid (IFA) tablets every week to 130 million adolescent girls across the country ‘is old wine in new bottles, unlikely change things,’ an expert has warned. ‘It is a repeat of the approach that failed miserably even after 40 years of implementation,’ A.K. Susheela, director […]
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Pine Island: Upcoming island water association by-law addition and directors election
To the editor All of the voting members of the Greater Pine Island Water Association should have received their ballot for voting for water board positions and the new amendment to the by-laws, Article XV. If you haven’t received your ballot, stop in GPIWA office and they will provide a duplicate. The ballot must be […]
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Cadillac Considers Fluoride
City officials in Cadillac want voters to decide whether to add fluoride to the water. Cadillac is the largest city in Michigan without fluoridation. The city is considering a grant to help pay for a system to add fluoride. Fluoride prevents tooth decay but some council members have reservations about adding it to the city […]
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Graham wants to remove fluoride from drinking water
If Mebane follows the lead of Graham, drinking water both municipalities draw upon will no longer be fluoridated. Graham’s city council voted unanimously Tuesday night to discontinue adding fluoride to the Graham-Mebane Lake water supply, contingent on their partner-city’s action. The decision came after the council heard a presentation from its utilities director, Victor Quick, […]
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Madhya Pradesh directed to pay compensation to 7 Fluorosis-hit children
New Delhi: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Wednesday directed the Madhya Pradesh Government to pay Rs 10,000 each as compensation to seven children, who suffered from Fluorosis due to consumption of water with high content of fluoride. Taking cognisance of a complaint filed by a human rights activist, who quoting a media report, […]
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Boston: Residents in some suburbs want fluoride out of their water
Officials and residents in several communities south of Boston are pushing to stop or reduce the use of fluoride in their drinking water supply. A majority of Massachusetts residents receive tap water that includes a chemical additive — either sodium fluoride, sodium fluorosilicate, or fluorosilicic acid — to help stave off tooth decay. Over the past 60 […]
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Windsor approves anti-fluoride bylaw
Windsor city council on Monday night held its second recorded vote in a week to formalize its decision made to remove fluoride from the city’s drinking water. “Bylaw 20-2013, a bylaw to discontinue the fluoridation system in Windsor,” passed again by the same 8-3 margin as the Jan. 28 vote that followed a nearly six-hour […]
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Councillors to debate fluoride on the Western Downs
COUNCIL will have the opportunity to reverse a 46-year-old policy of water fluoridation. Local governments now have the power to decide on whether their region’s water supplies should be fluoridated, and a report will hit Western Downs councillors’ desks this week. Dalby’s water supply has been fluoridated since May 1966, while Chinchilla only had the […]
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City commissioner unexpectedly raises issue of Lawrence drinking water fluoridation
Like a cavity that sneaks up on you at the dentist office, Lawrence city commissioners found the makings of an unexpected debate on Tuesday. Should the city’s two water treatment plants continue to add fluoride to the city’s drinking water? City commissioners at their weekly meeting directed City Auditor Michael Eglinski to prepare a report […]
United States, Kansas