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Cairns council votes to dump fluoride
The Cairns City Council will remove fluoride from its water supply, saying it amounts to the “involuntary medication” of residents. But the council says it won’t be doing anything to determine if there’s broad community support for fluoridation to continue. “If people want to have access to fluoride, they need to take that up with […]
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Columbus Fluoridation: Fifty Years Ago Today, January 30, 1963
Fluoridation The Muscogee County Medical Society last night overwhelmingly endorsed fluoridation of the water supply here for the sixth successive time. Monday, City Commission passed an ordinance by 3-2 vote which stated that the City of Columbus will not fluoridate the water supply here.
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Windsor decides to remove fluoride from drinking water
There won’t be added fluoride in Windsor’s drinking water in the near future. Windsor city council voted to have fluoride removed after a six hour special meeting Monday night. “People expect to be able to drink their water without any consequence,” says Mayor Eddie Francis. The Windsor Utilities Commission recommended the city take it out […]
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Fluoride no longer to be added to Windsor water
Windsor’s water will no longer have fluoride added to it. Council made that decision late Monday last night after a marathon meeting to deal with this issue at a special meeting. Approximately 30 delegations addressed council at a meeting that lasted six hours. The advice from multiple dentists and doctors, including the President of the […]
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Windsor votes to remove fluoride from drinking water
Windsor on Monday joined the growing number of municipalities which have voted to end the decades-old practice of adding fluoride to the water supply in the fight against tooth decay. “A lot has changed in the last 60 years … fluoride is not the be-all and end-all to prevent tooth decay,” said Mayor Eddie Francis, […]
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4 Oxford County communities have elevated fluoride levels in drinking water
Local water is safe to drink, but the county has issued a reminder that certain segments of the population may want to think twice about pouring themselves a glass of H2O from the tap. Fluoride levels in four Oxford County communities were documented to be above the province’s Maximum Acceptable Concentration (MAC) of 1.5 mg/L, […]
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Hydrofluoric acid leak kills one at Samsung chip plant
SUWON, South Korea, — Poisonous hydrofluoric acid gas leaked at the main plant of the world’s largest memory chipmaker Samsung Electronics Co., killing one worker and injuring four others, police said Monday. Up to 10 liters of hydrofluoric acid, an acute poison that can damage lungs and bones and affect the nervous system, leaked from […]
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Thames wants fluoride but with opt out on tap
Fluoride looks likely to stay in the Thames water supply but residents may soon have the option not to drink it. The Thames Community Board has recommended the Thames-Coromandel District Council continue to add fluoride to the water supply. But the board has requested the council look at an “opt out” clause for residents who […]
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Concern over absence of fluoride in water supplies
Kota Kinabalu: The Health Ministry plans to seek a clarification from the Water Department after fluoride was found absent in water supplies. Deputy Health Director (Dental), Dr Dzulkifli Salleh, said on Saturday that his officers will meet with officers from the department this Jan 29, demanding the status of the water fluoridation programme. He explained […]
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Windsor: Doctors challenge anti-fluoride lobby
The incidence of rotten teeth is 24-per-cent higher in Kingsville and Leamington – where tap water is fluoride-free – than in Windsor, where municipal water has been fluoridated for decades, health authorities told reporters Friday. “We want council to vote to keep the fluoride in our water supply,” said Dr. Frank Charles, a local dentist […]
Canada, Ontario