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  • Fluoride panel recommendation old news for Pointe Claire

    While Health Canada is implementing the recommendation of an independent expert panel to reduce the amount of fluoride it urges municipalities to put in drinkable water to 0.7 parts per million, the City of Pointe Claire is already ahead of the pack. “We’ve been doing that for years,” Mayor Bill McMurchie told The Chronicle. He […]

  • Fort Collins council poised to decide fate of city water

    Fluoride. Merely utter the word in Fort Collins these days and you might get an earful. Residents of the city seem staunchly divided on whether to continue adding the oft-championed cavity-fighter to drinking water. It is an issue that many have sunk their proverbial teeth into. And it is drawing near a possible end. The […]

  • Sides take issue over conclusions of Fort Collins fluoride report

    Is it safe? That is the question that has been posed to the tens of thousands of Fort Collins area residents who drink tap water treated with fluoride. While advocates of placing the cavity-fighting substance in the city’s water supply say it promotes dental health, especially for residents who have trouble affording dental care, opponents […]

  • State law clears S.D.’s concern over fluoridation

    SACRAMENTO – San Diego’s days as the biggest national holdout against water fluoridation could be numbered. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger yesterday signed legislation designed to remove the perceived threat of legal action that San Diego officials cited to explain why the city is not adding the protective treatment to its water. The measure, SB 96, by […]

  • The fate of a state bill mandating fluoridation of many water supplies will be decided during a vote this week

    SALEM — A planned Ways and Means Committee vote Friday on mandatory water fluoridation was delayed until the coming week to address a problem raised by House Speaker Jeff Merkeley, D-Portland. Meanwhile, the controversial issue threatens to sink under its own weight because of amendments that keep being added to House Bill 3099 in an […]

  • Fluoridation delayed; water provider claims shortage of chemical

    San Francisco Public Utilities Commission plans to reduce tooth decay for Milpitans and residents of other Bay Area cities by fluoridating their drinking water. The fluoridation program was scheduled to start Monday. But it will be delayed for at least one month. SFPUC, which provides most of the city’s residential water from Hetch Hetchy Reservoir […]

  • To Add Or Not To Add

    FLORENCE – For more than 50 years, the residents of this coastal town have gulped down millions of gallons of water, pumped from the surface of local lakes or from beneath sand dunes – with at least one special ingredient: fluoride. Hailed by dentists as a proven cavity foe, city officials decided in 1952 that […]

  • Drinking water fluoridation debate gathering momentum in Oregon

    Mention “fluoride” to the average person and chances are the word elicits a knee-jerk positive reaction. For decades, fluoride has been associated with shiny, happy, cavity reduced kids. Fluoride, dispensed in tablets, oozing out of toothpaste tubes, is almost as American as apple pie. However, the topic of water fluoridation remains embedded in controversy as […]

  • After 60 years, fluoridation controversy’s still hot

    Back in 1964, when the fictional General Ripper launched World War Three because he was convinced the Commies were polluting his precious bodily fluids, opposition to water fluoridation was generally considered the exclusive province of right-wing wackos. More than 40 years later, the anti-fluoride forces are still on the march–but they’re a lot different. They’re […]

  • Something in the Water

    Portlanders have voted down fluoridation three times, but now the state Legislature may force it down our throats-literally. A bill that would pressure Portland and most of Oregon to put fluoride in drinking-water supplies-and also potentially add harmful substances such as lead and arsenic-heads to the Oregon Senate after passing the state House last week. […]