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  • Yorkshire. ‘Medication without consent’: Calderdale could get fluoride in water if Kirklees and Bradford go ahead

    PARTS of Calderdale could get fluoride in their drinking water if neighbouring areas go ahead with plans to put it in the supply. Health bosses in Kirklees and Bradford want to add the controversial treatment to their water in a bid to improve dental health – but the Courier can reveal that supplies in Calderdale […]

  • NYS Health Officials Disregard Own Fluoride Cautionary Advice

    In 1990, the New York State Department of Health (DoH) published a study, “Fluoride: Benefits and Risks of Exposure,” alerting officials that fluoride can be harmful to kidney patients, diabetics and those with fluoride hypersensitivity even at “optimal” levels.(1) But the advice went unheeded, research left undone and today’s claims of safety ring hollow, says […]

  • Dentists Unkowingly Endorse Arsenic and Lead Into Our Drinking Water

    NEW YORK, June 21 /PRNewswire/ — Without residents’ consent, dentists in little towns, big cities and some states convince trusting legislators to add fluoride, claimed to reduce tooth decay, into water supplies. However, the fluoride treatment chemicals used are contaminated with lead, arsenic and other toxic industrial by-products. According to the National Sanitation Foundation (NSF), […]

  • York City Council repeals fluoride ban

    YORK — The York City Council voted 8-0 Thursday night to repeal a 30-year-old policy and begin fluoridation of drinking water. The third of three public hearings again attracted strong support from local doctors, dentists and other health specialists wearing pro-fluoridation stickers. It also attracted rock-solid opposition from an apparently small but vocal group of […]

  • Chemical Spill at Mohawk Valley Water Authority

    Crews look into what caused a chemical spill at the Mohawk Valley Water Authority in Trenton. The Executive Director says there was a hazmat situation at the site yesterday afternoon, after a large amount of hydrofluorosilicic acid leaked. According to the EPA, the chemical is used as fluoride in drinking water. We’re told the drinking […]

  • Homer council votes to stop fluoridation

    When it comes to fluoride in drinking water, Homer village trustees say keep it out. Right now, the village adds one part fluoride per million gallons of water to the drinking supply. Tuesday night, the board voted 3 to 2 to stop doing that. “It seems like in every report that we have, it seems […]

  • More Tooth Decay in Poor Children; Fluoridation No Help

    NEW YORK, Nov. 8 /PRNewswire/ — “Caries experience may be associated with income,” reports the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Low income, not fluoridation deficiency, predicts more cavities is revealed in newly-released statistics posted 10/25/04 on the CDC’s website(1). Those states reporting third-graders cavity rates and children living below the federal poverty level indicate […]

  • Fluoridation issue surfaces in Calderdale, West Yorkshire

    FLUORIDE in our drinking water was today back at the top of Calderdale’s health agenda. Councillors are seriously considering backing the controversial move after shock figures revealed the terrible state of the district’s teeth. Moves to put the chemical in water have caused outrage in the past, with protesters saying it can cause cancer, lead […]

  • Fluoride Risks Every Parent Should Know About

    “There is substantial evidence that fluoridated water, fluoride supplements, infant formulas, and fluoride toothpastes are risk factors for fluorosis,” alone and together, reports Ohio State University researcher, Dr. Ana K. Mascarenhas. And, too often, dentists and physicians misprescribe fluoride, she writes in “Risk factors for Dental Fluorosis: A review of the recent literature,” in Pediatric […]

  • ‘Unbreakable’ greenhouse gas meets its doom at last

    The war on climate change just got a chemical weapon: a way to destroy the carbon-fluorine bonds that make a class of widely used industrial gases so dangerous in the atmosphere. Gases made from carbon, fluorine and chlorine, called chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), long used as refrigerants, were banned in the 1990s because they damage the ozone […]