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  • Dentists renew push to require fluoride

    SALEM – Oregon dentists, who for decades have have come out on the losing side of campaigns to add fluoride to the state’s drinking water, returned to Salem on Monday to try again. But this session’s opening hearing made it clear that, while the battle is old, the battle lines aren’t. In decades past, dentists […]

  • A New York 2007 “Dirty Dozen” Award nominated by FAN

    The New York 2007 “Dirty Dozen” Awards to Polluters and New York State Government Agencies Today the Albany-based Citizens’ Environmental Coalition unveiled the recipients of its fourth annual “Dirty Dozen“ Awards* to various polluters and state agencies in New York. The “winners” were selected by a committee based on the severity of the threat they […]

  • York council opposes fluoride in water

    STRONG city council opposition to fluoride being added to York’s water supply will be sent directly to Prime Minister Tony Blair. City of York Council chief executive David Atkinson will write to Mr Blair and Secretary of State for Health John Reid outlining the council’s concerns over fluoride in tap water. York’s water supply is […]

  • Bill would require fluoridation of water

    YORK — It’s not something that York opponents of fluoridation probably want to hear, after they fought a city proposal to add it to the water supply. But LB 245 is seeking to create a mandate that all towns with more than 1,000 residents should have to add fluoride to their water. The bill, which […]

  • York County meeting on access that people with lower incomes have to dental care and the fluoridation of public water

    Dr. Veasey Cullen Jr., sees an underlying irony in the push for fluoridated water. Those who most support making it mandatory and universal are those who have the most to lose from that arrangement. To wit: dental professionals such as himself. “If you have fluoridated water, dentists are the ones who won’t see the patients […]

  • A ‘New and Improved’ Cavity-Fighting Paste

    There is no doubt that fluoride helps fight cavities, but Stony Brook oral biologist Dr. Israel Kleinberg has developed what he believes is a better cavity- fighting substance – and he now has evidence to support his theory. The results from a two-year study of the substance – called CaviStat – suggest that children who […]

  • New Cavity-Fighting Agent Shows Promise

    NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – An experimental cavity-fighting toothpaste may be better at preventing tooth decay and cavities than traditional fluoride toothpaste, according to a study. The new agent does not contain any fluoride, which has been the cornerstone of cavity prevention for decades. The product, called CaviStat, contains the amino acid arginine as well […]

  • What Are They Drinking in New York City?

    New York is known for its food niche stores: The Hummus Place. The Doughnut Plant. The Dumpling Man. Even a spot dedicated solely to rice pudding. But this week, a store in the East Village went a step further: It sells New York City tap water. Not just any tap water, insist the owners of […]

  • Niagara Mohawk plants among New York’s top polluters

    SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Niagara Mohawk power plants spewed more than 5.78 million pounds of toxic chemicals into the environment in 1998, according to a report the utility filed with the federal government. The toxic emissions, 97 percent of which came from the Huntley and Dunkirk coal-fired power plants near Buffalo, establish Niagara Mohawk as one […]

  • C8 Science Panel Quarterly Newsletter #7

    The C8 Science Panel was chosen to determine whether a probable link exists between C8 and any human disease as part of a class action settlement of a lawsuit involving releases of a chemical known as C8 from DuPont’s Washington Works in Wood County, West Virginia. The Science Panel is made up of three scientists […]