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  • Greenville Water System cuts back on fluoride

    The Greenville Water System has reduced the amount of fluoride in its drinking water to reflect new federal guidelines. The move by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Health and Human Services was based on new science which concluded that less fluoride is warranted because there are other sources of fluoride today. […]

  • Add fluoride to city water? No.

    Claims that water fluoridation is safe and effective cannot withstand independent scrutiny. Nobel Laureate Dr. Arvid Carlsson, who led the successful campaign to defeat fluoridation in Sweden in the 1970s, describes it as “an obsolete practice.” While most Americans drink fluoridated water, the vast majority of people worldwide do not. Yet, according to WHO figures, […]

  • Mansfield prepares to dive into fluoride issue

    MANSFIELD — Fifty years after attempts were made to add flouride to Mansfield’s water supply, the city remains one of the two largest Ohio cities with no fluoridation program. Springfield is the other. Some city officials want to join the ranks of the fluoridated to protect the teeth of future generations. Before anything can happen, […]

  • Yellow Springs: Fluoridation forum coming

    At Village Council’s May 3 meeting, Council members agreed to this summer sponsor a public forum addressing whether to continue fluoridating Village water, in an attempt to present both sides of the issue and examine recent research. “Tonight we’re discussing the next steps rather than the content,” said Council President Judith Hempfling, who proposed the […]

  • Council asked to halt fluoridation of water

    VALPARAISO — Instead of convincing the city to halt the use of fluoride in its water system as he had hoped, Gary Foreman was asked to do what he already is doing: lead the public discussion on the issue. Foreman, president of Native Sun Productions in Valparaiso, came to Monday’s City Council meeting asking that […]

  • Can You Get Too Much Fluoride?

    For 61 years it’s been dubbed the magic bullet. Fluoride has long been credited with helping prevent cavities. But too much fluoride can be hazardous to your health. It’s why most European countries refuse to add fluoride to their water and why our government requires a warning on the back of your toothpaste that if […]

  • Brainerd: It must be the water

    Thirty years after the Brainerd City Council ended its long fight against state-mandated fluoridation Mayor James Wallin makes a weekly trek to an unfluoridated city tap for drinking water. He won’t drink the city’s fluoridated water, labeling it a health threat. “The stuff is extremely hazardous and poisonous,” Wallin said of his city’s fluoridated water […]

  • West Maryland Cities Revisit Fluoride Issue

    CUMBERLAND – Crime, taxes and schools are the usual campaign fodder in municipal elections, but in two Western Maryland cities the burning topic this spring is one long ago settled in most communities without debate: fluoride. Barring a last-minute court ruling, Cumberland voters are to decide May 16 whether to repeal a decade-old ban on […]

  • Use of fluoride in water supply raises questions

    UNION BRIDGE — Bret Grossnickle never thought much about the fluoride compounds he puts into the Westminster water system until a stranger called the water department asking where the city gets its fluoride. In light of Sept. 11 and a greater concern for homeland security, Grossnickle wondered why someone would want to know where the […]

  • Health department warns about flouride

    The Carroll County Health Department has sent a letter to Carroll County health professionals, asking them to warn parents against giving fluoridated water to infants. The letter, sent to all county pediatricians, family practitioners, obstetricians, dentists and the Carroll Hospital Center Birthing Center, states that the American Dental Association has released new guidelines on fluoride […]