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• Studies of Fluoride Supplements: No Evidence of Safety – No Benefit Either

  According to the Cochrane Oral Health Group, fluoride supplements fail to reduce tooth decay in primary teeth, permanent teeth cavity-reduction is dubious and health risks are little studied (1). Further, “When fluoride supplements were compared with topical fluorides or with other preventive measures, there was no differential effect on permanent or deciduous teeth,” write Cochrane […]

• Fluoride debate rages at Poughkeepsie council session

  POUGHKEEPSIE — Though typically a chemical that enters one’s mouth when drinking water or visiting the dentist, fluoride seemed to be something coming out of everyone’s mouth during Tuesday night’s City of Poughkeepsie Common Council meeting. Frank Mora, vice chairman of the city and town’s Joint Water Board has been criticized for supporting the decision […]

• Fluoridation Gets Flushed on Election Day

  NEW YORK, Nov. 12 /PRNewswire/ — The following press release was issued today by the New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation: Voters on November 6, 2001, rejected fluoridation in several U.S. cities despite hundreds of thousands of dollars spent by fluoridation proponents in public relations campaigns. This adds to a growing list of cities […]

• In Acrid Brazilian Factory Zone, A Fear of Disaster

  CUBATAO, Brazil – The factories on this swampland have turned the nearby town into a place of superlatives: in Cubatao, pollutants in the rain have reached some of the highest levels known in the world; the air is considered unfit for humans on a record number of days, and more cases of cancer, stillbirths and […]

• More Communities Throw out Fluoridation

  New York – December 21 — Legislators and officials are responding to newly published evidence of fluoride‘s adverse effects and rejecting fluoridation. This December, Juneau, Alaska and Martin County, Florida voted fluoride out of their drinking water. A Tennessee state legislator urged water companies to stop fluoridation. And the Vermont Department of Health sent a […]

• Take Precaution – Stop Fluoridation

  NEW YORK, Jan. 8 /PRNewswire/ — The Journal of Evidence-Based Dental Practice shows how the Precautionary Principle applies to fluoridation (1). “Some studies have raised concerns about the safety and efficacy of the practice [fluoridation],” write authors Tickner and Coffin of the Lowell, Massachusetts, Center for Sustainable Production. Precautionary Principle: “When an activity raises threats […]

• Government recommends lowering fluoride levels in water

  HOLLADAY — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced plans Friday to lower the recommended level of fluoride in drinking water for the first time in nearly 50 years, based on a fresh review of the science. After decades of convincing local health authorities to fluoridate water, federal health officials now say many […]

• NY State Health Commissioner: Water fluoridation reduces tooth decay

  The Feb. 8 article “Officials considering removal of fluoride from Schenectady water” did not explain that fluoride in drinking water greatly reduces cavities and is recommended by the state Health Department and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to promote good dental health. According to the CDC, for a community similar to Schenectady, […]

• Yorkshire: ‘Should fluoride be put in water?’

  A feasibility study is being carried out into whether fluoride should be added to drinking water in a bid to improve oral health in the district. Yorkshire and Humber Strategic Health Authority is to carry out the study on behalf of the whole region, but at the specific request of primary care trusts in Bradford […]

• EPA Recommends Raising Fluoride Limits

  WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 — The Environmental Protection Agency today proposed a new standard that would double the maximum permissible level of fluoride in the nation’s drinking water supplies. The new maximum, four milligrams to a liter of water, is well above levels that can cause dental fluorosis, which results in discoloration, mottling and pitting of […]