City-by-city: Does your municipality use fluoride to treat its drinking water?
Those cities and unincorporated areas that use and don't use fluoride to treat drinking water is fairly evenly split in Palm Beach County.
Fort Pierce Utilities Authority latest utility to stop adding fluoride to drinking water
The FPUA joined a growing list of utilities on the Treasure Coast that have stopped adding fluoride to their drinking water.
Yes, Fluoride in Your Drinking Water Is a Good Thing
If you’ve got a mouthful of healthy teeth, you can probably thank some kind of combo of good genes, a solid brushing routine—and the presence of fluoride in your drinking water. Since the 1940s, adding the mineral to the public water supply has been the norm in many places throughout the US.
Fluoride in drinking water? From Vero Beach to Fort Pierce to Hobe Sound, here’s what’s on tap
Some cities in Indian River County, St. Lucie County, Martin County stopped adding fluoride to drinking water due to Florida Surgeon General’s concerns
Arkansas dentists oppose bills that would remove guarantee of fluoride in drinking water
The Arkansas State Dental Association is watching — and opposing — a pair of bills filed in the Arkansas legislature that would undo guaranteed fluoride in drinking water. The big picture: Fluoride in water became a hot topic recently after a federal judge in September ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to further regulate it over concerns that high levels could hurt the intellectual development of children.
Fort Pierce removes fluoride from drinking water
After a long-standing ordinance was repealed in St. Lucie County this week, Fort Pierce's utility department announced Friday that they have "immediately discontinued" adding fluoride to its drinking water.
Does Palm Beach County treat its drinking water with fluoride and will that change?
There is little appetite in Palm Beach County to stop treating water with fluoride, even if Florida Surgeon General Joseph ...
Is fluoride in tap water safe? Florida officials raise concerns. Here's what the science says
Fluoride is added to water systems of more than two-thirds of Americans. Some Florida cities banned it for health concerns.
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Melbourne to stop adding fluoride to drinking water
After three hours of impassioned pleas and dueling science among dozens of dentists, the Melbourne City Council voted early ...
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Lakeland officials set a February date to debate whether to add fluoride to city's water
The federal report linked high levels of fluoride in drinking water above 1.5 mg/L and total exposure in foreign countries with lower IQs in children, as USA Today reported. Critics of the study ...
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In Florida, a rebellion against fluoride is winning
While medical associations have dismissed the studies showing neurocognitive harm as irrelevant when examining fluoride concentrations used in drinking water, a federal judge in September ...
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A Kansas town's fight over whether to put fluoride in drinking water sheds light on a national debate
The debate in Abilene, Kansas, could be a precursor to other communities considering the move because members of the incoming ...