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Philomath Dentists Begin Advocating for a Return to Flouride
But the Philomath City Council remains steadfast in its decision to keep flouride out of drinking water
By: Christen McCurdy
August 24, 2011--The two doctors who spearheaded the effort to add fluoride to Philomath's drinking water 25 years ago are now taking action to bring it back.
Dr. David Grube said the group – which doesn't have a name yet – will meet next Monday with the intention of putting the issue before the public to decide upon.
“The city took a straw poll, and of the respondents, 70 percent said they did want fluoride in the water, and yet the city council ignored them,” Grube said.
At its Aug. 8 meeting, the Philomath City Council announced that the city would stick to its earlier decision to de-fluoridate the water supply. The council originally voted on the issue in May and has since received numerous public comments on the issue.
City manager Randy Kugler said the city had been adding hydrofluosilicic acid to treat its drinking water, and did not replace it after using up the last canister in June. He declined to comment on the issue.
Philomath mayor Ken Schaudt was not available for comment for this story, and did not respond to the Lund Report's requests for comment for a previous story on this issue.
The Aug. 8 meeting minutes have not yet been posted to the city's website. According to an article in the Corvallis Gazette-Times, Schaudt read a list of 10 reasons he stuck by his prior vote to discontinue the use of fluoride in drinking water – chief among them freedom of choice, as well as environmental concerns and the potential unknown health effects of fluoride.
“He ignored all the doctors in town and the scientists,” Grube said of Schaudt. “He also said he didn't think the citizens of the community were smart enough to be able to vote on it.”..........
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Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 08/24/2011 - 19:01.
Please let your community know WHICH of "all the doctors in town and the scientists" has ever run a test on any single one of the community "patients" (because you're all patients if you're all being medicated), to follow up for possible fluoride overload. Please let your community know where the tests were run. The community should understand that there is NO way to obtain a simple, accurate, routine test for fluoride to determine if one has an overload of it, and there are no doctors following fluoride levels. Please let your community also know that there are two tests that are commonly used to determine fluoride levels in water. One is ISE, which is cheap and inaccurate. The other is Ion Chromatography, which is expensive and will give accurate readings of fluoride, in excess of 100 mg/L of the ISE testing.
Mary Sparrowdancer
But the Philomath City Council remains steadfast in its decision to keep flouride out of drinking water
By: Christen McCurdy
August 24, 2011--The two doctors who spearheaded the effort to add fluoride to Philomath's drinking water 25 years ago are now taking action to bring it back.
Dr. David Grube said the group – which doesn't have a name yet – will meet next Monday with the intention of putting the issue before the public to decide upon.
“The city took a straw poll, and of the respondents, 70 percent said they did want fluoride in the water, and yet the city council ignored them,” Grube said.
At its Aug. 8 meeting, the Philomath City Council announced that the city would stick to its earlier decision to de-fluoridate the water supply. The council originally voted on the issue in May and has since received numerous public comments on the issue.
City manager Randy Kugler said the city had been adding hydrofluosilicic acid to treat its drinking water, and did not replace it after using up the last canister in June. He declined to comment on the issue.
Philomath mayor Ken Schaudt was not available for comment for this story, and did not respond to the Lund Report's requests for comment for a previous story on this issue.
The Aug. 8 meeting minutes have not yet been posted to the city's website. According to an article in the Corvallis Gazette-Times, Schaudt read a list of 10 reasons he stuck by his prior vote to discontinue the use of fluoride in drinking water – chief among them freedom of choice, as well as environmental concerns and the potential unknown health effects of fluoride.
“He ignored all the doctors in town and the scientists,” Grube said of Schaudt. “He also said he didn't think the citizens of the community were smart enough to be able to vote on it.”..........
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Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 08/24/2011 - 19:01.
Please let your community know WHICH of "all the doctors in town and the scientists" has ever run a test on any single one of the community "patients" (because you're all patients if you're all being medicated), to follow up for possible fluoride overload. Please let your community know where the tests were run. The community should understand that there is NO way to obtain a simple, accurate, routine test for fluoride to determine if one has an overload of it, and there are no doctors following fluoride levels. Please let your community also know that there are two tests that are commonly used to determine fluoride levels in water. One is ISE, which is cheap and inaccurate. The other is Ion Chromatography, which is expensive and will give accurate readings of fluoride, in excess of 100 mg/L of the ISE testing.
Mary Sparrowdancer
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