Canada - Terrace, B.C. to keep fluoride program and reject call for referendum

Dr. Raina Fumerton (Northwest Medical Health Officer) and Coco Miller (from the First Nations Health Authority) after the Committee of the Whole meeting March. 10 where the benefits of fluoride were extolled.

— Image Credit: Josh Massey

Fluoride in Terrace tap water is here to stay and a call for the city to hold a referendum on the matter has been rejected.

Council’s decision was made following a Northern Health Authority presentation by chief medical health officer Dr. Raina Fumerton in which she applauded Terrace’s leadership in being one of just four municipalities still fluoridating water in the province.

Fumerton presented fluoride as an indisputable good for public health based on its ability to prevent tooth decay, discounting what she said are emotion-based arguments of those who think that the risks of fluoride are outweighed by the dangers..............