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Newport requests fluoride delay
Concerns surfaced that the water district had offered no data showing benefits over health risks of adding element to H20.
By Brianna Bailey
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Newport Beach City Council voted unanimously Tuesday evening to send a letter requesting the water district delay the start of water fluoridation so they can evaluate resident’s concerns.
“This is 2007. Nobody dies of a cavity ,” said Newport Beach resident Dolores Otting in protest of the plan. “It’s a barbaric form of medicine to force us to swallow poison.”
Otting and several other area residents spoke out against the plan to begin water fluoridation out of concern for negative health effects. The anti-fluoride faction also expressed concern the water district had offered no data showing the benefits of fluoride over possible health risks.
“Not all the people here are going to say ‘yay’ to fluoride,” said Councilwoman Nancy Gardner. “ I know their concerns are very real. If we could ask for this delay I feel we’d be serving our residents very well.”
The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California plans to add fluoride at the Robert B. Diemer Treatment Plant in Yorba Linda Nov. 19, and the water district board agreed in 2003 to add enough fluoride to drinking water supplies to provide dental health benefits. The district provides 18% of Newport Beach’s drinking water.
District officials have advised the council municipal drinking water across the United states has undergone fluoridation for the past 60 years, but some residents at a council study session earlier this month expressed concern over the plan.
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Donna G. wrote on Oct 24, 2007 10:46 AM:
" To: ALL with ‘Common Sense’ to keep our drinking Waters CLEAN & SAFE. THE [MWD] ‘Directors’ announced so called ‘Fluoridation’ of Drinking/Tap Waters in greater Los Angeles and San Diego will get ‘FLUORIDE’ in their drinking/tap waters starting October 1, 2007. Politically appointed USA-EPA highest management is primarily in complicity to allow Silicofluorides to be sold and metered into our precious USA drinking waters. However, recently around 7,000 EPA professional CAREER Scientists, Toxicologists, and professional field workers signed a Petition to EPA top Management requesting ‘fluoridation’ be stopped. Read PR Announcement at: http://www.world-wire.com/news/0830050001.html "
NYSCOF wrote on Oct 24, 2007 4:31 AM:
" There's absolutely no evidence that fluoridation is safe and effective is reported in the October 6, 2007 British Medical Journal. Researchers scoured the literature, obtained 3200 fluoride/fluoridation studies and faound they failed to prove fluoridation is safe or effective and is probably, unethical. Tell Congress You Want Fluoridation to End here: http://www.FluorideAction.Net Currently, over 1,000 professionals have signed a statement saying fluoridation causes more harm than good and must end. Federal employees must be investigated for fostering this failed concept in the face of mounting evidence of harm. "
Concerns surfaced that the water district had offered no data showing benefits over health risks of adding element to H20.
By Brianna Bailey
Reader Feedback - Currently 2 comment(s) Comments
Newport Beach City Council voted unanimously Tuesday evening to send a letter requesting the water district delay the start of water fluoridation so they can evaluate resident’s concerns.
“This is 2007. Nobody dies of a cavity ,” said Newport Beach resident Dolores Otting in protest of the plan. “It’s a barbaric form of medicine to force us to swallow poison.”
Otting and several other area residents spoke out against the plan to begin water fluoridation out of concern for negative health effects. The anti-fluoride faction also expressed concern the water district had offered no data showing the benefits of fluoride over possible health risks.
“Not all the people here are going to say ‘yay’ to fluoride,” said Councilwoman Nancy Gardner. “ I know their concerns are very real. If we could ask for this delay I feel we’d be serving our residents very well.”
The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California plans to add fluoride at the Robert B. Diemer Treatment Plant in Yorba Linda Nov. 19, and the water district board agreed in 2003 to add enough fluoride to drinking water supplies to provide dental health benefits. The district provides 18% of Newport Beach’s drinking water.
District officials have advised the council municipal drinking water across the United states has undergone fluoridation for the past 60 years, but some residents at a council study session earlier this month expressed concern over the plan.
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There are 2 comment(s) comments on this story:
Donna G. wrote on Oct 24, 2007 10:46 AM:
" To: ALL with ‘Common Sense’ to keep our drinking Waters CLEAN & SAFE. THE [MWD] ‘Directors’ announced so called ‘Fluoridation’ of Drinking/Tap Waters in greater Los Angeles and San Diego will get ‘FLUORIDE’ in their drinking/tap waters starting October 1, 2007. Politically appointed USA-EPA highest management is primarily in complicity to allow Silicofluorides to be sold and metered into our precious USA drinking waters. However, recently around 7,000 EPA professional CAREER Scientists, Toxicologists, and professional field workers signed a Petition to EPA top Management requesting ‘fluoridation’ be stopped. Read PR Announcement at: http://www.world-wire.com/news/0830050001.html "
NYSCOF wrote on Oct 24, 2007 4:31 AM:
" There's absolutely no evidence that fluoridation is safe and effective is reported in the October 6, 2007 British Medical Journal. Researchers scoured the literature, obtained 3200 fluoride/fluoridation studies and faound they failed to prove fluoridation is safe or effective and is probably, unethical. Tell Congress You Want Fluoridation to End here: http://www.FluorideAction.Net Currently, over 1,000 professionals have signed a statement saying fluoridation causes more harm than good and must end. Federal employees must be investigated for fostering this failed concept in the face of mounting evidence of harm. "
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