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Cronkite News has moved to a new home at cronkitenews.azpbs.org. Use this site to search archives from 2011 to May 2015. You can search the new site for current stories. Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012 By Jerilyn Forsythe Cronkite News WASHINGTON
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For all its renown as an engine of pharmaceutical and biotechnology progress, New Jersey has long lagged in what public health officials call one of the 10 biggest health advances of the last century: fluoridating its water. While 72 percent
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“We think the cost benefit is not there,” said Karen Alexander, the president of the association. Many opponents say their information has come online, from national groups like the Fluoride Action Network and Citizens for Safe Drinking Water, which argue
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Earlier this year, officials in Pinellas County in Florida decided to remove the cavity-fighting chemical from its water supply. Was it a mistake? The government has been drugging us for years. Since the 1940s, municipalities across the United States have
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1945: Grand Rapids, Michigan, becomes the first U.S. city to fluoridate its drinking-water supply. Fluoridation, implemented as a means of reducing tooth decay, involves adding one part per million of fluoride to the water supply. (The optimum level, according to
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Public health officials say the evidence is solid that fluoridated drinking water helps protect teeth. Jim Cole/AP hide caption toggle caption Jim Cole/AP The federal Centers for Disease Control calls fluoridated water one of the top 10 public health achievements
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