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OSSINING, N.Y. - The Ossining Water Department received a certificate of appreciation from the county's Board of Health Friday for treating its water supply with fluoride.
The county applauded Ossining and six other water suppliers for "protecting the public's health," the county said in a statement.
“Community water fluoridation is the single most effective public health measure available to prevent tooth decay in both adults and children,” said Westchester County Health Commissioner Dr. Sherlita Amler. “It is safe, effective and inexpensive and it allows all residents of a
community, regardless of their ability to pay for routine dental care, to benefit from the significant protection that fluoride offers."
Amler said 83 percent of Westchester residents receive fluoridated water.
"Water fluoridation saves money by reducing the cost of dental treatment among children and youth," she said. "Studies also have shown it can reduce tooth decay by 29 percent in children and by 25 percent in adults. And it’s been proven safe at the levels allowed in public water supplies.”
The other water suppliers who received certificates are Northern Westchester Joint Water Works, New Castle
Stanwood Water District, Scarsdale Water Department, White Plains Water Bureau, Westchester Joint Water Works and Yorktown Consolidated Water District #1. They were recognized for maintaining and upgrading their fluoridation equipment. The certificates were presented at the Westchester County Board of Health
meeting today in White Plains.
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This is a publicity stunt taxpayers fund because our government needs to protect fluoride's image. Aren't water engineers supposed to get fluoride levels correct? Isn’t that their job? Do they get chlorine or sodium hydroxide awards too? No, they don’t.
Many communities are rejecting fluoridation because science shows ingesting fluoride is ineffective at reducing tooth decay, harmful to health, unethical and a waste of money.
People need to demand that fluoridation be stopped! Your local water department will probably thank you because fluoridation chemicals are among the most hazardous, toxic chemicals on the planet.
The only beneficiaries are those corporations that sell fluoride products. As long as you don't know fluoride is harmful, you'll keep buying into fluoridation schemes.
Many communities in NYS have rejected and stopped fluoridation, including the capital city of Albany and Rockland, Nassau & Suffolk counties. Yet their cavity rates are better than most those in more fluoridated NYS counties
YOu should join these progressive communities and demand that your government stop wasting your money on ineffective, harmful fluoride chemicals and on fluoridation's delivery systems.
For more info: http://www.FluorideAction.Net