The outcome is far from certain but whatever happens the decision will also affect people living outside the town s boundaries.
Fluoride in well water ontario.
The town s council plans to vote on whether fluoride should be added.
He added i am concerned about the number of ontario communities reacting to paranoiac nonsense and junk science masquerading as information and choosing to remove fluoride from community drinking water without public discussion and despite the overwhelming body of scientific evidence in favour of fluoride and the support of hundreds of national and international authorities including.
It shouldn t be up to cities to decide to add fluoride to drinking water but provincial officials a canadian mayor says.
Within our service areas the level of fluoride in the water is adjusted to an optimal concentration of 0 7 mg l.
Windsor ont is bucking a national trend and looking at lifting its ban.
Water samples are collected daily too so that fluoride levels in the.
Are there standards for fluoride levels in drinking water.
In drinking water fluoride has no taste or odour.
Niagara region stopped in 1999 and the region of.
In 2012 london s city council reviewed its fluoridation policy which included a public participation meeting where all concerned parties were given the opportunity to provide information to council.
Health canada says it approves fluoride in drinking water and says 25 of ontario communities have decided to stop putting fluoride in their water.
Studies show that when fluoride is added to water at recommended levels in ontario and across the country it is not linked to any adverse health effects.
Ontario s drinking water standard for fluoride is 1 5 mg l.
In 2015 lowered the recommended amount of fluoride in drinking water supplies from up to 1 2 milligrams per liter to 0 7 milligrams per liter mainly to cut down on potential damage to.
Some water supplies contain fluoride naturally but others like lake ontario and hemlock lake contain fluoride but do not contain enough fluoride to be beneficial.
If your drinking water contains less than 0 7 mg l your child s dentist or pediatrician should evaluate whether your child could benefit from daily fluoride supplements.
It can only be detected through chemical testing.
The city of london started adding fluoride to its drinking water in 1967 after it was approved by a public plebiscite in 1966.
Xiv acute fluoride toxicity occurring from the ingestion of.
Drinking water needs to contain 0 7 mg l milligrams per liter of fluoride to reliably provide fluoride s oral health benefits.
Levels above 1 5 mg l must be reported to the local medical officer of health.
