Article ID: CBB164063111

The Environmental Critique of Water Fluoridation (2015)

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While people often associate the opposition to community water fluoridation with the extreme right, most people opposed to fluoridation were concerned about the impact that it might have on health and the environment. In the 1960s and 1970s, anti-fluoridationists frequently mentioned the possibility that fluoride would accumulate in our bodies and in our environment, leading to long-term health problems. They were assisted by a new generation of scientists, interested in toxicology and environmental health, who began publishing articles critical of water fluoridation. By the 1970s, the environmental critique of water fluoridation was having a significant impact. For example, in the late 1970s, the legislation mandating compulsory water fluoridation in Quebec was suspended, largely because of environmental concerns. The debate over water fluoridation is just one example of how Canadians became more concerned about the relationship between the environment and human health in the second half of the twentieth century.

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Authors & Contributors
Colin Hoag
Proulx, Jérôme
Khelfaoui, Mahdi
Pietz, David Allen
Ryan, L. P.
Ford, P. J.
Concepts
Public health
Water pollution
Water resource management
Water supply
Water purification
Science and government
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century
21st century
20th century, early
Places
Canada
Québec (Canada)
United States
Australia
Alberta, Canada
Yellow River (China)
Institutions
United States. Environmental Protection Agency
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