[N.J.] Senate Panel Approves Water Fluoridation Bill

Fluoride would be added to New Jersey's public water supply under a bill that passed the Senate's health committee yesterday over the objections of environmental advocates, utility companies and some parents.

But the prospects of the New Jersey Public Water Supply Fluoridation Act are in doubt. A spokesman for Assemblywoman Nellie Pou (D-Passaic), chairwoman of the Assembly Appropriations Committee, confirmed she would not hold a hearing on the bill, which has stalled since the Assembly Health Committee approved it in February and sent it to her committee for consideration.