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ADA urges National Toxicology Program to reconsider monograph
Association sends comments ahead of National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hearing Washington — The ADA is reaffirming its support of the safety of community water fluoridation and asking the National Toxicology Program to change its classification of fluoride from a presumed neurotoxin to an unknown neurotoxin. The Association shared this request with the […]
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TSCA Plaintiffs Charge New NTP Report Underestimates Fluoride’s Risks
The Fluoride Action Network (FAN), one of the groups suing EPA to bar drinking water fluoridation under TSCA, says the National Toxicology Program’s (NTP) draft monograph showing fluoride exposure can cause cognitive developmental harm in children underestimates risk, particularly at lower exposures, signaling the draft may not provide significant support for the group’s suit. Chris […]
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Fluoride’s danger to brain development is even worse than the NTP has acknowledged according to Fluoride Action Network
NTP review shows fluoridation a hazard to children’s brain development NEW YORK CITY, NY, US, October 15, 2020 /EINPresswire.com/ — The National Toxicology Program (NTP) has concluded in a major review that fluoride “is presumed to be a cognitive neurodevelopmental hazard to humans.” The NTP is the toxicology research division of the National Institute of […]
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Fluoride Is Neurotoxic At Low Levels Says Top US Government Science Program’s Review
“Fluoride is presumed to be a cognitive neurodevelopmental hazard to humans” according to the second draft report of the US National Toxicology Programme (NTP), that has just been released. The National Toxicology Program (NTP) is an inter-agency program run by the United States Department of Health and Human Services to coordinate, evaluate, and report on […]
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National Toxicology Program confirms fluoride a brain hazard, according to Fluoride Action Network
NEW YORK, Oct. 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — In 2019, the National Toxicology Program (NTP), the research arm for U.S. government agencies, performed the first systematic government review on fluoride’s neurotoxicity and concluded that it “is presumed to be a cognitive neurodevelopmental hazard,” according to Fluoride Action Network’s (FAN) director Paul Connett, PhD. This NTP review was sent […]
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National Toxicology Program Systematic Review: 3 New Documents
September 16. Draft NTP Monograph on the Systematic Review of Fluoride Exposure and Neurodevelopmental and Cognitive Health Effects*. **The September 6, 2019 draft monograph was peer reviewed by a committee convened by the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM). This current draft incorporates changes in response to that review and is being submitted […]
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Weak Link on Fluoride and Cancer Is Backed
A panel of scientific experts today endorsed the findings of a Federal investigation showing that a compound widely used to fluoridate public water supplies may cause bone cancer in male rats. The panel found that the evidence inconclusively demonstrated a weak association between fluoride consumption and the bone cancer in male rats. Federally sponsored scientists […]
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National Academies: NTP’s Conclusion about Fluoride Is Not Backed by Science
American Fluoridation Society Comments on This New Report WASHINGTON, March 11, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Last September, the National Toxicology Program (NTP) released a draft monograph concluding that “fluoride is presumed to be a cognitive neurodevelopmental hazard to humans.” Before finalizing its monograph, NTP asked a committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine […]
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Federal report finding fluoride lowers IQ of children reviewed by National Academy of Sciences
NEW YORK, March 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) just released an assessment of a draft report on fluoride neurotoxicity produced by the National Toxicology Program (NTP). The NAS suggested improvements to strengthen the report and heavily criticized NTP for ignoring evidence from animal studies and for inadequately addressing the human […]
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National Academies Completes Review of National Toxicology Program’s Draft Monograph on Fluoride and Neurodevelopmental and Cognitive Effects
WASHINGTON – Today the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine released its review of the National Toxicology Program’s (NTP) draft monograph Systematic Review of Fluoride Exposure and Neurodevelopmental and Cognitive Health Effects. The committee that wrote the National Academies report was tasked with reviewing the monograph and focused on evaluating whether evidence as presented in the monograph […]
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