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• NTP Bioassay on Fluoride/Cancer (1990)

  In 1977, the U.S. Congress requested that animal studies be conducted to determine if fluoride can cause cancer. The result of the Congressional request was an extensive animal study conducted in the 1980s by the National Toxicology Program (NTP) and published in 1990. The main finding of NTP’s study was a dose-dependent increase in osteosarcoma (bone cancer) among the fluoride-treated male rats. 

• Interview with EPA’s Dr. William Hirzy About Fluoride & Cancer

  The following is an excerpt of Michael Connett’s interview with Dr. J. William Hirzy, Senior Vice President of EPA’s Headquarters Union in Washington DC. The interview took place on July 3, 2000, a couple days after Hirzy testified before the US Senate calling for an independent review of the tumor slides from the National Toxicology Program’s bioassay for fluoride. […]

• Fluoride & Liver Cancers in NTP Bioassay

  On October 28, 1988, Battelle Columbus Laboratories submitted its Final Report to the NTP concerning the results of the Mouse study. The principal finding of Battelle’s report was that a dose-dependent increase of a rare liver cancer (hepatocholangiocarcinoma) had occurred in the fluoride-treated male and female mice.

• Interview with EPA’s Dr. William Marcus on NTP’s Fluoride/Cancer Study

  The following is an interview with Dr. William Marcus, Senior Science Advisor in EPA’s Office of Drinking Water, concerning the National Toxicology Program’s animal study on fluoride & cancer.

• Fluoride/Osteosarcoma Link Is Biologically Plausible

  The “biological plausiblility” of a fluoride-osteosarcoma link is widely acknowledged in the scientific literature. The biological plausibility centers around three facts: 1) Bone is the principal site of fluoride accumulation, particularly during the growth spurts of childhood; 2) Fluoride is a mutagen when present at sufficient concentrations, and 3) Fluoride can stimulate the proliferation of osteoblasts (bone-forming cells).

• Part 1. FAN’s list of fluoride studies (by subject) submitted to SCHER. April 2009.

  PART 1. List of fluoride studies by SUBJECT, published since 2004, and submitted to SCHER. The following is part 1 of the submission from the Fluoride Action Network to the European Commissions’ Scientific Committee on Health and Environmental Risks (SCHER) in response to their solicitation for a “Call for Information” for scientific papers, reports, etc., […]

• An Examination of Statements by US Public Health Officials on Fluoride Toxicity: Part 2

  In this bulletin, we address a statement about the alleged dose that causes skeletal fluorosis made by Colorado’s Dental Director, Dr. Diane Brunson.

• Milwaukee: Alderman Bohl proposes legislation to stop Milwaukee’s fluoridation program

  New research shows that ingesting fluoride delivers health risks without benefit of less tooth decay which makes water fluoridation obsolete, unhealthy and a waste of money, and that is why I introduced legislation today calling for the end of Milwaukee’s water fluoridation program. Fluoride chemicals have been added to Milwaukee’s water supply since 1953 when […]

• Mother’s milk a major source of PFCs to infants

  Excerpt: … The breastfeeding lobby is sometimes reluctant to highlight breast-milk contamination because they don’t want women to have another excuse not to breastfeed. But despite the reassuring arguments to keep breastfeeding, I find myself unsettled. The amount of chemicals infants suckle through milk is not insignificant. Recent studies show that lactating mothers offload about […]

• Sulfuryl Fluoride – FAN’s Comments to EPA, March 18, 2002

  Sulfuryl Fluoride March 18, 2002, comments submitted to EPA on Dow AgroSciences petition to establish Fluoride and Sulfuryl fluoride tolerances for a large number (40) of raw and processed foods. (Federal Register, February 15, 2002) -See list of tolerances below – US EPA Docket control number PF-1068 Submitted by Paul Connett, Professor of Chemistry, St. […]