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  • A teleconference with regulatory officials on April 9, 2015

    For the previous months leading up to this event, Jill Jennings-McElheney of the Northeast Georgia Children’s Environmental Health Coalition worked to arrange a teleconference meeting with officials in U.S. regulatory agencies to dialogue with non-government participants on issues pertaining to the toxicology and science of fluoride (and if possible, the ethics of their decision-making). This […]

  • Community water fluoridation predicts increase in age-adjusted incidence and prevalence of diabetes in 22 states from 2005 and 2010

    Abstract Community water fluoridation is considered a significant public health achievement of the 20th century. In this paper, the hypothesis that added water fluoridation has contributed to diabetes incidence and prevalence in the United States was investigated. Panel data from publicly available sources were used with population-averaged models to test the associations of added and […]

  • Fluoridation Debate Rages On Across US

    Fluoridation–to date, there isn’t a clear consensus regarding the real benefits or dangers of this intervention among dental professionals and members of the public. This issue appeared in the news again after several communities across the United States began debating, again, whether fluoride should continue to be added to public drinking water systems. While it’s […]

  • State’s dentists sink teeth into Healdsburg fluoride fight

    In a small and charming tourist-destination town in northern Sonoma County, a local ballot measure has pitted a tiny but dogged band of activists against an unusual enemy: dentists. Healdsburg is the site of a battle over water fluoridation that has drawn local political groups and the California Dental Association into its orbit. Measure T […]

  • Worried about Hull water fluoridation plans? Here’s what you need to know

    Health bosses will decide next week if they will make a formal request to Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt to add fluoride to the city’s water supply. Around 250,000 people in the city and between 49,000 and 87,000 people in the East Riding including Hornsea, Withernsea, Anlaby, Willerby and Dunswell could be affected. Members of Hull’s […]

  • Help FAN Make History; New video posted

    Our current totals stand at $131,854 from 562 supporters, which means we need 38 more donations – or supporters to reach the 600 donor milestone that will trigger a $5000 donation from a very generous supporter, and 138 more to reach 700 donors, which will trigger another $5000.     The Fluoride Action Network has laid the groundwork for a momentous achievement.  On February 20 we will learn if the […]

  • “Impurifying our precious bodily fluids”

    In the 1964 movie Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, General Jack D. Ripper launches a nuclear strike against the Soviet Union to stop the Communist infiltration that he fears will “sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.” In the 1960s, moviegoers instantly recognized that Ripper’s […]

  • Tauranga: Focus on fluoride, July 3, 2pm – 4pm

    Mandatory fluoridation of all New Zealand water supplies is being signaled by the government proposal to shift responsibility of fluoridisation from local councils to district health boards, says Fluoride Free New Zealand Tauranga Convenor Tracy Livingston. “It will mean mandatory fluoridation for the whole of New Zealand as the DHBs are contractually obligated to carry […]

  • Fluoride Debate in Meadville, PA

    (Source: Mike Crowley, Meadville Tribune May 5, 2017) Meadville, PA — Local advocates for and against water fluoridation teamed up with well-known experts from the international fluoridation debate scene in a confrontation before a standing-room only audience Thursday evening at the Lew Davies Community Center. The battle pitted fears of dangerous health consequences against warm reassurances […]

  • FAN is Now Suing the EPA to End Fluoridation

    It’s official: the Fluoride Action Network–along with a coalition of environmental and public health groups–has filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in response to their denial of our petition under Section 21 of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) seeking a […]