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  • FAN’s billboard campaign to end fluoridation

    If you want to help end fluoridation in NW Washington click here, https://www.facebook.com/HealthyWaterNW If your group wants to run this billboard, contact FAN To order a poster version of this billboard (without the Facebook address), contact FAN To see the scientific evidence that fluoride is neurotoxic and can lower IQ in children, go to FluorideACTION.net/issues/health/brain […]

  • Fluoridation May Not Prevent Cavities, Scientific Review Shows

    See original article If you’re like two-thirds of Americans, fluoride is added to your tap water for the purpose of reducing cavities. But the scientific rationale for putting it there may be outdated, and no longer as clear-cut as was once thought.   Water fluoridation, which first began in 1945 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and expanded […]

  • Martinsville. Hershey: Keep fluoride in water

    On July 14, Martinsville City Council will decide whether to remove fluoride from the city water supply for the first time in 50 years. According to West Piedmont Health District Director Dr. Jody Hershey, there are no benefits – health-related or financial – to removing fluoride from city drinking water. However, he said, there are […]

  • Newsweek’s Coverage of the Cochrane Review on Fluoridation

    Two weeks ago we told you about the new review of the effectiveness of fluoridation by the Cochrane Collaboration, which is considered to provide the gold standard in evidence based reviews of health science by doctors and researchers.  The authors found very little evidence that fluoride is effective in reducing dental decay, but did find […]

  • Are You Feeding a Brain Toxin to Your Babies?

    The Fluoride Action Network (FAN) launched a nationwide billboard and poster campaign warning parents that fluoride, served to over 270 million Americans in their tap water, and often mixed with infant formula, is classified as a chemical “with substantial evidence of developmental neurotoxicity” by the EPA. The billboards ask, “Do you really want your child […]

  • Put Some Adrenaline Into Fighting Fluoridation

    The Fluoride Action Network (FAN) launched a nationwide billboard and poster campaign warning parents that fluoride, served to over 270 million Americans in their tap water, and often mixed with infant formula, is classified as a chemical “with substantial evidence of developmental neurotoxicity” by the EPA. The billboards ask, “Do you really want your child to […]

  • CDC and ADA minimized fluoridation harm

    Documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveal that the CDC worked hand-in-hand with the American Dental Association (ADA) to plan campaigns to minimize findings that water fluoridation has a larger negative impact, primarily on African Americans, in terms of dental fluorosis, a tooth […]

  • Australian mainstream media demands water supply be fluoridated

    Rupert Murdoch run media The Daily Telegraph, in Australia, has launched a major push for federal and state government to override local councils and fluoridate all water supplies. This is despite the growing scientific evidence and public backlash against fluoridation. Studies are showing that the sodium fluoride in the water supply is linked to a host of […]

  • Rural water districts defy fluoridation

    Eureka Springs residents are facing a July 15 start date for fluoridation throughout the Carroll Boone Water District because despite opposition from customers in Eureka Springs, CBWD board members said they felt they had no choice but to comply with a mandate passed by the state legislature in 2011. But several rural water districts in […]

  • Port Angeles residents to get November nonbinding vote on fluoride in water

    Forty years ago, Port Angeles residents overwhelmingly voted against fluoridating their non-fluoridated drinking water. City Council members then kept the water as it was. In the Nov. 3 general election, citizens will be asked a similar question, with one big difference: Should the city stop injecting the mineral additive into the water system after doing […]