FAN attorney Michael Connett asked regulatory agencies: what is the safe level of fluoride in water – when does the “safe” level turn into a toxic level?Not a single one of these agencies had an answer. If the agencies in charge of protecting American’s health can’t answer this basic question, then they can’t claim fluoride in […]

Dental and medical groups have promoted misleading and even false statements that downplay the evidence that fluoridation is likely lowering some children’s IQ. These groups oversimplify the debate, disregard key scientific evidence, and provide an incomplete view of recent findings. Below, FAN addresses misinformation and misstatements about the risk to child IQ from fluoride exposures […]

According to EPA data, fluoridated water accounts for the majority of #fluoride intake for all age groups, with the vast majority of the U.S. population getting more than half of their fluoride exposure from drinking water alone.In an attempt to avoid accountability from fluoride harm, fluoridation advocates have pointed their finger at other sources of […]

For nearly 25 years, the Fluoride Action Network has been the leading educational organization on fluoride toxicity. FAN is vigilant in monitoring government actions that threaten to impact the public’s exposure to fluoride and has proven capable of taking on the big battles and winning.Support from those who believe in this mission is crucial to […]

Florida Surgeon General, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, joined by Dr. Ashley Malin and Dr. Claire Stagg, spoke in Winter Haven, FL on Nov 22, 20224, advising that all communities statewide stop adding fluoride to drinking water.Highlight: Water Fluoridation Is “Public Health Malpractice” – Florida Surgeon General “It is public health malpractice and so we are issuing […]

The scientific evidence on the risks and benefits of fluoride in drinking water was extensively scrutinized across seven years of litigation in the case of Food & Water Watch v. EPA. In September, the Obama-appointed federal judge overseeing the case concluded that fluoridation “poses an unreasonable risk of reduced IQ in children.”One of the reasons […]

One month after this video presentation was given at the annual scientific conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE), the court issued its decision.  The court essentially agreed with the evidence and interpretations made in this video and ruled in favor of the citizen groups and against the EPA. The court issued a […]

“If we were to use the standard of certainty for regulating environmental chemicals then virtually every regulation we have today to protect the public from toxic chemicals would disappear overnight. You virtually never have certainty as to the dose that causes the harm. Thats the purpose of risk assessment. How do you best navigate the […]