• Fluoridation’s effectiveness has declined to almost nothing over the past 50 years• Authoritative review finds less than 4% reduction in tooth decay• Only about “one quarter of a tooth” reduction• Stopping fluoridation is now a “No Brainer”: Confirmed risk of lowering child IQ and no significant benefit to teeth.  What’s the point?The Cochrane Collaboration […]

TAKE ACTION NOW!Decision-makers and water operators around the country are already taking action in response to last week’s federal court ruling deeming water fluoridation an “unreasonable risk” to the health of children. The ruling provides a very thorough opinion by the federal court, and is based upon extensive scientific research–including a systematic review by the […]

The ruling requires the EPA to take regulatory action to eliminate the risk, in a decision that could end the use of water fluoridation chemicals throughout the U.S.After a precedent-setting 7-year legal battle in federal court, an historic ruling by the United States District Court of the Northern District of California has ordered the U.S. Environmental Protection […]

History has been made. After 7 years of pursuing legal action against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over the risk posed to the developing brain by the practice of water fluoridation, the United States District Court of the Northern District of California has just ruled on behalf of the Fluoride Action Network and the plaintiffs in our precedent-setting court […]

The government review comes as a federal judge is about to rule on whether water fluoridation poses a neurotoxic hazard to human health.A landmark National Toxicology Program (NTP) report on fluoride neurotoxicity has confirmed what experts have long suggested: that fluoride is comparable to lead in its ability to lower IQ in children, according to the Fluoride […]