Highlights Exhausted printer cartridge’s toner (PCt) powder as adsorbent for fluoride removal. It is a waste-to-wealth concept of reusing of remaining toner powder. This carbon ferric composite (toner) has 60 mg/g adsorption capacity. It shows the physical adsorption process between PCt and fluoride ions. Abstract Due to the broad adoption of electronic and electrical equipment and […]
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Welcome to the Fluoride Action Network News Archive. The FAN News Archive serves as an historical repository for fluoride news stories, positive or negative. Since FAN catalogs all news stories on fluoride, our news section remains a reliable database of all published fluoride news.
Our news database is categorized by country, state/province, and industry. This collection of articles is constantly being updated with the most recent global news on fluoride-related issues and events.
Benchmark: Li-ion battery boom driving fluorspar demand.
Fluorspar demand from the lithium-ion battery sector is expected to exceed 1.6 million tonnes by 2030, representing a significant portion of the overall market, according to Benchmark’s new Fluorspar Market Outlook. This mineral, primarily composed of calcium fluoride (CaF2), holds potential beyond its traditional uses in refrigerants, steelmaking and aluminum production. Fluorspar is mainly produced […]
Unusual bridging fluorine discovered in one-of-a-kind interhalogen ion – [Br4F21] –
For the first time, chemists have synthesised an interhalogen compound exhibiting a unique central fluorine atom coordinated by four BrF5 groups.1 The one-of-a-kind interhalogen ion in [NMe4][Br4F21]·BrF5 represents the first example of a central tetracoordinated fluorine bridging to neither metal nor hydrogen atoms. Tetracoordinated fluorine atoms are known in ionic compounds, for example in CaF2. […]
Newby Teas: Why A Safe, Transparent Alternative In Today’s Global Tea Economy Is Vital.
FAN Note: This article contains some good information about fluoride in tea. For nations across the globe, the tea trade is seen as a powerful driver of the economy. In addition to the industry’s unlimited offerings that have been able to satisfy consumers’ every whim, tea has also garnered the reputation that it is a […]
IADR Position Statement on Community Water Fluoridatio
“IADR encourages dental health professionals to sensitize the public about the benefits of CWF to ensure sustained municipal water fluoridation…” Position Statement on Community Water Fluoridation Authors: L.G. Do, J.A. Cury, P. James, P.A. Mossey, F.V. Zohoori, C.H. Fox, and M.K.S. Charles-Ayinde The International Association for Dental Research (IADR) supports community water fluoridation as a […]
Breakthrough research could destroy ‘forever chemicals’
Chemists have made a major advancement in efforts to break down certain so-called forever chemicals, according to headline-grabbing new research that still comes saddled with notable caveats, including scalability. Northwestern University researchers announced yesterday that they had pinpointed a method to break apart a group of PFAS compounds without using either extreme temperatures or energy […]
Top 20 countries in population potentially affected by fluoride concentrations in groundwater greater than 1.5mg/L.
The following information comes from: Podgorski, J., Berg, M. Global analysis and prediction of fluoride in groundwater. Nature Communications 13, 4232 (2022). Read the full-text study at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31940-x (also in pdf) Excerpts: Table 1. Top 20 countries in population potentially affected by fluoride concentrations in groundwater greater than 1.5mg/L. Open in a separate window Rank […]
Fluorinated Materials as Positive Electrodes for Li- and Na-Ion Batteries
Abstract Fluorine is known to be a key element for various components of batteries since current electrolytes rely on Li-ion salts having fluorinated ions and electrode binders are mainly based on fluorinated polymers. Metal fluorides or mixed anion metal fluorides (mainly oxyfluorides) have also gained a substantial interest as active materials for the electrode redox […]
A new biosynthesis method has been developed to produce antibiotics from natural substances
A research team with members from Goethe University Frankfurt and the University of Michigan in the USA is using bacterial biosynthesis to produce an antibiotic containing fluorine –The technology is being commercialized by a startup Goethe University Frankfurt image: Scientists working at Goethe University Frankfurt have created an enzyme capable of producing fluorinated antibiotics via a […]
PFOA in rain worldwide exceeds EPA advisory level
Amounts of PFAS in precipitation called “practically irreversible” Credit: Shutterstock Even in remote areas, precipitation contains levels of PFOA higher than the EPA recommends for drinking water, reserachers say. Rain and snow around the world contain higher concentrations of a toxic, persistent industrial chemical than the US Environmental Protection Agency’s advisory level for the substance […]