[Rachel’s introduction: “The Precautionary Principle dictates that fluoride, now shown to alter the brain at low levels, should cease being added to water supplies.”] Dr. Vyvyan Howard, a prominent fetal toxicologist said in a recent Canadian TV interview that current brain/fluoride research convinces him that we should stop water fluoridation. Dr. Howard, President of the […]
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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.
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Don’t Drink The Water! Bottled Water… That Is.
Bottled water may be contributing to tooth decay in your children. Tooth decay is thriving in Amarillo children, according to local dentists who say the are seeing more children with cavities and decay than ever before. Some parents are unintentionally depriving their children of fluoride and may not even know it. Dentist Chris Brady, says […]
William Maas, CDC’s Oral Health Director Steps Down
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced last week that Dr. William Maas, director of the Division of Oral Health, will transition to other responsibilities within the agency. According to a CDC statement, Dr. Maas, who has been director for 10 years, has requested to continue to serve “from a different vantage point.” […]
Final Report: The Development of an Indigenous Fluoride Filter
EPA Grant Number: SU833551 Title: The Development of an Indigenous Fluoride Filter Investigators: Cumberbatch, Toby , Ponce, Beatrix , Batiir, Blandina , Berger, David , Atipoka, Faustina , Momade, Francis , Ayamgah, Gilbert , Freed, Leah , Volk, Lindsay , Nyarku, Michael , Pervez, Nadia , Rana, Sikha , Venugopal, Varsha Institution: The Cooper Union […]
Fluoride’s Impact on Brain, A Focus of Two Conferences
NEW YORK, July 31, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ — – New science indicating fluoride’s dangers to the brain and other organs will be presented by prominent fluoride research scientists during back-to-back conferences of the International Society for Fluoride Research (ISFR) and the Fluoride Action Network (FAN) in Toronto August 7-11. According to ISFR conference organizer, […]
CDC: Community Water Fluoridation Now Reaches Nearly 70 percent of U.S. Population
Nearly 70 percent of U.S. residents who get water from community water systems now receive fluoridated water, according to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The proportion of the U.S. population receiving fluoridated water, about 184 million people, increased from 62.1 percent in 1992 to 69.2 percent in 2006, said the […]
Towns question fluoride use
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.-The great American assault on tooth decay began here 63 years ago, earning Grand Rapids a special place in the annals of dental history: the first city in the world to fluoridate its public water system. So it is more than a little head-scratching that fluoride, the chemical widely credited with dramatically cutting […]
National Kidney Foundation drops support of fluoridation
The ADA lost an ally in the water-fluoridation debate when the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) changed its supportive stance on June 7. The foundation’s name has since been removed from the ADA’s Fluoridation Facts compendium. In a recent position paper, the NKF said that it would be prudent to monitor the fluoride intake of patients […]
Kidney Foundation Drops Fluoridation Support
Fluoride may damage bones of kidney patients NEW YORK, June 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The National Kidney Foundation withdrew its support of water fluoridation citing the 2006 National Research Council (NRC) report indicating that kidney patients are more susceptible to fluoride’s bone and teeth-damaging effects. The kidney-impaired retain more fluoride and risk skeletal fluorosis (an arthritic-type […]
AWWA Warned Not to Remove or Destroy Evidence for Water Fluoridation Injury Legal Actions
Ellijay, GA: June 9, 2008 – The largest association of water professionals in the world has been notified not to destroy, remove, or tamper with documents or video recordings in its possession that may be used in legal actions on behalf of persons injured by drinking fluoridated water. Robert Reeves, an attorney whose work helped […]