Excerpt: 1. Introduction As the second most important metal after steel, aluminum and its alloys are widely used in construction, transportation, electrical appliances, machinery, and other industries due to their excellent properties [1]. At present, 95% of the world’s aluminum companies use the Bayer process to treat bauxite ore in order to produce alumina and […]
News Archive
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.
Who should be St. Petersburg’s next mayor? We have an answer
Excerpts … Whoever takes charge after Mayor Rick Kriseman must also be up to other challenges… The race to replace Kriseman is crowded, with several solid candidates. But Ken Welch is the best choice to maintain the city’s momentum. Welch, 56, grew up in St. Petersburg. He graduated from Lakewood High School and the University […]
1080: Company was ‘taking shortcuts’ when worker ended up in coma after poisoning incident
Note from Fluoride Action Network: Molecular structure of highly toxic Sodium fluoroacetate (known as 1080). For more info, albeit outdated, click here A pest control company was under pressure to meet supply demands when it tried to make the active ingredient in the pesticide 1080 and a worker ended up in an induced coma. This […]
Inspiring and educating British children on oral health
In 2021 Colgate will help, inspire and educate 1.65 million children through Colgate’s professional and schools oral health education programmes. By providing the tools needed to motivate behaviour change, we can get children excited about maintaining their oral health and making it a routine part of their day. Dental practice programme 2021 Colgate will send Bright […]
Evaluation of Groundwater Quality for Human Consumption and Irrigation in Relation to Arsenic Concentration in Flow Systems in a Semi-Arid Mexican Region
Abstract The supply of drinking water to the population is an important challenge facing humanity, since both surface and underground sources present a great variability of water storage with respect to space and time. This problem is further aggravated in arid and semi-arid areas where rainfall is low and torrential, which makes groundwater the main […]
Windsor-Essex County Health Unit BOD’s statement on fluoridation
Community Water Fluoridation (CWF) Statement The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit’s Board of Directors recommends that the Province of Ontario amend the regulations of the Safe Drinking Water Act. The proposed amendment would require community water fluoridation for all municipal water systems, when source-water levels are below 0.7 mg/L, the Health Canada recommended level for optimal dental […]
Pani for Puri: Indian city becomes first to get 24/7 piped clean drinking water
‘Puri has now joined the elite group of international cities like London, New York and Singapore in supplying quality potable water’ Puri, a coastal city in eastern India’s Odisha, has become the first Indian city to get 24/7 clean drinking water (Getty Images) Puri has become the first Indian city to get clean drinking water […]
1080: ‘Extremely lucky to survive’: Company fined $275k for poisoning employee
Note from Fluoride Action Network: Molecular structure of highly toxic Sodium fluoroacetate (known as 1080). For more info, albeit outdated, click here A Rolleston-based pest bait manufacturing organisation has been fined $275,000 after an employee was poisoned and nearly lost his life. Pest Control Research Limited Partnership (PCR) appeared for sentencing in the Christchurch District […]
Large firms cut pollutant emissions in half over 5 years
SEOUL, July 28 (Yonhap) — Large companies in South Korea have more than halved their air pollutant emissions over the past five years amid the government’s anti-coal policies, a corporate tracker said Wednesday. Air pollutant emissions by 166 plants of 77 large businesses came to 139,112 tons in 2020, down 56 percent from 316,013 five […]
A naturally inspired, reusable system that purifies water and builds itself
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — In nature, the interaction of molecules at the boundary of different liquids can give rise to new structures. These self-assembling molecules make cell formation possible and are instrumental to the development of all life on Earth. They can also be engineered to perform specific functions — and now, a team of […]