The number of children with tooth discoloration from too much fluoride increased from the 1930s to the 1980s, according to a recent study, possibly because fluoride is in more oral-care products. The tooth discoloration, called fluorosis or enamel fluorosis, ranges from white streaks or spots on the teeth to pitting and discoloration of the tooth’s […]
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.
U.S. population receiving fluoridated public drinking water by state: 1992 & 2000
Table 1. Number of persons and percentage of the population receiving optimally fluoridated water through public water systems (PWS) by states, 1992-2000. State People receiving fluoridated water People served by PWS 2000 percentage fluoridated 1992 percentage fluoridated Alabama• 3,967,059 4,447,100 89.2% 82.6% Alaska 270,099 489,371 55.2% 61.2% Arizona 2,700,354 4,869,065 55.5% 49.9% Arkansas+ 1,455,767 2,431,477 […]
More Propaganda from the CDC
Dear All, NYSCOF has forwarded to us this story from Health Scout (see below). It is interesting that the author of this piece (Adam Marcus) did get quotes from both sides, and that is good. However when he gave his readers references for more information he gave the CDC site and the ADA site but […]
CDC’s William Maas: Telebriefing transcript on fluoridated water Q & A
CDC Telebriefing Transcript Two CDC Reports Present New Data: Fluoridated Drinking Water and Women With Diabetes February 21, 2002 MS. Coffin: Hi, everyone. Thank you very much for calling in today. We’re going to be discussing two CDC reports that were released today in the MMWR. The first one will be Populations Receiving Optimally Fluoridated […]
“Impurifying our precious bodily fluids”
In the 1964 movie Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, General Jack D. Ripper launches a nuclear strike against the Soviet Union to stop the Communist infiltration that he fears will “sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.” In the 1960s, moviegoers instantly recognized that Ripper’s […]
Fluoridation Gets Flushed on Election Day
NEW YORK, Nov. 12 /PRNewswire/ — The following press release was issued today by the New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation: Voters on November 6, 2001, rejected fluoridation in several U.S. cities despite hundreds of thousands of dollars spent by fluoridation proponents in public relations campaigns. This adds to a growing list of cities […]
The Security Threat of Fluorosilicic Acid
A Sept. 26 New York Times article on the security of our water supplies is astounding in its misinformation. It states, “Poisoning the voluminous rivers and reservoirs nourishing cities would require truckloads of chemical or biological agents that would be difficult to produce and relatively easy to spot, experts say.” Well, guess what folks? There […]
Sulfuryl Fluoride Pesticide Tolerances: Your Urgent Help Needed
Dear All, For several months my wife Ellen has been troubled by the fact that the EPA is introducing a new and highly toxic fumigant for foodstuffs like raisins and walnuts. They are proposing to switch from ozone depleting methyl bromide to sulfuryl fluoride (SO2F2). As she researched the toxicity of SO2F2 she was appalled […]
Sierra Club Adopts Position on Fluoridation
Dear All, Mark this date on your calendars. This is the day the first major American environmental organization (one of the big 10) raised its head above the parapet in the continuing fluoridation saga. Others will surely follow and as they do it will become clearer and clearer that the days of fluoridation in the […]
Sierra Club Position on Mandatory Drinking Water Fluoridation
Note from Doris Cellarius, Co-Chair, Environmental Quality Strategy Team, Sierra Club: On Sept. 25, 2001 the Sierra Club Conservation Governance Committee adopted the following “position” on drinking water fluoridation. It was drafted and approved by the Environmental Quality Strategy Team (EQST) in response to many requests from Chapters and activists. The issue is of particular […]