THE FLUORIDATION of public water systems in the U.S. since 1945 is often hailed as one of the great public-health advances of the century. Today, many children reach adulthood without a single cavity. But now health researchers are questioning whether Americans, particularly children, may have too much fluoride in their diets. The U.S. Centers for Disease […]
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.
Varner et al. study: Brain damage in rats from fluoridated water
An animal study links low levels of fluoride in water to brain damage [Brain Res. 784, 284 (1998)]. The research was a collaboration among a chemist and two psychologists (including lead author Julie A. Varner) at Binghamton University, Binghamton, N.Y., and an EPA neurotoxicologist. Twenty-seven rats were divided into three groups and for one year […]
Meat Produced by Advanced Meat/Bone Separation Machinery and Recovery Systems
SUMMARY: In 1994, the Food Safety and Inspection Service amended its regulations to recognize that product resulting from advanced meat/bone separation machinery and recovery systems comes within the definition of meat when these recovery systems are operated to ensure that the characteristics and composition of the resulting product are consistent with those of meat. The […]
Toothpaste warning labels concern parents
Last month, as 8-year-old Molly Statt stood in the bathroom brushing her teeth, something on the back of the tube of Crest caught her attention. She stopped brushing. Looking up at her father standing beside her, she asked, “Is this poison?” “Of course not,” Paul Statt reassured his daughter. “Then why does it say ‘poison’ […]
Toothpaste: How Safe?
Last month, as 8-year-old Molly Statt stood in the bathroom brushing her teeth, something on the back of the large-size tube of Crest caught her attention. She stopped brushing. Looking up at her father standing beside her, she motioned to the toothpaste and asked, “Is this poison?” “Of course not,” Paul Statt reassured his daughter. […]
Poultry Products Produced by Mechanical Separation and Products In Which Such Poultry Products Are Used
SUMMARY: The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is amending the Federal poultry products inspection regulations to prescribe: a definition and standard of identity and composition for the poultry product that results from the mechanical separation and removal of most of the bone from skeletal muscle and other tissues of poultry carcasses and parts of […]
Rat Studies Link Brain Cell Damage With Aluminum and Fluoride in Water
ANAHEIM, Calif. – A team of New York scientists said rat studies offer preliminary evidence that aluminum, when administered in drinking water, may be linked with behavior changes and damaged brain cells. The study, presented at the meeting here of the Society for Neuroscience, is the latest of several studies hinting at some link between […]
Is Science Censored?
“Publicity … would certainly follow,” fretted the editor of one top journal. “A possible general panic,” predicted a researcher. Both were explaining why a study linking childhood leukemia to fluorescent lights should not be published. That fear trumped the conclusion of other reviewers-scientists who evaluate whether a manuscript should be published in a journal-who called […]
Fluoride bioassay study under scrutiny
A recent animal study by the National Toxicology Program that failed to give fluoride a totally clean bill of health is now being questioned as being maybe too lenient on the widely used tooth decay preventative. Also, a government panel appointed to assess the risks and benefits of human exposure to fluoride and to put […]
Fluoride is not a nutrient
The full-article, with graphics, is online at http://fluoridealert.org/wp-content/uploads/passwater-1990.pdf Fluoride is essential for healthy and strong teeth, therefore fluoride is an essential nutrient – right? Wrong. wrong. wrong. Fluoride is not needed for strong, healthy teeth, fluoride is not an essential nutrient – in fact, fluoride is not even a nutrient. It does not nourish — […]