GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. — When Dr. Willard VerMeulen came here in 1924, this industrial city was filled with the penniless Dutch immigrants who turned out much of America’s furniture. As a dentist he had expected to see suffering, but even he was shocked by what he found. “Not one person in 10 had a mouth […]
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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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Hydrogen Fluoride Called A ‘Bhopal’ Gas, Say Group, Physicist
Hydrogen fluoride could be America’s Bhopal gas, according to an environmental group and an Energy Department physicist studying the behavior of hazardous chemicals when they are spilled. The pair on Thursday likened the threat posed by the chemical to that of methyl isocyanate, which leaked from Union Carbide’s Bhopal, India, plant in December 1984 and […]
Nader Says EPA Underestimates Water Intake
WASHINGTON – The Environmental Protection Agency has set drinking water contamination standards that underestimate how much water some people drink, according to consumer activist Ralph Nader and an agency employees union. “This policy needs to be re-evaluated,” Nader said in a letter to EPA Administrator Lee M. Thomas released Saturday. Nader said EPA has set […]
The Science and Politics of Fluoride
Dental and medical groups have been battling anti-fluoridationists since the first dose of fluoride was metered into the water of Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1945. For decades, it seemed that dentistry was winning those battles – that science was prevailing over the rhetoric of the antifluoridationists. Today the battle lines are not so clearly drawn. […]
Vikane: Exterminator, 2 Employes Indicted in 2 Va. Deaths
Note from FAN: Vikane is Sulfuryl Fluoride, it’s molecular structure is: The Orkin Exterminating Co. Inc. and two of its employes were indicted today on two counts each of involuntary manslaughter in the deaths of a Southwest Virginia couple allegedly poisoned by a fumigant sprayed at their house, the Grayson County, Va., prosecutor said. A […]
Water Fluoridation Challenged
Fluoridation of water, long credited with the large decline in tooth decay in much of the world during recent decades, might actually have played only a minor role, an Australian public health researcher has concluded after reviewing many previous studies. However, an official of the American Dental Association challenged the interpretation, asserting that many studies […]
How much fluoride is too much?
The Environmental Protection Agency has stirred the hornet’s nest of fluoridation by seeking to double the maximum allowable amount of the mineral in the nation’s water supply – a move that is drawing sharp criticism as a possible health hazard. “I don’t think the law really allows them to do this,” says Jackie Warren, a […]
EPA Recommends Raising Fluoride Limits
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 — The Environmental Protection Agency today proposed a new standard that would double the maximum permissible level of fluoride in the nation’s drinking water supplies. The new maximum, four milligrams to a liter of water, is well above levels that can cause dental fluorosis, which results in discoloration, mottling and pitting of […]
NRDC: “No Justification” for Relaxing Fluoride’s Maximum Contaminant Level
WASHINGTON, June 20 /PRN/ — In a statement to the Center For Health Action, Jacqueline Warren, senior counsel for the Natural Resources Defense Council and a member of the National Drinking Water Advisory Council, expressed serious reservations about the legalities and evidence for proposing a 4-parts-per-million (ppm) standard for fluoride. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency […]
“Air Is Fluoridated”
WHEN THE TOPIC of fluoridation comes up, most people laugh at the poor unfortunate people who still think fluoridation is harmful. But most people don’t know about the seriousness of fluoride air pollution. In places like the Bay Area (San Francisco), where the air we breathe is fluoridated, it may not be a good idea […]