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 — […]
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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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Assessment of the chemical and physical properties of adari spring in Bahrain.
Abstract Water quality for Adari Spring in Bahrain has been investigated from November 1986 to November 1987. A total of 24 chemical and physical parameters including pH, electric conductivity, alkalinity, acidity, hardness, calcium, magnesium, sodium, potassium, sulphate, chloride, nitrate, phosphate, fluoride, iron, manganese, and total dissolved solids were analyzed. Parameters such as chloride, sodium, sulphate, […]
Fluoride to stay in Auckland water
Auckland’s water supply will continue to be fluoridated, the Auckland Regional Council decided at a works committee meeting yesterday. The decision to continue with fluoridation was taken after the meeting was disrupted by an unsuccessful attempt from a Browns Bay woman, Patricia Cheel, to present an anti-fluoridation petition. The chairman of the committee, Mr Gary […]
The Risks of Fluoride: The Long Awaited Verdict
If it were any other chemical, the news that fluoride may cause cancer would probably have been greeted with little more than mutters about the latest cancer causing substances of the week. But fluoride is no ordinary chemical. Added to public drinking water for 45 years in an effort to reduce tooth decay, it has […]
ACSH Considers Legal Action Against Attempts to Reclassify Fluoride
The American Council on Science and Health said last week that it will seek to restrain any federal agency from banning or seeking to reclassify fluoride from a non-carcinogen to a probable carcinogen. “If the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) tries to undermine the public confidence in fluoride, we will take steps to stop them,” said […]
ACSH Considers Legal Action Against Attempts to Reclassify Fluoride
The American Council on Science and Health said last week that it will seek to restrain any federal agency from banning or seeking to reclassify fluoride from a non-carcinogen to a probable carcinogen. “If the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) tries to undermine the public confidence in fluoride, we will take steps to stop them,” said […]
Weak Link on Fluoride and Cancer Is Backed
A panel of scientific experts today endorsed the findings of a Federal investigation showing that a compound widely used to fluoridate public water supplies may cause bone cancer in male rats. The panel found that the evidence inconclusively demonstrated a weak association between fluoride consumption and the bone cancer in male rats. Federally sponsored scientists […]
Congressman Proposes EPA Study on Cutting Hydrofluoric Acid Use
U.S. Rep. Mel Levine (D-Santa Monica) on Thursday announced a proposal that would require oil refineries nationwide, including four in Los Angeles County, to phase out the use of acutely hazardous hydrofluoric acid if a federal study finds a safer alternative. “Hydrofluoric acid is dangerous business, and I am deeply concerned by the deadly threat […]
Rat Study Reignites Dispute On Fluoride
Top health officials order experts to evaluate findings on cancer in test animals A long-smoldering dispute over the safety of fluoridating public water supplies has flared anew, forcing the nation’s top health officials to reevaluate the risks and benefits of using fluorides to reduce tooth decay. The latest review was triggered by a Congressionally mandated […]
Rat Study Reignites Dispute On Fluoride
A long-smoldering dispute over the safety of fluoridating public water supplies has flared anew, forcing the nation’s top health officials to reevaluate the risks and benefits of using fluorides to reduce tooth decay. The latest review was triggered by a Congressionally mandated study that recently reported evidence that high doses of fluoride may cause cancer […]