“I GOT all this equipment years ago and never thought I’d be using it for this,” Justin Ryan says as he takes a tape out of his camcorder. He has been using it to record the sick and dying animals on his farm and neighbouring farms near Askeaton, Co Limerick. Mr Ryan sent a copy […]
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.
Chemical & Biological Weapons. Fluorine chemicals. 1995 UN Monitoring and Verification of Iraq’s Compliance.
Note from FAN: Section C, cited below, of the 1991 UN Security Council Resolution 687, “Invites Iraq to reaffirm unconditionally its obligations under the Geneva Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare, signed at Geneva on 17 June 1925, and to […]
Interview with EPA’s Dr. William Marcus on NTP’s Fluoride/Cancer Study
The following is an interview with Dr. William Marcus, Senior Science Advisor in EPA’s Office of Drinking Water, concerning the National Toxicology Program’s animal study on fluoride & cancer. The interview is with Dr. Gary Null, and was aired on Null’s radio show (program #310) on March 10, 1995. Marcus: When I got a hold of the contractor report […]
Torrance Residents Wary of Mobil Plan to Lessen Risk of Toxic Cloud
When walls start shaking and dishes rattle ominously, Clifford Heise hurries outside his Torrance home to stare at the southern sky. “If it’s red, you know it’s Mobil,” he says, “and you think, ‘Quick, which way is the wind blowing?’ ” For hundreds who live near the mammoth Mobil Oil Corp. refinery in Torrance, the […]
Defluoridation of drinking water with pottery: effect of firing temperature.
Abstract Excessive fluoride (F) in drinking water should be removed, but simple, inexpensive methods of fluoride removal are not readily available. This study examines the F(-)-binding capacity of clay and clayware, especially the effect of the firing temperature on the F(-)-binding process. A series of pots were made from ordinary potter’s clay and fired at […]
ALBANY: Crucial support for Albany fluoridation withers
A non-binding resolution from the Common Council and a word from the mayor did what Gen. Jack D. Ripper’s fictional takeover of a military base could not: They put an end to fluoridation, at least in Albany. A day after Mayor Jerry Jennings signaled his opposition to fluoridation and two days after aldermen voiced that […]
Ecological Russian Roulette
NADVOITSY, Russia – The children of this town learn early not to smile. When they do, they show a ghastly array of blackened, splintered, rotting stumps where milk-white teeth might have been. An environmental plague has struck this northern land of lakes, no longer pristine, and thinning pine forests. The children of Nadvoitsy are its […]
Tarnished Aluminum Plant (but a Shiny Future?)
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ZIAR NAD HRONOM, Slovakia — Rudolf Camaj doesn’t quite know whether to trust the stories that one day the aluminum plant here will be so clean there might be an outdoor swimming pool for the workers. “It is almost unbelievable to us that the old factory will be replaced by a new factory that won’t […]
Chile: Evaluating a fluorosis hazard after a volcanic eruption
Abstract: The August, 1991 eruption of Mt. Hudson (Chile) deposited ash across southern Argentina and contributed to the deaths of thousands of grazing sheep. Early ash analysis revealed high levels of fluoride, a potential ash constituent toxic to humans and animals. In order to evaluate fluorosis as the cause of sheep deaths and to examine […]
Fluoride Poisoning Strikes Over 45 Million Chinese
BEIJING – Smog caused by widespread use of low-grade coal has caused more than 45 million Chinese to be affected by fluoride poisoning, an official report said Thursday. Flourosis, overexposure to flouride, is endemic in practically all Chinese communities. A recent conference of medical workers in Beijing reported that since 1986, only 4 million people […]