WORLD Environment Day is commemorated each year on June 5 as one of the principal vehicles through which the United Nations stimulates worldwide awareness of the environment and enhances political attention and action. The commemoration tomorrow is to deepen public participation on the need to preserve and enhance the environment. It is also about promoting […]
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.
Fluoride without a fight
CORNISH — Debbie McKnight remembers boasting as a child to classmates in neighboring Lewiston that she had no cavities. “They thought that was pretty cool. I nah-nah-nah-nah-nah-nah’d them right to death,” says Mc- Knight, now 42 and the mother of three children who, like their mother, have nearly cavity-free teeth. McKnight believes there is a […]
Utah a national leader by not fluoridating
Utahns consistently reject fluoride because we cut through the enormous endorsements and weigh the facts. We are not behind the times, but ahead of the 60 cities that bucked the system and rejected fluoride in the 1990s. We’re unique because we vote. Most cities are fluoridated by executive order. The task of unmasking this fluoride […]
High-fluoride water takes toll in Assam District
GUWAHATI: Thousands of villagers have been affected, many of them crippled for life, by drinking water containing excessive levels of fluoride, in some parts of Assam’s Karbi Anglong district, a report said. The worst-affected area was in the Tekelanguin where every fourth person has been affected by the hydro-fluorosia affecting a population of nearly one […]
High fluoride level in water causes havoc in Assam areas
GEETA DEY is in her early thirties, but she looks like a woman in her mid-50s. Bed-ridden most of the time, she spends her days in pain and misery. A victim of fluoride poisoning, Geeta needs help from others even to perform her routine chores. She is not alone. Hundreds of others in Assam’s hill […]
San Diego County Grand Jury Recommends Fluoridation
SAN DIEGO — The county grand jury recommended yesterday that local cities and water districts fluoridate their drinking water, saying the ever-controversial treatment is “safe and effective in reducing tooth cavities.” San Diego County is the most populous county in California with no fluoridation. The county lacks it even though a 1995 state law requires […]
Uranium hexafluoride: Impurities and characterization by mass spectrometry
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Online May 8, 2011 Title: Pre Concentration of Impurities in Gaseous Uranium Fluoride and their Characterisation by Mass Spectrometry Excerpts: Introduction Uranium hexafluoride is a volatile compound, which is converted to reactor fuel after enrichment to about 3%. In order that the fuel functions efficiently, the amounts of certain impurities present should be kept within […]
There’s something in the water
DESPITE a Europe wide ban on the use of fluoride in public water supplies, the Government is still convinced that fluoridation should continue as a means of preventing tooth decay. It was introduced here in 1963, and the Department of Health says dental decay rates have been reduced by 70% in the meantime. Over the […]
Fluoridation forum just a token gesture says Green Party Deputy
A decision by the Minister for Health to establish a forum on water fluoridation has created political controversy. Mr Martin announced yesterday a 20-member forum was being established to review the fluoridation of public pipedwater supplies. The forum will eventually invite submissions from the public. However, Green Party deputy Mr John Gormley TD, who is […]
Greens Claim Review Group on Fluoride “a Whitewash”
THE setting up of an expert group to review fluoridation of public water supplies was described as a `whitewash’ by the Green Party yesterday. Health Minister Micheal Martin said the group will review research into fluoridation amid public concern about its possible impact on health and deliver recommendations. Although fluoridation has been credited with dramatically […]