…clothes or food, much less toothpaste,” said Dr. Kavita Ghai, a Union City dentist and one of many medical professionals in the state clamoring to add fluoride to the water supply. “Fluoridated water is needed here. . . . if we had fluoride in the water, it would save not only children, but adults and […]
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.
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Galloway New Jersey to Return to Fluoride Free Water
GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP — Atlantic City’s award-winning water isn’t clean enough for Galloway Township resident Robert R. Reyers. It’s not the water itself Reyers doesn’t like. After all, the city’s tap water earned honors last month in the Berkeley Springs International Water Tasting Awards, held in Berkeley Springs, W.Va., and has won three gold medals in […]
Good News from Japan
Dear All, This news just in from FAN member Tohru Murakami. Well done Tohru! Paul Connett. ———————————————————————— On 19th March, 2001 Town Assembly of Kanra-machi, Gunma Prefecture in Japan rejected the proposal of Fluoridation of their tap water. This is the first case of rejection of fluoridation since Ministry of Labor and Welfare decided the […]
Fluoridated Water Called an Environmental Poison
HANOVER, New Hampshire, March 20, 2001 (ENS) – A research team led by Dartmouth College professor Roger Masters charges that fluoridated drinking water is linked to higher blood levels of lead in children. Sodium fluoride, first added to public drinking water in 1945, is now used in less than 10 percent of fluoridation systems nationwide, […]
Fluoride Accumulations Killing Fish, Pine Trees, and Poisoning Environment
Although the first public drinking water supply in this country was fluoridated 56 years ago, the impact of fluoride on the environment has only recently begun to be studied. Unlike health impacts, which have been the subject of hundreds of research articles by university scientists published in academic journals worldwide, the buildup of fluoride in […]
Bennington considers water fluoridation
BENNINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A state official says that dental decay at the high school serving Bennington can be attributed to a lack of fluoride in public water supply. A 1994 survey of nine high schools found that students at Mount Anthony Union High School had an average of seven decayed, missing and filled surfaces […]
Piney Point: Phosphate plants under close eye
It’s not like you can padlock the doors and walk away. The complexities of keeping a phosphate processing plant operating are becoming clear to government regulators now overseeing two of them. Ponds full of 1.5 billion gallons of acid and three mountains of radioactive waste mean you just can’t shut off the machinery and turn […]
Dartmouth researcher warns of chemicals added to drinking water
MARCH 15, 2001 — In a recent article in the journal NeuroToxicology, a research team led by Roger D. Masters, Dartmouth College Research Professor and Nelson A. Rockefeller Professor of Government Emeritus, reports evidence that public drinking water treated with sodium silicofluoride or fluosilicic acid, known as silicofluorides (SiFs), is linked to higher uptake of […]
Clearfield vows to help anti-fluoridation efforts
CLEARFIELD — The City Council pledged Tuesday to help any citizens group that will organize a campaign to stop fluoridation of Davis County drinking water. The council passed a resolution Tuesday offering city support, assistance and free legal counsel to any group that will try to stop Davis County fluoridation before the plan is implemented […]
Norridgewock votes no to fluoridation
NORRIDGEWOCK — Voters spoke out Monday in favor of tearing down the town’s historic but unsafe concrete-arch bridge and keeping their water the way it is — without fluoride. Referendum voting on three of the most controversial questions facing the town — including the bridge, fluoride in the water and an environmental-health-consultant fund — took […]