Victoria Griffith visits a Brazilian city that was shut down because of excessive pollution levels Just 35 miles south of Sao Paulo the highway to the Brazilian coast descends from a mountain paradise of trees and waterfalls to what looks like a futuristic nightmare – the city of Cubatao. Metal chimneys belching fire and smoke […]
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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Mexicans air concerns to Du Pont
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WILMINGTON – Seeking facts on a chemical plant they say threatens their neighborhoods, Mexican activists met Thursday with Du Pont Co. officials in Wilmington. Residents of the Mexican border city of Matamoros joined members of a New York activist group, asking Du Pont to spell out the hazards of a 16-year-old factory built and partly […]
Burbank, California Admits to Lax Enforcement of Toxic Waste Rules
Burbank officials admitted Friday that a breakdown in monitoring and enforcement procedures led to a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency lawsuit which contends that the city allowed toxic wastes to be dumped into sewers. City Manager Bud Ovrom and Public Works Director Ora Lampman said Burbank didn’t crack down hard enough during the mid-1980s on industries […]
Fluoridation Plan Divides Suffolk Residents
In the 1940’s, as municipalities around the country began putting fluoride into their water, opponents spoke darkly of Communists and said fluoridation was nothing less than a plot to control America through its faucets. The arguing died down in most places as studies began to show that fluoride did fight childrens’ tooth decay, and today, […]
USA: More About Fluoride
Early this year Newsweek magazine published a story with this advice for readers: “Brush your teeth, but the fluoride from your tap may not do much good – and may cause cancer”. The supporting cancer hazard evidence was an animal study sponsored by the government’s National Toxicology Program (Lancet, Feb 3, p282). Since then, the […]
Fluoride bioassay study under scrutiny
A recent animal study by the National Toxicology Program that failed to give fluoride a totally clean bill of health is now being questioned as being maybe too lenient on the widely used tooth decay preventative. Also, a government panel appointed to assess the risks and benefits of human exposure to fluoride and to put […]
Fluoride bioassay study under scrutiny
A recent animal study by the National Toxicology Program that failed to give fluoride a totally clean bill of health is now being questioned as being maybe too lenient on the widely used tooth decay preventative. Also, a government panel appointed to assess the risks and benefits of human exposure to fluoride and to put […]
Fluoride is not a nutrient
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 — […]
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 […]