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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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
DELTONA – Jeff Carine was driving to Daytona Beach to play golf Tuesday morning when his Toyota Camry hit a mushy, snowlike liquid covering Interstate 4. Carine, a golfer from Windermere, assumed it was a minor chemical spill and kept driving. Six hours later, he returned to the spot after hearing news throughout the day […]
BARTOW – Regional planners heard more than three hours of testimony Monday before they unanimously approved construction of a new phosphate gypsum stack near Fort Meade. The crowd of more than 200 people was split between stack opponents, who fear water and radiation pollution from the stack, and supporters many of whom rely on the […]
Excerpts from article: … We also analyzed the impinger and silicagel sorbent tubes for anions of other inorganic acids including bromide, fluoride, nitrate, perchloric, phosphate, and sulfate. Of these, fluoride, nitrate, perchloric, and sulfate were identified in some samples collected from the sampling stations within the plume. Nitric and perchloric acids were below quantifiable levels […]
The first thing that anyone coming to the settlement of Nadvoitsy (Karelia) encounters … is a strong, throat-burning odor of nitrogen sulfide on the street. But the odor penetrates railroad cars about 20 minutes before Nadvoitsy, when the train passes by the Segezha Pulp and Paper Combine. Most residents of Nadvoitsy consider this “aroma” to […]
TARPON SPRINGS – Two diverse neighbors share a small, peaceful cove along the Anclote River: a subdivision with a handful of homes and a defunct chemical plant with buried hazardous waste. A recently released report shows some contaminants from the 160-acre Stauffer Chemical Plant, closed for 13 years, may have seeped into Meyers Cove, shared […]
A two-year battle against the federal government ended in victory for a scientist fired from the Environmental Protection Agency after raising health concerns about fluoride. Labor Secretary Robert B. Reich ordered that William L. Marcus be returned to his $ 87,000-a-year job at EPA and be paid back wages, legal costs and a $ 50,000 […]
In a precedent-setting ruling, U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Secretary Robert B. Reich has ordered the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reinstate toxicologist Dr. William L. Marcus. Labor found the EPA guilty of falsifying employment records, discrimination, and retaliation against an employee whistleblower. It also granted Marcus the largest compensatory damage award ever upheld […]