This week the Eldora City Council agreed to not add fluoride to the water. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources requires fluoride to be tested every day. The action taken this week by the Eldora council means Iowa Falls is the only city that still adds fluoride to the water in Hardin County. *Original article […]
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.
CDC: Fluoridation Links to Other Organizations
Links to Other Organizations Provided below are links to various agencies and organizations recognizing the benefits of community water fluoridation. Some of the agencies/organizations links are to policy statements and others provide educational information. If you are a government agency or professional organization with a public statement recognizing the benefits of fluoride, CDC’s Division of […]
City of Sandy: Approval by Water Board of the Stipulated Consent Order for massive fluoride overfeed
Note from Fluoride Action Network: • Sandy, Utah, fined $37,000 in penalties & fees for allowing 151.5 mg/L, fluoride to flow into the water supply and seriously sicken residents in February 2019. • 1 pm meeting today of the Drinking Water Board -January 12- via https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/566470605 to discuss the Stipulation & Consent agreement with the City […]
Yorktown. Letter: Don’t Force Fluoride on Me
The debate about adding a toxic substance, fluoride, to our drinking water has its pros and cons. Yorktown has been without water fluoridation for a long time now. I have not heard of any problems with an increase of cavities, have you? If there are people who want fluoride treatment for their teeth, there are […]
Spokane. Taking a principled stance on water fluoridation (Letter)
The latest fluoridation controversy is over the city moving forward with a cost analysis. Although initially funded by Delta Dental’s Arcora Foundation, the city must pay for it if it decides not to fluoridate. The current positions: Green light: Spokane City Council President Breann Beggs – Full speed ahead Yellow light: Mayor Nadine Woodward – […]
Cenovus closes on nearly $5B deal to combine with Husky, which owns Superior refinery
Canadian oil and gas company Cenovus Energy has closed on its nearly $5 billion deal to buy Calgary-based Husky Energy, the company that owns and operates Wisconsin’s only oil refinery. The $4.78 billion deal makes the combined company the second-largest Canadian-based refiner and third-largest oil and gas producer there. The deal was first announced in […]
Fayette County resolution supports local control of fluoride
The subject of adding fluoride to municipal drinking water has again floated to the surface of Fayette County’s legislative concerns. The Board of Commissioners voted 5-0 on Dec. 10 to endorse a resolution that encourages the Fayette County delegation to the General Assembly to consider amending state law to allow individual cities and counties to […]
Fluoride & Dental Health by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
Fluoride & Dental Health Online as of December 27, 2020 Overview Fluoride (said like floor-eyed) is a mineral that occurs naturally in soil, water, and air that has been shown to prevent cavities, or tooth decay. For the past several decades, fluoride has been added to community water supplies and oral care products such as […]
The Story of Fluoridation by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
Health Info on fluoride Online as of December 27, 2020 The Story of Fluoridation It started as an observation, that soon took the shape of an idea. It ended, five decades later, as a scientific revolution that shot dentistry into the forefront of preventive medicine. This is the story of how dental science discovered-and ultimately […]
Dr. Arthur Bushel “launched one of the first campaigns to prevent cavities by fluoridating the New York City water supply”
The title of the article: Dr. Arthur Bushel, dental health pioneer, dies Dr. Arthur Bushel, a retired dentist who taught at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and was an expert on fluoridation, died of complications of normal pressure hydrocephalus Nov. 21 at the North Oaks Retirement Community. He was 99. Born in […]