Groups opposed to fluoridating drinking water are planning to sue EPA over its denial of their petition asking it to use Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) authority to prohibit fluoridation, which will pose a test of the agency’s novel rationale for rejecting the request as falling short of what is required under the recently revised […]
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EPA Denies TSCA Section 21 Petition on Fluoride Chemicals in Drinking Water; Provides Response to Petition
On February 27, 2017, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced in a Federal Register notice that it was denying a Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Section 21 petition that requested regulatory action under Section 6 to “prohibit the purposeful addition of fluoridation chemicals to U.S. water supplies,” and that it was making available its […]
Fluoride Chemicals in Drinking Water; TSCA Section 21 Petition; Reasons for Agency Response
Federal Register | PDF version Summary This document announces the availability of EPA’s response to a petition it received on November 23, 2016, under section 21 of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). The TSCA section 21 petition was received from the Fluoride Action Network, Food & Water Watch, Organic Consumers Association, the American Academy […]
ADA: EPA denies petition to ban adding ‘fluoridation chemicals’ to water supplies
ADA president applauds decision ‘on the side of sound science’ The health benefits of fluoride include “having fewer cavities, less severe cavities, less need for fillings and removing teeth and less pain and suffering due to tooth decay,” the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Feb. 17. The statement came as part of a detailed, 50-page […]
EPA Rejects Fluoride Ban But Details New TSCA Path To Revive Request
EPA is rejecting health groups’ petition seeking a Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) ban on drinking water fluoridation after finding it lacked adequate evidence of neurological risks to justify a ban, but the agency is also offering guidance on how to craft petitions to win reviews of potential bans under last year’s revised TSCA. In […]
Brains are being harmed by bad policy–EPA put on notice to follow rules and protect citizens
Is the rampant increase of brain and behavioral issues such as cognitive deficits, autistic spectrum disorders and ADHD linked to drinking fluoride or exposure in utero? A coalition of national groups, including the nonprofit Moms Against Fluoridation (MAF), has served Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with a Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Petition demanding that the […]
Staudenmaier Petitions EPA That Fluoride is Neurotoxic
Brenda Staudenmaier who attends NWTC [Northeast Wisconsin Technical College] in Green Bay, participated in the filing of a petition with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to protect people from brain damage caused from ingesting fluoride in city water. On behalf of their children, five US mothers, along with the American Academy of Environmental Medicine, Food […]
Big Companies in Legal Scrapes Turn to Science for- Hire Giant Exponent
Note from Fluoride Action Network: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hired Exponent to provide the experts in an ongoing federal lawsuit (Food & Water vs EPA) to defend the use of adding fluoride to drinking water in spite of the fact that fluoride has been found to be neurotoxic to the fetus and bottle-fed […]
EPA Urged to Ban Brain Toxin by Dr. Mercola
Fluoride Action Network (FAN) is among a coalition of environmental, medical and health groups urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to ban the addition of fluoride to public drinking water supplies. The EPA has been served with a petition that includes more than 2,500 pages of scientific documentation detailing the risks of water fluoridation […]
Water: Health groups petition EPA to ban water fluoridation
Health advocacy groups are trying a new tack in their effort to ban fluoridation of drinking water, petitioning EPA to use its Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) authority to ban the longstanding practice — introduced in the 1940s to promote dental health – because it poses neurotoxicity risks. “EPA should exercise its authority under TSCA […]