Highlights Proven contaminant-specific treatment technologies can treat groundwater sustainably. Technologies are applicable to underserved rural communities. Treatment technologies can be traditional, advanced, or experimental. Enabling environmental and societal factors impact technology acceptance. Water quality parameters may impact or interfere with the technology performance. Abstract Worldwide, about one out of two people depend on groundwater resources […]
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.
Petition to UK Government and Parliament: Do not put fluoride in all tap water.
On the 23rd of September 2021, the UK’s four chief medical officers recommended adding fluoride to all tap water ‘in order to combat tooth decay’. It is expected that ministers will soon implement this. There is however, scientific literature on the negatives of adding fluoride to mains water. More details It would be better if […]
ADA commends NIH report, Oral Health in America: Advances and Challenges
Excerpts: Good oral health is important for the overall health and well-being of individuals of all ages, their families, communities and the nation, according to a newly released report from the National Institutes of Health. That was among the key findings of Oral Health in America: Advances and Challenges, a wide-ranging report that provides a […]
Equipment for deconversion arrives at Zheleznogorsk
The first equipment has arrived at a deconversion plant being built by Russia’s Rosatom and France’s Orano in eastern Siberia. The plant is part of a long-term project to manage and make use of depleted uranium stocks in Russia. Inside the forthcoming deconversion plant (Image: TVEL) The facility, called W2-EHZ, is sited at the Electrochemical […]
Alpena: Water fluoridation tabled at City Council meeting
ALPENA, Mich.–Monday nights city council meeting drew in more attendees than usual. The hot button water fluoridation topic caused public commenters to come out in droves to express their opinion on weather to keep or ditch the fluoridation process. Marie Fielder said, “The center for disease control has called community water fluoridation one of the […]
New Report: Oral Health in America: Advances and Challenges.
Report: Oral Health in America Advances and Challenges 790 pages By the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research Fluoride mentioned 276 times Fluoridation is mentioned 64 times IQ is mentioned 0 times Excerpts (page numbers are according to the pdf report): Neurotoxicity PAGE 160. Recent concerns related to […]
Lawrence A. Tabak, DDS, PhD, appointed Acting Director, National Institutes of Health.
Lawrence A. Tabak, D.D.S., Ph.D., is the Acting Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), officially taking office on December 20, 2021. Dr. Tabak has served as the Principal Deputy Director and the Deputy Ethics Counselor of NIH since August 2010. He previously served as the Acting Principal Deputy Director of NIH (2009), and […]
Work site access to fluoridated tap water and retail beverages. An assessment of the University of California, San Francisco campuses.
Abstract Background Employees with fluoridated drinking water access at work can reap oral health benefits. The purpose of this study was to assess the availability, appeal, and promotion of fluoridated tap water in publicly accessible spaces compared with retail beverages at the University of California, San Francisco. Methods The authors collected information on beverages available […]
Adding fluoride to water in Selwyn district could cost more than $10m
A cost analysis of fluoridating the Selwyn district’s water supplies shows it could be more than $10 million. Government legislation means fluoridation of supplies could begin as early as next year, although it is not yet known what Selwyn’s timetable will be. But in response to questions from the Selwyn Times, district council group manager […]
NIH drops long-awaited sequel to surgeon general’s report
The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) on December 21 released the long-awaited sequel to the surgeon general’s 2000 report on oral health. The report reveals many people in the U.S. have chronic dental problems and lack access to care despite advances in oral health. […]