Excerpts: Plaintiffs challenging EPA’s denial of a Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) citizen petition seeking to ban drinking water fluoridation may have overcome an initial EPA motion to end the case but the judge’s recent ruling allowing the landmark suit to proceed highlights the court’s skepticism on key issues to address in the future, attorneys […]
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.
Fluoridated water case is going to federal court
As some Cape Ann residents and local Conservation Commissions continue to push for the removal of fluoride in drinking water, a California court is expected to rule on the issue. A fluoridated water case, originally filed in 2017, is slated for an eight-day hearing in federal court in Berkeley, California, starting April 20. In 2016, the Food & Water […]
Montrose Borough and Bridgewater Township to end fluoridation
Excerpt: Bridgewater Township held its annual reorganization meeting Monday, Jan. 6, with new supervisor Russell Breeze coming on board, before the first monthly meeting of 2020. … A letter was received from the Pennsylvania America Water Company to ask for the township approval of their discontinuation of the policy of adding fluoride to the drinking […]
Water supplier for township in York County starts process to drop fluoride
Fluoride has long been regarded as one of the best ways to fight cavities. More than 60 years ago, suppliers started adding it to public water to protect children’s teeth as they matured. Over the years, fluoride started to pop up in more and more products – toothpaste, dental rinses, mouthwashes – and cities, towns […]
Opinion: Shiloh Water wants to stop adding fluoride: Here’s why you should oppose that
We are writing to encourage West Manchester Township residents to oppose the Shiloh Water System’s decision to cease fluoridating their water supply – a decision that will negatively impact the health of their customers. Concerned residents need to submit comments to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) by Tuesday, January 21, 2020. Shiloh Water […]
What will happen to teeth if you stop fluoridating water?
Note from Fluoride Action Network: This article is by an anonymous writer (as was a similar article published on Nov 23, 2019). FAN critiqued the Jennifer Meyer study on Juneau and produced a press release on our findings see: More Hype Than Evidence, January 17, 2019. (EC) Back in 2007, the inhabitants of Juneau, the […]
City of Newburgh Awarded $3 Million in Water Infrastructure Grants
NEWBURGH, NY – The City of Newburgh is pleased to announce the award of more than $3 million for improvements to the City’s drinking water infrastructure. The funding was made possible through the Water Infrastructure Improvement Act and the Intermunicipal Water Infrastructure Grant Program, and will be used to make state-of-the-art updates to the City’s […]
ACSH in the Media: New Year’s Edition
Note from Fluoride Action Network: The article discussed in #1 below is titled Association Between Maternal Fluoride Exposure During Pregnancy and IQ Scores in Offspring in Canada. The study, by Green et al., looked at 512 mother-child pairs from six major Canadian cities. It was funded by the Canadian government and the U.S. National Institute […]
Delta Dental: How healthy teeth are linked to rocks
Note from Fluoride Action Network: Note that Delta Dental does not mention that fluoride is an endocrine disruptor (2nd paragraph, page 266, NRC 2006 report) or neurotoxic. See studies by Grandjean 2019, Green et al. 2019, Riddell et al. 2019, Till et al. 2019, the Mother-Offspring studies, and the 64 IQ studies. (EC) How healthy […]
TSCA Fluoride Lawsuit Update
First time in its 43-year history citizens bring a suit to court under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) provisions On December 31, 2019, Edward M. Chen, U.S. District Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, dismissed an EPA motion for summary judgement (MSJ) in the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Fluoride […]