Cancellation of a Cryolite pesticide product *Online at https://www.regulations.gov/document/EPA-HQ-OPP-2018-0014-0041 Excerpts: Table 1—Product Cancellations Registration No. Company No. Product name Active ingredients 5481-132 5481 Cryolite 93 Cryolite. Table 3—Registrants of Cancelled and Amended Products EPA company No. Company name and address 5481 Amvac Chemical Corporation,4695 Macarthur Court, Suite 1200,Newport Beach, CA 92660-1706. […]
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.
Judge Again Rejects EPA’s Motion To End Landmark TSCA Citizen Suit
A federal judge has again denied EPA’s effort to end a potentially precedent-setting suit challenging the agency’s denial of a Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) citizen petition seeking to ban drinking water fluoridation, though the judge also rejected plaintiffs’ competing summary judgment motion that sought a quick ruling in their favor. Judge Edward Chen’s Dec […]
The Northland’s top stories of the decade
An enormous plume of smoke from a second fire at the Husky Energy refinery in Superior billows to the south on April 27, 2018. Residents within 10 miles in the direction of the smoke were evacuated. (File / News Tribune) With a new decade dawning, the News Tribune staff decided to look back at the […]
Lincoln County PWSD 1 Has Levels of Fluoride Above Drinking Water Standards
IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR DRINKING WATER LINCOLN COUNTY PWSD 1 Has Levels of Fluoride Above Drinking Water Standards Este informe contiene informacion muy importante sobre su agua potable. Traduzcalo o hable con alguien que lo entienda bien. Our water system recently violated a drinking water standard Although this is not an emergency, as our customers, […]
EPA Draws Criticism For Hiring Industry Consultant In TSCA Petition Suit
Excerpts: EPA has hired scientists from the consulting firm Exponent to bolster its defense in a precedent-setting case over its rejection of a citizen’s petition seeking to use the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to ban the practice of fluoridating drinking water, a move that is drawing strong criticism from one of the plaintiffs’ expert […]
Social media hosted a lot of fake health news this year. Here’s what went most viral.
Note from the Fluoride Action Network The author of this article provides no references whatsoever to substantiate the inclusion of fluoride in this article on “misinformation”. Yet, it is included as insinuation. Because of this, one has to question the author’s integrity and veracity in reporting. Note: we have used bold to emphasize where fluoride […]
15 Wellness Trends Experts Hope Will Go Away In 2020
Excerpts: It’s not too late to abandon these fads. Over the last decade the wellness world has exploded. It seems as though every week there is some hot trend being touted by a health expert, influencer, or celebrity (Gwyneth Paltrow, we are talking about you!). However, a handful (or three!) of these latest gadgets, diets, […]
Water Authority considers no longer adding fluoride to Festus, Herculaneum water
Officials with the Jefferson County Water Authority, which serves customers in Festus and Herculaneum, have been discussing the possibility of discontinuing the practice of adding fluoride to the water system. Many water providers add fluoride to their systems because the chemical helps prevent tooth decay. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), fluoridated water […]
Simple Test Could Prevent Fluoride-Related Disease
Method uses synthetic biology to detect dangerous levels of fluoride in drinking water The test tube on the left shows a real positive result from water sampled in Costa Rica. The middle tube is a negative control. The tube on the right is a positive control.Credit: Julius B. Lucks/Northwestern University With one drop of water, […]
Water Fluoridation: A Good Way To Lower IQ
Fluoride has been added to our public water supplies since the 1950s. It was added because the Powers-That-Be assured us that it would lower cavity rates and cause no harm. After 70 years of adding fluoride to our water supplies, I can now state, with certainty that fluoridated water does not significantly reduce cavity rates […]