Highlights Chronic airborne tritium release modeling was performed for three locations of future FHR construction. Carried out parametric study of critical meteorological and geometric parameters. Dose prediction for the near future was conducted for three locations. Dominance of meteorological parameters differs significantly for various geological locations. The study confirms the necessity of tritium management in […]
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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.
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NE England: Water fluoridation gains momentum with new website
Support for community water fluoridation continues to gain momentum with the unveiling of a new web page supporting schemes in the North East of England (https://onepartpermillion.co.uk/north-east). The web page is part of the One Part Per Million campaign initiated and funded by the local dental committee movement and is in readiness for public consultations in […]
Fluoride in Science News Again, This Time for Effects on Children’s IQ
The findings of a new Canadian study will be cold comfort for parents whose babies and children have consumed baby formula constituted with fluoridated drinking water. Scheduled for January 2020 publication in Environment International, the research paper, titled “Fluoride exposure from infant formula and child IQ in a Canadian birth cohort,” reports a significant drop […]
Calderdale: Council to explore possibility of flouridation of water to improve dental health of children
A debate on children’s dental health ended with a request to council officers to explore the possibility of whether water supplies could be fluoridated. Acknowledging it is a controversial subject, members of Calderdale Council’s children and young people’s scrutiny board thought it was nevertheless an option worth exploring. Coun Stephen Baines, who represents Northowram and […]
Dentists come together in east Florida to defend community water fluoridation
Melbourne City Council votes 4-3 to continue practice that has been in place since 1966 Melbourne, Fla. — A councilman who missed an earlier city council vote meeting cast the deciding, tie-breaking vote in a 4-3 decision that will continue community fluoridation for 181,000 Brevard County residents on the east coast of Florida. “It was […]
Moose Jaw: Fluoridation – Approved By Six Out Of Seven On Council
It was a debate based upon science steeped in the need to find the funds on how to pay for it but in the end Council decided to spend $1.2 million to upgrade its fluoridation system at the Buffalo Pound Water Treatment Plant leaving it up to Adminnistration to make recommendations on where to find […]
Fluoridation for Yorktown, Somers and the Northern Westchester Joint Water Works.
Excerpt from a public hearing last week on Yorktown’s 2020 town budget: During the hearing, former Supervisor Susan Siegel and Yorktown resident and dentist, Dr. Carl H. Tegtmeier, chairman of the Dental Health Planning & Hospital Dentistry Committee, implored the town board to add $157,000 to the budget to complete a fluoridation project. Yorktown and […]
Moose Jaw: No Fluoride, No Problem? Not According to Health Authorities
The Buffalo Pound Water Treatment Plant will receive a new fluoridation system if City Council approves a budget increase for the project worth $2.3 million. Moose Jaw residents have been without Saskatchewan Health Authority requirements for fluoridated water for “about a year” due to mechanical failures at the Buffalo Pound Water Treatment Plant. The City’s […]
From Mount Vesuvius to White Island: Volcanic eruptions throughout history
By Press Association The deadly eruption of a volcano in New Zealand’s Bay of Plenty on Monday left six people confirmed dead and dozens of visitors to the island injured. A famed tourist attraction, the White Island volcano is one of several in New Zealand and thousands that encircle the Pacific. Most lie far from […]
Letters: ‘Tony is happy to vote Green but their politics in County Durham is in a pickle’
TONY KELLY from Crook is happy to vote for the Green Party (HAS, Dec 6). But their politics in County Durham is in a pickle, or more correctly a soup (of a chemical nature). In his critique of Joy Warren (Co-ordinator, UK Freedom From Fluoride Alliance) printed here on May 4, 2019, he calls her […]