Cities must resist this vocal minority using pseudoscience. Their budgets are at stake. In 1901, a Colorado Springs dentist named Frederick McKay noticed many of his patients had peculiarly mottled brown teeth — but far fewer cavities than the norm. The cause, Dr. McKay determined after years of investigation, was high levels of natural fluoride […]
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.
Study: Sugar Rules The World And Ruins Teeth
The Candylicious store in the Dubai Mall in the United Arab Emirates. –John Stanmeyer for NPR About 95% of 12-year-olds in the Philippines have tooth decay or cavities. And cavities affect 7 in 10 children in India, one-third of Tanzania teens and nearly 1 in every 3 Brazilians. These and other startling oral health statistics […]
Detoxify Your Home with These Simple Steps
Small adjustments can make a big difference. They’re in the air, your water, your furniture, and clothing—the very things that make up your home. They have names like toluene, formaldehyde, dioxins, fragrance or parfum, petroleum, mercury, lead, arsenic, oxybenzone, parabens, PCBs, phthalates, talc, and more. While advances in technology have supplied us with many conveniences, […]
Refinery Explosions Raise New Warnings About Deadly Chemical
In the predawn hours of June 21, explosions at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery in South Philadelphia shook houses, sent fireballs into the air and woke up nearby residents. “Three loud explosions, one after the other, boom, boom boom!” says David Masur, who lives about two miles from the plant and has two young kids. […]
Comparing Fluoride Exposures in Pregnant Canadian Women: Fluoridated versus Nonfluoridated Drinking Water
Fluoridated water is piped to more than one-third of the Canadians1 and nearly three-quarters of the Americans2 who use public water systems. Although fluoride helps prevent dental cavities, some studies have suggested that higher prenatal exposures may affect neurodevelopment.3,4 Those findings make it important to understand exposure levels in general populations. Research published in Environmental […]
Superior Council supports refinery rebuild
Councilors unanimously in support of rebuilding the Husky Energy refinery with added safety measures after Duluth Council votes to ask EPA to reconsider use of hydrogen fluoride. Superior’s City Council is lending its support to rebuilding the Husky Energy refinery in the safest manner possible. Councilors unanimous support to a resolution presented by Superior City […]
Notifications of Meadville area’s impending fluoridation to be sent to health care providers
VERNON TOWNSHIP — Meadville Area Water Authority has received its operating permit for the fluoridation system and will soon begin sending out notifications of impending fluoridation to health care providers in its service area. Authority officials said they did not yet know exactly when fluoridation will begin. The letters to doctors and dentists in the […]
Flumioxazin: Dumont Lake negative for toxic algae
Note from Fluoride Action Network: See more info about this fluorinated herbicide at http://www.fluoridealert.org/wp-content/pesticides/epage.flumioxazin.effects.htm Molecular Structure: ALLEGAN — Recent water testing of Dumont Lake showed negative results for toxic algae, the Allegan County Health Department confirmed on Wednesday, July 17. The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy performed testing on algal blooming on […]
State-by-State Regulation of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in Drinking Water
Although the Federal Environmental Protection Agency issued its PFAS Action Plan on February 14, 2019 (see our March 27, 2019, client alert), many states have expressed frustration with EPA’s proposed plan and have started the process of regulated PFAS in drinking water themselves. As a result, states have adopted a patchwork of regulations and standards […]
Duluth City Council adopts resolution to take a closer look at hydrogen fluoride at Husky Refinery
DULUTH, MN- The Husky refinery explosion happened a little over a year ago in Superior. Tonight it was center stage at Duluth city hall. The council adopted a resolution asking the EPA to take a closer look at the use of hydrogen fluoride, a chemical stored at the superior refinery, that could have made the explosion […]