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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.
This Chemical Kills. Why Aren’t Regulators Banning It?
A fiery refinery blast in Philadelphia could be just the beginning. Explosions last month at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions oil refinery complex could have imperiled hundreds of thousands of people living within a few miles of the plant.CreditCreditMatt Rourke/Associated Press Last month’s spectacular explosions at a large Philadelphia oil refinery complex injured five workers, […]
Proposed Groundwater Regulations Could Affect Upper Cape
The Upper Cape is home to two of Cape Cod’s five sites contaminated by chemicals in the PFAS family. Already, millions of dollars have been spent acting on a health advisory issued by the Environmental Protection Agency in 2016, which warned of health risks associated with two chemicals in the PFAS family, PFOA and PFOS. […]
Cape Cod: Contamination Cleanup Presents Challenges To County
Barnstable County is working with federal and state environmental protection agencies to clean up a site contaminated by a history of use of firefighting foam. Massachusetts, meanwhile, has proposed tightening regulations on those contaminants. Both the county and the Town of Barnstable have already spent millions to address the problem caused by the chemicals, known […]
July 10: Pittsburgh & Lancaster Community Water Fluoridation Training
Pittsburgh: Date and Time Wed, July 10, 2019 9:00 AM – 12:30 PM EDT Pittsburgh: Location Comfort Inn Conference Center 699 Rodi Road Pittsburgh, PA 15235 View Map Lancaster: Date and Time Thurs, July 11, 9:00 am – 12:30 pm Website: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lancaster-community-water-fluoridation-training-tickets-59194189414 “Speaking Up for Community Water Fluoridation” is being offered in partnership with the […]
Fluoride varnish has little new caries impact
Many preschool-age children develop new caries regardless of fluoride varnish treatments, according to a new study. The researchers concluded that further cost-savings analysis is needed to determine if this treatment should be abandoned. Both U.S. and European pediatric dentistry associations widely recommend the application of fluoride varnishes for their assumed anticavity benefits in children, though […]
Public officials, environmentalists call for quick action by state and feds to resolve Newburgh’s water contamination
NEWBURGH – It has been three years since the chemicals PFOS and PFOA were discovered in the City of Newburgh’s Washington Lake reservoir, leading to officials immediately turning it off. Since then, the city has been obtaining its water from the New York City Catskill Aqueduct, paid for by the state. The source of the […]
Letter: Dr. Johnson utters mistruths about fluoride science
Dentist Johnny Johnson is a fluoridation lobbyist who misleads legislators and the media when he claims “the moves to stop fluoride in cities and nations across the world were not based on science, but rather, on general fear,” according to your news article. Johnson is quoted as saying “It never has been based on science […]
State panel proposes nation’s toughest drinking water limit for 2 toxic chemicals
A panel of experts put together by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has proposed the nation’s most stringent drinking water limits for two chemicals in a suite of thousands of man-made, toxic substances. The panel submitted on Thursday its recommendation to the Michigan PFAS Action Response Team (MPART), which suggested drinking water limits for a handful of […]
Chemours says DuPont lowballed environmental liabilities
Photo: Richard Drew, AP FILE – In this Dec. 9, 2015, file photo, the company name of Dupont appears above its trading post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Chemical manufacturer Chemours says the DuPont Co. massively downplayed the cost of environmental liabilities that Chemours would be saddled after it was spun […]