The Meeker Town Board of Trustees considered two important issues at its regular monthly meeting on Tuesday, May 7: new water treatment standards and a new property line for the cemetery. New Water Treatment Standards Water treatment Assistant Superintendent Tobey Willey was present to explain the new regulations that become effective on March 1, 2021, […]
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.
7 Tips for Oral Health During Pregnancy
Note from the Fluoride Action Network: We add articles like this so that the advice given to pregnant women will be remembered. The Mother-Offspring studies by Bashash and others indicate that pregnant women living in communities that fluoridate the drinking water should be cautious in their use and ingestion of fluoride. These studies indicate that […]
The Truth About Dentistry
It’s much less scientific—and more prone to gratuitous procedures—than you may think. n the early 2000s Terry Mitchell’s dentist retired. For a while, Mitchell, an electrician in his 50s, stopped seeking dental care altogether. But when one of his wisdom teeth began to ache, he started looking for someone new. An acquaintance recommended John Roger […]
Fluoridation of Public Water. Policy Statement of Madison & Dane County Public Health
Available in pdf format INTRODUCTION Communities throughout the United States have utilized the fluoridation of drinking water supplies for over 70 years as a strategy to reduce tooth decay (dental caries)1-7. The observed decline in national averages for the prevalence and severity of dental caries since the initiation of the program in 1945 has been […]
Toxic food packaging at the grocery store?
New laboratory testing reveals PFAS likely in Albertsons’s popcorn packaging, dental floss, & other products There’s nothing like spending an evening on the couch with our families, binge-watching the Great British Baking Show and passing around a bowl of scrumptious popcorn. But that popcorn may be carrying a hidden hazard. A new laboratory investigation commissioned […]
Clearwater to Add Fluoride to Drinking Water
The fluoride systems will be monitored continuously and controlled by the city’s 14 licensed water treatment plant operators. CLEARWATER – The city of Clearwater will begin adding fluoride to its drinking water supply on June 10. The Clearwater City Council approved the addition of fluoride to the water system on Sept. 1, 2016 (design work […]
PFAS Senate hearing, Birnbaum’s expert scientific testimony
Linda Birnbaum told senators that chemicals known as PFAS persist in the environment and affect nearly every system in the human body. Congressional interest in the class of chemicals known as PFAS, or per- and polyfluoralkyl substances, continued last month with a March 28 hearing of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. Among […]
Prominent Toxicologist Urges Communities to Stop Fluoridation – Citing Adverse Health Effects
NEW YORK, May 9, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — “Risks of ingesting fluoride include lowered IQs and increased ADHD and hypothyroidism rates,” reports Steven G. Gilbert, PhD, DABT, Director and Founder of the Institute of Neurotoxicology and Neurological Disorders and affiliate professor at the University of Washington School of Public Health in “Fluoride Ingestion: Connecting the Dots for Health,” reports […]
Health considerations when bottle-feeding
Note from the Fluoride Action Network We put articles such as this online to document such worrisome advice on fluoride as is given below. This article was online May 9, 2019. (EC) __________________________________________________ If you decide not to breastfeed, or are unable to breastfeed, commercial iron-fortified formulas can give your baby the nutrition he or […]
Utah Holistic Dentist Shares Earth Day Message To Avoid Fluoridated Water
Utah’s renowned holistic dentist, Dr. Judson Wall, of Dental Solutions, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of their latest blog article that challenger pro-fluoridation evidence. “Earth Day has been celebrated for almost 50 years. This year’s theme was to Protect Our Species. What better way to do that than to challenge the media reporting […]