In a milestone for the industrialization of ionic liquids, Chevron has started up an alkylation unit at its Salt Lake City refinery that uses an ionic liquid catalyst instead of the traditional hydrofluoric or sulfuric acid. Alkylation reacts isobutane with olefins such as butene and propylene to create octane and other fuels. The Salt Lake […]
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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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Orono and Veazie Town Councils to hold Referendum to end fluoridation on June 8th.
Information about Fluoride During the past year, the Orono and Veazie Town Councils have discussed and voted to hold a Municipal Referendum Election on Tuesday, June 8, 2021 for the purpose of allowing the voters to consider whether to cease fluoridating the public water supply. State Law vests all power regarding the decision to add […]
Nasty stuff. Letter by Annette Smith, exec. dir., Vermonters for a Clean Environment Inc.
Some readers may be tired of reading Jack Crowther’s information about fluoride, but Mr. Crowther is absolutely correct about the toxicity of the fluoride used in Rutland’s water supply. Another Rutland resident got the label from the product that is put into the Rutland water supply. It comes from a phosphate plant in Florida, and […]
Vermont: Chronic Disease Program Specialist: Fluoride Program Coordinator
Chronic Disease Program Specialist: Fluoride Program Coordinator – Limited Service State of Vermont – Burlington, VT Description Overview: The Vermont Department of Health is recruiting for a Fluoride Program Coordinator/Chronic Disease Specialist in the Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention Division’s Office of Oral Health. This position is responsible for providing support to the Oral […]
FAN calls for the resignation of the director of the CDC’s Oral Health Division
Warnings needed to inform pregnant women living in fluoridated areas that the fetus and formula-fed infant are the most vulnerable to fluoride’s neurotoxicity. Public health officials should warn pregnant women and parents who bottle-feed infants living in fluoridated communities to avoid fluoridated water. No health agency has yet to do this.” — Paul Connett PhD, […]
Iran vows revenge for ‘Israeli’ attack on Natanz nuclear site
“Enriched uranium is produced by feeding uranium hexafluoride gas into centrifuges to separate out the most suitable isotope for nuclear fission, called U-235.” The Iranian foreign minister has said his country will “take revenge” for an attack on an underground nuclear site, for which it has blamed Israel. Iranian officials said the Natanz uranium enrichment […]
Policing orthodoxy on Wikipedia: Skeptics in action?
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Note: Fluoride Action Network has spent many hours over many years trying to correct the mistakes on Wikipedia’s fluoridation site, but all to no avail. Abstract: Wikipedia has been accused of being biased against challengers to scientific orthodoxy due to efforts by editors having affinities with the Skeptics movement. Examination of Wikipedia, including entries on […]
Australian Bauxite converts smelter waste to aluminium flouride [sic]
The Bell Bay industrial precinct in Tasmania, where Alcore is hoping to build an aluminium fluoride production plant. Credit: TasInvest ASX-listed Australian Bauxite’s 87 per cent-owned chemical refining subsidiary, Alcore may be on the cusp of turning aluminium smelter waste into treasure after producing aluminium fluoride samples from waste known as “dross” in recent test […]
Tap solution: Scots dentists’ move for fluoride in the water supply to combat children’s oral health crisis
SCOTS dentists have re-ignited a decades old debate by demanding that fluoride be added to Scotland’s drinking water to beat a children’s dental crisis exacerbated by a lack of available treatment during pandemic. The British Dental Association in Scotland (BDAS) has been concerned that according to reports from frontline staff, some 2,500 children in Scotland […]
Piney Point: ‘No community should suffer this’: Florida’s toxic breach was decades in the making
A leak at an abandoned fertilizer plant is just the latest development at a site that has polluted the area since it was built 01:10 Drone footage of Florida reservoir shows toxic water leak near Tampa Bay – video It’s been a week since a significant leak at a long-abandoned fertilizer plant in the Tampa […]