Kendall Jenner celebrated the launch of Moon on April 23rd with the brand’s founder, Sean Neff. The direct-to-consumer brand is sold online. Moon’s mission is to elevate oral care, making it a “beauty experience” — and its black packaging looks stylish. Jenner worked with Neff to co-create the Kendall Jenner Teeth Whitening Pen. The Kendall Jenner […]
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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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Water Fluoridation by Paul Connett, PhD
The Latest Science Indicates That the Practice Must Stop Water fluoridation is the deliberate addition of a substance containing, or yielding, fluoride (that is, in the form of the free fluoride ion) to the public water supply with the ostensible aim of reducing tooth decay. The concentrations of fluoride used for this purpose in the […]
INSIGHT: Agency Regulation of PFAS Must Balance Costs, Benefits
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) represent a large group of synthetic chemicals that have been in use since the 1940s in a wide variety of consumer and industrial products. While PFAS can take different forms, their common characteristic is the presence of multiple fluorine atoms. The carbon–fluorine bond is the strongest chemical bond in organic […]
EPA urged to update petroleum refinery safety rules
The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board is calling on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to review its existing hydrofluoric acid study to determine the effectiveness of existing regulations and the viability of utilizing inherently safer alkylation technologies in petroleum refineries. “In the last 4 years, the CSB has investigated two refinery incidents where […]
Chemical Safety Board Calls On EPA To Update Hydrofluoric Acid Study In Wake Of Husky Fires
The U.S. Chemical Safety Board is calling on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to revisit a 1993 study on hydrofluoric acid in the wake of an explosion and series of fires at the Husky Energy oil refinery in Superior last year. Kristen Kulinowski, the CSB’s interim executive, said the agency should examine existing regulations and […]
USEPA Draft Interim Recommendations to Address Groundwater Contaminated with Perfluorooctanoic Acid and Perfluorooctane Sulfonate
This draft document is solely for the purpose of public comment. It does not represent and should not be construed to represent any Agency determination or policy until it is finalized. PURPOSE This guidance provides interim recommendations for addressing groundwater contaminated with perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and/or perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) at sites being evaluated and addressed […]
Many dental procedures lack scientific backing, data review finds
The “truth about dentistry,” writes Ferris Jabr in the Atlantic, is that “common dental procedures are not always as safe, effective, or durable as we are meant to believe.” Many dental procedures, from twice-yearly teeth cleanings to crowns for root canals, do not have a lot of rigorous scientific backing. REUTERS/Mark Makela In a long-form […]
Ocala. Editorial: Fluoride debate demands skepticism
There seems to be little argument that fluoridation of public water supply is one of the greatest public health success stories of the past three-quarters of a century — except in Ocala City Hall. The city’s water resources chief, Sean Lanier, has a different take. Lanier recently recommended the city stop adding fluoride to its […]
Española: City Committee Approves Nitrate Filtration System
A panel with oversight authority of the city of Española’s water system has approved a plan to purchase a $113,000 nitrate filtration system to be installed on a city-owned well, with further commitments to buy a second system that would remove fluoride from a second well. Tony Granger, a sales engineer for Albuquerque-based Hennesy Mechanical […]
Report shows 239 people sickened in Utah fluoride overfeed; investigation continuing
Spenser Heaps, Deseret News FILE – Sandy city employees Taylor Vick and Mike Fox distribute water to residents at a staging area on 700 East in Sandy on Saturday, Feb. 16, 2019. A new summary of the health impacts caused by the accidental release of fluoride in Sandy says there were 239 cases of people […]