Our priority chemicals list identifies the chemicals we believe are most in need of review here in New Zealand. The chemicals on the priority list make up part of the larger screened chemicals list, which were screened using our FRCaST screening tool. The chemicals on the priority list are categorised as either Group A or […]
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.
Canadian studies prompt researcher to voice grave concerns
Last week three new studies were published on fluoride adding more weight to an already overwhelming body of evidence that fluoridation is not safe. “I have grave concerns about the health effects of fluoride” said Ashley Malin, lead author of the Canadian Fluoride-Thyroid study and a researcher at the Department of Environmental Medicine and Public […]
Eight cattle dead after 1080 drop in Waikato video
Note from FAN: Molecular structure of highly toxic Sodium fluoroacetate (known as 1080) The Department of Conservation says the animals appear to have entered an operational zone. Eight cattle found dead in the Waikato appear to have entered a 1080 drop zone through a broken fenceline, the Department of Conservation says. DOC is investigating the animal […]
Our dangerous addiction
Excerpts: Growing Pain: New Zealand’s dangerous addition to fertilizer … For many decades, much of the phosphate from Banaba and Nauru was shipped to New Zealand and Australia, well below the market rate, and spread on farms by planes piloted by war veterans. New Zealand enjoyed decades of cheap phosphate, which became lucrative meat and […]
1080 operation in northern Remutakas continues despite nationwide protests
Note from FAN: Molecular structure of highly toxic Sodium fluoroacetate (known as 1080) Days after nationwide protests calling for a ban on the use of 1080 poison in forests, a 24,000 hectare bait drop was launched in the Remutaka Ranges. A break in the weather has allowed OSPRI to carry out a pre-feed pellet drop […]
More on fluoride
THE University of Otago appears to be losing its way as the conscience of society with respect to preventing IQ loss in children from water fluoridation. Although academics were criticised, by Emeritus Prof Paul Connett, for not attending the recent public lecture on fluoridation and children’s IQ and engaging in debate (ODT, 6.9.18), university staff […]
Infant And Fetal Pathologist Warns All Women to Avoid Fluoride Before And During Pregnancy
About three hundred people turned up to Otago University on Tuesday night to hear three overseas experts talk about the evidence and the potential mechanisms of how fluoride effects the brain. The three experts were unanimous in their recommendation that fluoride is a developmental neurotoxin that lowers the IQ of children and warned that evidence […]
Anti-fluoride campaigner invites university debate
Visiting United States anti-fluoride campaigner Paul Connett has criticised University of Otago academics for not attending a public meeting on campus about the substance. Prof Connett and two Irish scientists, Vyvyan Howard and Declan Waugh, are touring New Zealand calling for a halt on fluoride being added to drinking water. On Tuesday, the trio spoke […]
Anti-fluoride group claiming fluoride ‘reduces children’s IQ’ to speak at Otago University
Photo credit: Reddit/9bpabz An anti-fluoride group is claiming that fluoride “reduces children’s IQ” on posters that are dotted around Dunedin. The Fluoride Free NZ posters are advertising an event due to be held at the Otago University campus on Tuesday, featuring three international anti-fluoride campaigners. Former University of Ulster academic Dr Vyvyan Howard, Irish scientist […]
New study finds more evidence on serious dangers posed by fluoridation
A conference organized jointly by the International Society for Exposure Science (ISES) and the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE), held in Ottawa, Canada from Aug 26-30, has revealed that contrary to claims made repeatedly by NZ health authorities, water fluoridation poses many risks, especially to the unborn child and people with iodine deficiency. Of […]