With accessible clean drinking water a hot global issue, the residents of Wenden can now confidently quench their thirst. For many years, residents of this small rural town hesitated to drink the water due to its high fluoride content and spikes in arsenic levels that required further drilling and a state mandated Fluoride and Arsenic […]
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.
Letter: Fluoride debate a ghost of debates past
Re: ‘Phooey on fluoride’ letter to the editor, Dec. 12 Editor: I remember the loud outcries the rest of Pinellas County emitted when County Commission passed fluoridation, despite all the scientific evidence against it from medical authorities! No matter – Commission passed it then, years ago. As a 35-year certified Nurse Practitioner, Professor Emerita, former […]
Research Supports Claims That Teeth Worsen Without Fluoridated Water
Note from Fluoride Action Network On January 17, 2019, FAN issued a press release on Dr. Meyer’s paper titled, Juneau fluoridation study: more hype than evidence. In that release Paul Connett PhD, FAN executive director, described the Meyer study as “a very poorly controlled and unblinded study that can neither rule out or rule in that […]
Yorktown Aims to Return Fluoride to Drinking Water
YORKTOWN, N.Y. – The Town Board on Tuesday, Dec. 18, took its first concrete step toward returning fluoride to the water supplied by the Catskill Aqueduct to residents by authorizing a transfer of $209,000 from the Water District’s fund balance to pay the design consultant of a new fluoridation system, thereby establishing it as a […]
Oregon Trail Elementary students can receive dental sealants
TWIN FALLS — Oregon Trail Elementary School first- and second-graders are scheduled to receive free dental sealants and fluoride varnish to help prevent cavities, beginning Jan. 8, as part of Delta Dental of Idaho’s Grins-on-the-Go program. Dental sealants fill the deep grooves of the back teeth where 90 percent of cavities occur. Fluoride varnish helps […]
Study: Juneau’s lack of fluoride has increased kid cavities
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska’s capital stopped fluoridating its tap water about 12 years ago, and a new study says Juneau’s children are paying a price. Public health researcher Jennifer Meyer studied Medicaid dental claims before and after fluoride was removed, the KTOO radio station reported. The lack of fluoride has increased dental costs for […]
P&G strikes deal with Clorox on Burt’s Bees product
Procter & Gamble Co. has begun making Burt’s Bees toothpaste, and tubes will be available for sale nationwide in January through a licensing deal with Clorox Co. Similar deals to make other Burt’s Bees products could be considered between the companies, but the toothpaste is the only one P&G has in market now. A spokesman […]
Fayette Commission tells state: Let us decide on adding fluoride to our water
The Fayette County Commission on Dec. 13 voted to asked the General Assembly at the upcoming legislative session to consider letting local communities vote to remove fluoride from drinking water. A requirement of state law, last amended in 1983, all municipal water systems in Georgia must include fluoride in drinking water. Georgia is the 7th […]
$14k on fluoride campaign tops Clark County election spending
Signs along North Fountain Avenue for and against flouride in the water in Springfield. BILL LACKEY/STAFF Campaign finance reports filed earlier this month show advocates of a campaign to add fluoride to Springfield’s water supply spent about $14,200 to promote the effort, the largest expenditure for any local race in November’s election. Post-general election campaign […]
Juneau fluoride study confirms old science, but doesn’t sway opponents
About 12 years ago, Juneau became one of many American cities to stop fluoridating its tap water. Unlike the others, a public health researcher decided to study the real-world aftermath of ending fluoridation in Juneau. Back then, the science predicted more cavities. Later, local dentists anecdotally reported more cavities. And now, there’s new research confirming there are […]