Imagine not having to charge your phone or laptop for weeks. That is the dream of researchers looking into alternative batteries that go beyond the current lithium-ion versions popular today. Now, in a new study appearing in the journal Science, chemists at several institutions, including Caltech and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is managed by […]
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.
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Brainerd: 40 years ago
The impartiality of the Governor’s Comm. on Fluoridation has been “hopelessly compromised” by hiring a pro-fluoridation dentist as a consultant, charged Jack Graham, special counsel to Brainerd in its 20-year fight against forced fluoridation of city water. * Original article, titled This Was Brainerd – Nov. 30, online at http://www.brainerddispatch.com/community/history/4535849-was-brainerd-nov-30
2016 CDC Water Fluoridation Awards to 19 Missouri public water systems
JEFFERSON CITY, MO – The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services announced today that 19 Missouri public water systems have been awarded a Water Fluoridation Quality Award from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Fluoridation is the adjustment of fluoride in drinking water to a level that is effective for preventing […]
Bluffs Water Works wins fluoridation quality award
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recognized the Council Bluffs Water Works “for its consistent and professional adjustment of the fluoride content to the recommended level for oral health for 12 consecutive months in 2017. Caitlin Beresford, chairperson of the Water Works Board of Trustees and a doctor of dental surgery at Bluffs […]
Businesses discharging PFAS into Michigan’s waterways
Michigan businesses are discharging high levels of PFAS that move into the state’s waterways on a daily basis. An MLive investigation found that manufacturing sources are sending one version of the “forever chemicals” at up to 20,000 times the allowed amount into wastewater systems that discharge it into the state’s lakes, rivers and, ultimately, threatening […]
Southern Missouri town stops adding fluoride to water; dentists predict tooth decay
Nearly two thirds of voters in the Texas County town of Houston decided to stop adding fluoride to the city’s water, but dentists serving the area are saying the change will lead to an increase in tooth decay. Opponents of water fluoridation call it government overreach, and cited studies that question the long-term health effects […]
Acid splashes worker at Westinghouse nuclear plant; employee sent to hospital
A worker at the Westinghouse atomic fuel factory near Columbia was transported to a hospital last week after spilling a toxic acid solution on his clothing while cleaning up, according to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The NRC said the worker, whose name was not available, apparently was unhurt. He was released from the hospital […]
Letter: Arkansas Water Fluoridation (Hydrofluosilic Acid) mandate must end
As accumulating health studies and litigation come nearer to forcing the U.S. EPA to ban, nation-wide, the deliberate addition of fluoride into public water supplies, we, as Arkansans, should inform ourselves regarding the current science on ingested fluoride as well as Arkansas’ law mandating the practice. The CDC and ADA classify ingested fluoride as ‘safe […]
Muskogee receives Water Fluoridation Quality Award
Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) announced 13 water systems have been awarded a Water Fluoridation Quality Award from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Among those receiving awards is Muskogee. Fluoridation is the adjustment of fluoride in drinking water to a level that is effective for preventing tooth decay. The award […]
Three local schools’ students can receive free dental sealants
BUHL — Buhl Middle School, Popplewell Elementary School in Buhl and Wendell Middle School are scheduled to receive free dental sealants and fluoride varnish to help prevent cavities, as part of Delta Dental of Idaho’s Grins-on-the-Go program. Buhl Middle School: beginning Tuesday — seventh- and eighth-graders Popplewell Elementary: beginning Dec. 5 — first- and second-graders […]