If your dog drinks tap water, you need to know the answer to this question … Can Dogs Have Fluoride? The answer is no … dogs shouldn’t have fluoride. Fluoride affects brain development, bone strength and may disrupt hormones. And that means, in most places, your dog shouldn’t drink tap water … or eat processed […]
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.
Study the Use of Activated Carbon and Bone Char on the Performance of Gravity Sand-Bag Water Filter
Abstract In this study, granulated activated charcoal (GAC) and bio charcoal (BC) is used as a filler in P3 biosand bag filter to study their filtration performance against a range of fluoride impurities from 1-1400 mg/L. A set of experiments are done to analyze the filtration efficiency of the sandbag filter against fluoride impurities after […]
Astronomers find the farthest evidence of fluoride to date, in a distant galaxy
This will teach us a lot about how the element forms in the Universe. An international team of astronomers reports on a new sighting of fluorine in another galaxy. This is the farthest the element has ever been detected and will help us better understand the stellar processes that lead to its creation. This artist’s […]
Modeling defluoridation of real-life groundwater by a green adsorbent aluminum/olivine composite: Isotherm, kinetics, thermodynamics and novel framework based on artificial neural network and support vector machine
Highlights AOC can efficiently remove fluoride from real-life groundwater up to 87.5%. Freundlich and Elovich models demonstrated adsorption isotherm and kinetics. Adsorption thermodynamic reflects spontaneous, endothermic, physisorption reaction. Benchmarking sorption process of synthetic and real-life water for field simulation. Neural network performed as better prediction model than support vector machine. Abstract The kinetic, isotherm, and […]
CareQuest Institute Commends WHO For Adding Three Minimally Invasive Oral Health Care Medicines to Essential Medicines Lists
CareQuest Institute for Oral Health commends the World Health Organization (WHO) for the new edition of its Model Lists of Essential Medicines (EML) and Essential Medicines for Children on Oct. 1, 2021, in which it recommended the establishment of a new section for children and adult dental preparation. The WHO’s Expert Committee added three new […]
Enamel remineralization and surface roughness after treatment with herbal-containing toothpastes
Background: Oral care products containing bioactive agents obtained from extracts of plant drugs were launched. This in vitro study investigated the effects of herbal-containing toothpastes associated or not with fluoride to remineralize the enamel after cariogenic challenge with pH cycling. The chemical and physical factors of toothpastes and the enamel surface roughness after brushing were […]
Increasing Hydrofluoric Acid Application in Metal Extraction Process Driving Hydrofluoric Acid Market
A new report by Future Market Insights delivers key insights on the global hydrofluoric acid market. The long-term outlook on the global hydrofluoric acid market remains positive, with market value expected to increase at a CAGR of 2.9% during the forecast period (2018-2028). On the basis of grade, the global hydrofluoric acid market is dominated by the […]
A holistic study on fluoride-contaminated groundwater models and its widespread effects in healthcare and irrigation
Abstract Groundwater is a key resource in the world. Its importance is often undermined, despite the various applications which include irrigation, drinking, sanitation, and industrial uses. One of the contaminants of groundwater is fluoride or the fluorine ion. Fluoride is a common pollutant of water, carrying potential benefits and costs to various sectors. Fluoride contamination […]
Highly efficient fluoride removal from water using 2D metal-organic frameworks MIL-53(Al) with rich Al and O adsorptive centers
Highlights 2D MIL-53(Al) was prepared by using the solvothermal method. 2D MIL-53(Al) was exposed to enhance the adsorption of fluoride. 2D MIL-53(Al) had good adsorptive performance at a wide range of pH. DFT calculation and experiments were investigated for removing fluoride. Abstract In this study, metal-organic framework MIL-53(Al) was synthesized and studied to understand the […]
Interaction-based ion selectivity exhibited by self-assembled, cross-linked zwitterionic copolymer membranes
Significance The separation of ions is challenging yet crucial for providing access to safe water resources as well as recovering valuable ions from water and wastewater. Yet, membranes rarely exhibit selectivity between ions of similar charge and size. We demonstrate that membranes, prepared by a fully scalable method that uses self-assembling zwitterionic copolymers, exhibit exceptional […]