EXCERPT from Drinking Water: The Need For Constant Innovation … Taking precautions and identifying risks … Risk identification of a quite different kind is the subject of the “Water Resource Quality” research project (WRQ). Worldwide, millions of people rely on groundwater contaminated with health-threatening arsenic or fluoride of natural (geogenic) origin. With the aid of […]
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.
Global Fluoride & Arsenic Contamination Map
Swiss researchers have mapped the levels of arsenic and fluoride in groundwater all over the world hoping to provide a starting point for planning future drinking water projects and to avoid drinking water contamination in developing countries. The team of researchers led by Annette Johnson from the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, […]
Fluoride: lowering IQ’s?
••• Note from FAN: This undated article was published online close to May 1, 2008 ••• New studies from China show that an excessive intake of fluoride can accumulate in the brain, permanently reducing a child’s intelligence. Two suburban villages in Shanxi Province in China are very much alike – except for the level of […]
Palestine’s water to have fluoride starting April 15
PALESTINE — Starting April 15, Palestine’s drinking water will have an extra additive — fluoride. Notices are being sent with city water bills alerting residents that the fluoridation will begin mid-April, according to city utilities director Robert Sedgwick. Notices also are being sent to area medical and dental offices, Palestine Regional Medical Center and offices […]
Ethiopia: Over 14 Million At Risk of Fluorosis – Ministry
More than 14 million Ethiopians may be potentially at risk of fluorosis, a dental problem which affects the colour and texture of human white teeth, the Ministry of Water Resources announced citing a recent assessment. Various studies conducted show that dental, skeletal and crippling fluorosis associated with excessive fluoride in drinking water is becoming a […]
The ‘F’ word
There is an amusing quote in director Stanley Kubrick’s film Dr Strangelove. In the 1964 movie starring Peter Sellers, General Jack D Ripper says: “Fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face.” The quote is interesting for two reasons: firstly, it proves in an amusing way that […]
International College of Dentists promotes fluoridation in developing countries
GRAND BLANC TWP. — Dick Shick’s community work is going global this week, when as president-elect he takes the helm of the International College of Dentists. It’s an honorary group representing just 3 percent of U.S. dentists, he said. And while the group began as a way to disseminate developments and advancements in dentistry, its […]
SAIPAN: Opposition to water fluoridation arises
TAOTAO Tano CNMI Inc. is discouraging one of the island’s main water companies from producing fluoridated water, saying the compound “is toxic to human beings.” But Saipan Ice owner Eileen Olopai Pelligrino said fluoridated water is safe, adding that their product secured certification and approval from appropriate government agencies. In his letter to Pelligrino yesterday, […]
Saipan Ice touts fluoridated water
Saipan Ice and Water Inc. is working with dentists on the island to promote dental health care by distributing fluoridated water. The only difference between regular water and fluoridated water is that fluoride is added. There is no difference in taste at all, according to Saipan Ice. Eileen Olopai-Pellegrino, president of Saipan Ice, said she […]
United Arab Emirates: dentists call for adding fluoride to tap water
DUBAI — The local Scientific Committee of FDI (International Dental Federation) has urged the authorities to compulsorily include fluoride in tap water in the UAE. During the closing ceremony of the FDI Annual Dental Congress 2007, Dr Tareq Khoury, Chairman, Scientific Committee, FDI Dubai 2007, said the water authorities in the UAE should look into […]