This coming weekend (Sept 16, 17) the Fluoride Action Network (FAN) will bring together citizens and scientists from around the world, to the Regency Hyatt hotel in Crystal City, VA, to educate the public, the media and decision-makers about the dangers of swallowing fluoride. According to Professor of Chemistry Emeritus, Paul Connett, “the purpose 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.
New Study Quantifies Fluoride’s Potential to Lower IQ in Children
Some children may be consuming enough fluoridated water in the USA to reach doses of fluoride that have the potential to lower their IQ, according to a research team headed by William Hirzy, PhD, a former US EPA senior scientist who specialized in risk assessment and published in the journal Fluoride (Oct-Dec 2016), reports the Fluoride Action […]
Petition Asks FDA to Remove All Unapproved Fluoride Supplements from Market
LOS ANGELES – PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a “Warning Letter” that orders a manufacturer of fluoride drops and tablets to “immediately” discontinue marketing these products because FDA has never approved them as safe and effective. Now the Fluoride Action Network (FAN) has joined with The International Academy of Oral […]
Prominent MD joins chorus demanding Feds investigate fluoridation
Prominent physician, Mark Hyman, MD, author of 9 New York Times best-selling books and a Huffington Post medical editor warns that swallowing fluoride poses risks to the brain and thyroid, and that communities of color and underserved communities are disproportionately harmed. Dr. Hyman supports, “federal investigative hearings looking into why our cities and towns are allowed […]
Fluoride in Water Worsens US Lead Crisis
While the nation focuses on the catastrophic health effects caused by Flint Michigan’s lead-poisoned drinking water, fluoride chemicals are still purposely added to public water supplies even though studies show they leach lead from water pipes and increase lead levels in children, according to a report from the Fluoride Action Network (FAN). Fluorosilicic acid (FSA), […]
Fluoridation Chemical Company Fined $2 Billion
The company that gets rid of highly toxic wastes by selling them as a “product” to municipal water departments across the country as cheap fluoridation chemicals has been fined $2 billion for gross violations of the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), reports the Fluoride Action Network (FAN). Mosaic Fertilizer, LLC, is one of […]
With Science against them, CDC Promotes Fluoridation with PR, Says FAN
Science continues to report the potential for significant adverse effects from the obsolete practice of water fluoridation, reports the Fluoride Action Network (FAN). In June a major review reported that the majority of studies that underpin the rationale for community water fluoridation have been of poor quality. Yet the Centers for Disease Control and Organized […]
Are You Feeding a Brain Toxin to Your Babies?
The Fluoride Action Network (FAN) launched a nationwide billboard and poster campaign warning parents that fluoride, served to over 270 million Americans in their tap water, and often mixed with infant formula, is classified as a chemical “with substantial evidence of developmental neurotoxicity” by the EPA. The billboards ask, “Do you really want your child […]
New US Study Links Fluoridation to ADHD
“Artificial water fluoridation prevalence was significantly positively associated with ADHD prevalence,” according to research published in Environmental Health (2/15), reports the Fluoride Action Network (FAN). This is the first study to examine the relationship between exposure to fluoridated water and ADHD prevalence. Artificial fluoride chemicals (hydrofluosilicic acid) added to public water supplies attempt to match […]
NYS Governor is misled about fluoride safety by Health Department and Schuyler Center, says Fluoride Action Network
Legislation in NY Governor Cuomo’s budget chips away at local governments’ ability to stop fluoridation (proposal “M”) instigated by the Schuyler Center and the NYS Health Department and two fluoridation-promoting advocacy groups. They misrepresent fluoridation safety, reports the Fluoride Action Network (FAN). Public Health Law 1100a gives full authority to legislators to independently stop fluoridation presumably with constituent input. Before […]