The Reagan-Udall Foundation for the FDA, in cooperation with the Food and Drug Administration, convened a hybrid public meeting to gather input on the clinical use and safety concerns associated with orally ingestible unapproved prescription drug products containing fluoride for use in children. (0:00) Welcome (4:50) Opening Remarks (11:55) Session 1: Scope of Use of […]
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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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A Cardiologist’s Cri De Coeur for Keeping Fluoride in Water
In 1728, in “Le Chirurgien Dentiste” (The Surgeon Dentist), Pierre Fauchard — widely regarded as the father of modern dentistry — referred to significant frustrations from the “rise of people who without theory or experience” and “without principles or method” degraded the practice of dentistry. Today we face similar frustrations as America stands on the […]
The FDA’s plan on fluoride supplements is bad science
One of the most important lessons from the Covid-19 experience is that absolutes in scientific discourse are the exception. Science evolves as both controlled clinical research and real-world evidence show us how to use health care technologies to better advance the human condition. Such a tool is fluoride. Extensively studied over decades, fluoride has been […]
Nutrients Webinar | Dietary Fluoride Intake, Metabolism and Health
The webinar on “Dietary Fluoride Intake, Metabolism and Health” will provide an overview of recent research on fluoride and health, with a special focus on neurodevelopment. This session will discuss current research needs related to fluoride and neurocognition as well as other health outcomes. It will also discuss some late-breaking research underway on fluoride and […]
Fluoride and Your Health: The Good and the Bad
The debate around fluoride never seems to go away. Is the mineral good for us? Bad for us? Is adding it to drinking water a sensible public health policy? Or oppressive, forced medication? The current White House administration seems to side with the more dubious of these opinions. In April, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the […]
Trump’s EPA Fights Court Ruling on Fluoride’s Harms
The Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) continues a major legal battle that began nearly 10 years ago. Earlier this month, the EPA officially filed an appeal against a federal court ruling that found that fluoride in drinking water poses a risk to children’s brain development. The case, originally filed by parents and the Fluoride […]
Senate confirms Susan Monarez as CDC director. Here’s what she’s said about vaccines, fluoride and more.
The U.S. Senate voted Tuesday along party lines, 51 to 47, to confirm Susan Monarez as the new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. President Trump nominated her for the role in March, praising her as “an incredible mother and dedicated public servant” who “understands the importance of protecting our children, our […]
In a first, the Senate confirms a new CDC director
After months weathering staffing cuts and disease outbreaks without an official leader, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finally has a new director. The Senate confirmed Susan Monarez, a health scientist and longtime civil servant, to run the public health agency. She is the first CDC director to be confirmed by the Senate under […]
The FDA Plans to Reevaluate Fluoride Supplements
Scientists pleading fluoride’s case at a public meeting hosted by the Food and Drug Administration last Wednesday were given a cold reception by the agency’s new drug czar. George Tidmarsh, who became director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, or CDER, last Monday, didn’t seem convinced of the benefits of ingestible fluoride supplements for children […]
ADA president tells FDA fluoride supplements are safe, effective
The Food and Drug Administration held a hybrid public meeting to gather input on the clinical use and safety concerns associated with orally ingestible unapproved prescription drug products containing fluoride in the pediatric population. ADA President Brett Kessler, D.D.S., shared remarksduring the public comment section of the meeting, while several ADA National Fluoridation Advisory Committee […]