Fluoride Action Network (FAN) has delivered a 100-page report to the Environmental Justice Interagency Working Group entitled “Water Fluoridation and Environmental Justice” outlining the dangers posed by this practice to poor families and communities of color. Since 1962 officials at the U.S. Public Health Service have known that Blacks are disproportionately harmed by fluoride with […]
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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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Port Angeles City Council hopefuls agree on park trees, fluoridation
PORT ANGELES — City Council candidates Michael Merideth and Marolee Smith displayed few policy differences at a general election campaign forum Tuesday, lining up together on cutting down obstructive trees at city-owned Lincoln Park and fluoridation of city water. Both said park trees should be cut back to unblock runway access to the Port of […]
DentaQuest Foundation funds Toolkit in effort to defeat those opposed to fluoridation
Note from Fluoride Action Network: The following is on the Fluoridation Toolkit website [click on The opposition: who they are and what they say]. The Community Toolkit is a recently released series of strategies and propaganda tactics to enable federal and state medical professionals to fight for fluoridation and to discredit those opposed. It was […]
Snowmass: Pitkin County health officials support fluoride in water
Pitkin County public health officials are coming out in support of drinking water fluoridation as the deadline for Snowmass Villagers to weigh in on their district’s practice looms. The Snowmass Water and Sanitation District board voted in July to stop adding fluoride to its drinking water, but many of its customers came out against the […]
Illinois OKs lower fluoride levels
… The decision by the Illinois Pollution Control Board to cut the required level of fluoride by 30 percent is expected to reduce costs to municipal and private drinking water systems without affecting the oral health benefits of fluoride. The board’s decision came in response to a recommendation issued in May by the U.S. Department […]
Clean Water Sonoma-Marin Movie Night 9/24: Our Daily Dose & Q&A
Thursday September 24, 2015 MOVIE: Our Daily Dose (2015) A 17 minute documentary about water fluoridation by award-winning film maker Jeremy Siefert PLACE: SUNRISE CENTER, 645 Tamalpais Drive, Corte Madera DATE: Thursday September 24, 2015 TIME: 7:00-9:00 pm DIRECTIONS: From Hwy 101, take the Tamilpais exit, and go west on Tamilpais Drive. See the map […]
Asheville: Water fluoridation faces tipping point
With city council elections coming up, Raleigh’s attempt to commandeer Asheville’s water system remains in court. A related concern has been put off long enough. For 50 years, Asheville has medicated its water customers with fluoride. City voters approved, and the practice began in 1965. County voters had previously opposed fluoridation, but the N.C. Supreme […]
Sulfuryl fluoride: Report details training, equipment problems of fumigator being sued by poisoned Palm City family
MARTIN COUNTY — The termite control company that fumigated a Palm City house where three family members later got sick, one seriously, had poorly maintained devices for checking that the house was clear for people to enter afterward, according to the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Affairs. State investigators concluded that of Sunland Pest […]
Olympic Medical Center board endorses fluoridation of Port Angeles city water
PORT ANGELES — Olympic Medical Center commissioners listened to both sides of the fluoridation issue, then voted unanimously without comment to support it in Port Angeles. After voting Wednesday, they issued a written statement Thursday saying those would be their last words on the subject. Commissioners John Beitzel, Jim Cammack, Jean Hordyk, Jim Leskinovitch, Dr. […]
Aspen: Fluoride factions have their say with Water & Sanitation
While working at a practice in the Eagle River valley, dental hygienist Jayme Hovland said she could tell the difference between kids who lived in Gypsum and those who resided in the nearby town of Eagle. Eagle residents drink water that’s fluoridated, resulting in “less cavities” than the patients she’d see from Gypsum, Hovland said. […]