MANATEE — Manatee County has been awarded for its excellence in community water fluoridation. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gave the county a Water Fluoridation Quality Award for 2013. Community water fluoridation is the “precise adjustment of fluoride in drinking water to a level that is effective in preventing cavities,” according to a […]
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.
Altamont Capital Partners Invests in Douglas Products to Support the Acquisition of Dow AgroSciences’ Vikane and ProFume Fumigants Business
PALO ALTO, Calif. and LIBERTY, Mo., July 6, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Altamont Capital Partners (Altamont) announced today that it has provided capital to support Douglas Products, LLC’s (Douglas) purchase of the Vikane and ProFume businesses from Dow AgroSciences (a subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company; NYSE: DOW). As part of the transaction, Altamont has partnered with […]
Denver Dental Society urges dentists to send letters to keep fluoridation
This was an email sent out to dentists in Colorado Help Us Protect Denver’s Water Fluoridation Denver Water to consider discontinuation at July meeting The Denver Board of Water Commissioners will be holding a meeting to review the latest information and science surrounding community water fluoridation Meeting Details: Denver Water Board Meeting Wednesday, July 29, […]
College Station receives superior rating even without fluoride
The city of College Station is getting high marks for its water services, but not everyone is happy. Some local dentists feel like there is something missing. With a turn of a knob, there it is. Whether it’s the sink, the shower or flushing the toilet, clean water is readily available. For the 24th year […]
Corpus Christi: City drops fluoride from freshwater treatment plan
City officials say a failed pump is to blame for the fact they’ve not been adding fluoride into the city’s freshwater supply system. Fluoridated water is one of several public health initiatives touted by public health officials as a benefit to dental health. For years, municipal and retail water suppliers have introduced fluoride into the […]
ADH engineer insists it’s legal to add lead to drinking water
When Eureka Springs alderman David Mitchell attended an Arkansas Dept. of Health (ADH) meeting in April to discuss the city’s concerns about the mandate to add fluoride to drinking water, he cited state law that fluoridation opponents insist prohibits adding lead to drinking water. Mitchell provided the board with documentation of testing done on fluoridation […]
Rural water districts defy fluoridation
Eureka Springs residents are facing a July 15 start date for fluoridation throughout the Carroll Boone Water District because despite opposition from customers in Eureka Springs, CBWD board members said they felt they had no choice but to comply with a mandate passed by the state legislature in 2011. But several rural water districts in […]
Martinsville. Hershey: Keep fluoride in water
On July 14, Martinsville City Council will decide whether to remove fluoride from the city water supply for the first time in 50 years. According to West Piedmont Health District Director Dr. Jody Hershey, there are no benefits – health-related or financial – to removing fluoride from city drinking water. However, he said, there are […]
Demolition changes Paducah skyline
The demolition of a former feed plant complex at Paducah site has dramatically changed the skyline of the former uranium enrichment site. The C-410/C-420 Feed Plant was built at the Kentucky site in 1956 to produce uranium hexafluoride (UF6) for enrichment, and stood in the centre of the gaseous diffusion enrichment plant. It operated until 1977, […]
Dentists Take Advantage of Children on Medicaid
They’re raking in hundreds of millions of dollars across multiple states. Over the past couple of years, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG), which is part of the Department of Health and Human Services, has been looking into a colossal scandal across the country. Thousands of dentists have been implicated in a series of […]