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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.
Scientists call for limits on emerging class of common, long-lived chemicals
More than 200 scientists from 38 countries spoke with one voice today, calling for curbs on the global production and use of a class of chemicals found in hundreds of grease- and water-resistant industrial and consumer products. To avoid long-term harm to the environment and human health, nations should act now to limit use of […]
Public Health Service Recommendation for Fluoride Concentration in Drinking Water for Prevention of Dental Caries
Note from FAN: The Department of Health & Human Services released this same information on April 27, 2015, in Public Health Reports as noted in their press release. Summary Through this final recommendation, the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) updates and replaces its 1962 Drinking Water Standards related to community water fluoridation—the controlled addition of […]
Fluoridation vote on May 5 Oneida Council agenda
ONEIDA – Fluoridation of the water supply will be put to a vote at the May 5 Oneida Common Council meeting according to an agenda released Friday. Among other agenda items, the council will receive and place on file a form notifying the city of the intent of the Kallet Civic Center to file for […]
Due to decison by Clarksburg Water Board, future public water in Bridgeport won’t include flouride
Whether Bridgeport residents will notice it remains to be seen, but their drinking water will soon be different. Thanks to a decision by the Clarksburg Water Board Tuesday evening, fluoride will no longer be purchased and included in the water supply. The Water Board voted 2-1 to make the move. The City of Bridgeport, like […]
MWRA to lower fluoride levels
The MWRA provides wholesale water and sewer services to 2.5 million people and more than 5,500 large industrial users in 61 metropolitan Boston communities. The MWRA has fluoridated its drinking water since the 1980s, maintaining a target fluoride level of 1.0 parts per million. MALDEN – The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority is lowering the amount […]
Gloucester. Our view: Fluoridation should continue for the good of public health
For more than a year now, a debate has raged on these opinion pages and elsewhere over a public health effort that’s been carried out for decades: the community-wide fluoridation of city or town-run water systems. Recently, a number of dedicated and vocal activists have pushed hard to bring that practice to an end. That’s […]
Health officials recommend lower fluoride levels for drinking water
Worries about fluoride in water have evolved over the decades.One of the first water fluoridation studies was in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1945. Howard Pollick, fluoride spokesman for the American Dental Association, says the start date for the Grand Rapids trial was published in the newspaper, but then the study was temporarily postponed before health […]
Fluoride levels reduced for fluoridation while its safety not taken into account
On Monday, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) admitted that the fluoride levels, which they promoted and encouraged as safe, has damaged children’s teeth. Because of the huge increase in dental fluorosis (white spotted, yellow, brown and/or pitted teeth) in 41% of young teenagers, HHS says that water fluoride levels should be […]
Oregon ranks in bottom three in fluoridated water
As the federal government adjusts its recommendations on fluoride levels in public water systems, Oregon is left wondering how to get fluoride in its largest communities. Fluoride is hailed by dentists and public health as a low-cost and effective preventive measure against tooth decay. While in some places, fluoride exists naturally in the water, it […]