Is Bay Area Water Safe for Bottle-Fed Babies? The Centers for Disease Control and the American Dental Association agree that babies fed formula made with tap water are at risk of ingesting too much fluoride. Yet most Bay Area water districts fail to warn parents of the risk. On Saturday, March 22, concerned citizens will […]
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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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Wolfforth not alone: New Home, Morton also received notices about fluoride in water supply
Wolfforth is not the only city in Texas to receive a letter from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ordering it to decrease the amount of fluoride in the city’s water supply. According to Joe Hubbard, a media relations official with the EPA offices in Dallas, New Home and Morton received similar administrative orders from the […]
The Toxins That Threaten Our Brains
Leading scientists recently identified a dozen chemicals as being responsible for widespread behavioral and cognitive problems. But the scope of the chemical dangers in our environment is likely even greater. Why children and the poor are most susceptible to neurotoxic exposure that may be costing the U.S. billions of dollars and immeasurable peace of mind. […]
Andrews: Largest U.S. fluoride treatment plant to receive new fluoride removal system
Andrews Fluoride & Arsenic Treatment Plant, located in Andrews, Texas, will soon receive a new fluoride removal system that enables the city to remove elevated levels of both fluoride and arsenic to below minimum drinking water standards of 2.0 ppm. Provided by Severn Trent Services, a global supplier of water and wastewater treatment solutions, the […]
Paulsboro residents warned of contaminated water
Residents of Paulsboro, New Jersey are being warned about chemicals that have contaminated their drinking water. Residents have been advised to use bottled water instead of tap water for children under the age of one. The mayor is calling on Solvay to clean up their act, and clean up Paulsboro’s water. Home videos show Melissa […]
Sheridan: Water treatment plant timeline indicates fluoride could be added by late August
Work continues on conventional upgrades to the Sheridan and Big Goose water treatment plants with an estimated completion date of October 2014. Sheridan Area Water Supply Joint Powers Board Project Manager Dan Coughlin gave the board a memo at its meeting Wednesday that outlined a time frame for major components of the upgrade. Highlights include: […]
Top U.S. scientific misconduct official quits in frustration with bureaucracy
The director of the U.S. government office that monitors scientific misconduct in biomedical research has resigned after 2 years out of frustration with the “remarkably dysfunctional” federal bureaucracy. David Wright, director of the Office of Research Integrity (ORI), writes in a scathing resignation letter obtained by ScienceInsider that the huge amount of time he spent […]
Milwaukee: Free dental care available to MPS students at 46 schools
NOTE FROM FAN: Milwaukee has been fluoridated since July 1953 and the state of Wisconsin fluoridates 89.4% of its public water supplies. Two tiny kindergarten students reclining in portable dental chairs set up in the art and music classroom at the Henry David Thoreau Elementary School received free dental hygiene services one morning last week.Dental […]
Tertiary Minerals receives positive results at MB Fluorspar In Nevada
Tertiary Minerals PLC Monday said it has received positive results from final drilling at the MB Fluorspar project in the US state of Nevada and has awarded the contract to complete the site’s first JORC Mineral Resource Estimate. The AIM-traded fluorspar developer said results from two holes in the southern area of the site showed […]
Bay seals’ contamination with chemical puzzling
There’s a mystery afoot in San Francisco Bay, where harbor seals are contaminated with high levels of a man-made chemical that was pulled from production 12 years ago, and scientists can’t figure out why or what the effects are. Perfluorooctanesulfonic acid – once the primary ingredient in Scotchgard – has remained elevated in harbor seals even […]