This is a follow-up to a letter you should have gotten from us yesterday or two days ago, about our effort to pass a bill in the Kansas Legislature that many people see as the first step toward making Kansas the first fluoride-free state in America! In case you did not get the 1st letter, […]
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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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Sebastopol votes to oppose county fluoridation plan
The Sebastopol City Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to join the city of Cotati in opposing fluoridation of Sonoma County’s drinking water, even if its own water supply would not be directly affected. The 5-0 vote came despite a written, last-minute plea from county Board of Supervisors Chairman David Rabbitt, who asked the council to […]
Farm Bill Would Prohibit Consideration Of All Fluoride Sources in Risk Assessment
Pesticide Provisions in Farm Bill Key Development: Farm bill includes language requiring EPA to exclude nonpesticidal sources of fluoride in aggregate risk assessment of sulfuryl fluoride residues. Impact: Language would prevent EPA from moving ahead with proposed withdrawal of sulfuryl fluoride tolerances, according to the Fluoride Action Network. What’s Next: The Senate is expected to […]
Point of View: Wellington council right to ban fluoride from water
Itinerant fluoridation promoters, enraged by the decision to end fluoridation in Wellington, are busily attacking the village council and those who oppose fluoridation with letters and online postings on The Post’s website. Basic common sense issues about fluoridation have kept the controversy raging for over 60 years. All other chemicals that are added to public […]
Paulsboro water saga brings lawsuit against Solvay Specialty Polymers
A class-action lawsuit has been filed by 12 borough residents against Solvay Specialty Polymers in regards to Paulsboro’s public water supply being contaminated with chemicals that were used in the company’s plastics-making enterprise. Tests of Paulsboro’s main water supply — well No. 7 — has found levels of perfluorochemicals (PFCs), such as perfluorononanoic acid (PFNA) […]
Backdoor Farm Bill Amendment Orders EPA to Ignore Unsafe Levels of Fluoride in Kid’s Food
With the U.S. House of Representatives’ passage of the Agriculture Act of 2014 (commonly known as the Farm Bill) yesterday, conventional farming allies and chemical agribusiness dealt a dangerous blow to children’s health protections and offered up yet another reason for consumers everywhere to support organic. The behind-closed-door amendment to the Farm Bill that appeared […]
Fluoride may return to Albuquerque water
Albuquerque stopped adding fluoride to drinking water in 2011 but could resume the practice under a measure introduced this week to the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority. The measure has champions among dental and child health professionals who say the mineral is vital for good oral health, especially for children. The measure, introduced Wednesday […]
Banned Scotchgard chemical still contaminating San Francisco seals
In a shallow arm of the bay, where Pacific tides cause hardly a ripple, hundreds of harbor seals lounge, mate and bear young. With placid expressions on bewhiskered faces and bulky bodies reclining on shorelines, the seals belie a disturbing burden they carry. Living on the edge of a metropolitan hub, these seals are under […]
St. Joseph: Let City Council know you don’t want fluoride in water
As a clinical psychologist for over 20 years in Missouri, including seven years as a school psychologist, I have had the responsibility to evaluate children’s intellectual ability. In interviewing parents to obtain the child’s developmental history one question routinely asked was the child’s exposure to lead… Read full letter
Yankee Dental Conference. Fluoridation: A Continuous Challenge
January 30, 2014, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM The Internet and social media have confused the American people about fluoridation with misleading and alarming information, scaring the public to discontinue or not implement fluoridation. Fluoridation is being challenged in Massachusetts and across the nation, even though 204 million Americans and 4 million state residents live […]