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 […]
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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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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 […]
Kids to get more brain-damaging fluoride thanks to Dow’s lobbyists
The Farm Bill that the House passed today and the Senate will vote on contains a provision that overrides a ruling by EPA that the toxic fumigant sulfuryl fluoride leaves unsafe levels of fluoride on food, reports the Fluoride Action Network (FAN). The aggregate dose that children receive from these residues along with the fluoride […]
House Passes Farm Bill; Legislation Protects Sulfuryl Fluoride Food Uses
Section 10015 of the legislation precludes the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from considering non-pesticidal fluoride as part of sulfuryl fluoride’s aggregate risk assessment, as required by the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Update: On Jan. 29, the U.S. House of Represenatives passed an almost $100 billion-a-year, compromise farm bill that contains language retaining the […]
Open Pinellas commission seat drawing much interest
Just one day after Pinellas County Commissioner Susan Latvala announced she would not seek re-election, the crowd of candidates — and potential candidates — that has emerged to succeed her has grown to include nearly a dozen people. Latvala’s District 4 seat, which she has represented since 2000, covers most of North Pinellas, folding into […]
Wellington votes to stop fluoridating water
After hours of of heated debate between medical experts, residents and council members, the Wellington council late Tuesday voted 3-2 to stop fluoridating its drinking water after 14 years of adding the chemical to fight tooth decay. “What if science is wrong right now,” said Councilman John Greene, who voted along with Vice Mayor Howard […]
Request A Test Offers New Fluoride Testing
Request A Test, a leading national provider of direct to consumer lab testing, has expanded their test offerings to include blood and urine fluoride testing. Fluoride is a mineral which can be beneficial in healthy amounts but can cause serious health complications if a person is over exposed. Testing a person’s fluoride levels can make […]