For a mild-mannered public health researcher, Lindsay McLaren attracts more than her share of haters. Google the University of Calgary professor’s name and the fourth entry declares that she is a fraud, a fanatic and a “bald-faced liar.” Another website proudly declares one of her studies “debunked.” And the emailed feedback she receives contains “an […]
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.
Fluoride is being added to more everyday products. How much is too much?
December 27, 2017 12:28 PM, Updated December 31, 2017 10:12 AM In the early 1900s, a young dentist named Frederick McKay moved to a Colorado town where the residents’ teeth — though in some cases stained chocolate brown — had far less decay than was typical back then. He and other researchers eventually linked the […]
2017. Cryolite: U.S. Estimated Annual Agricultural Pesticide Use
Cryolite Use by Year: 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 Epest-High Epest-Low CAUTION: State-based and other restrictions on pesticide use were not incorporated into EPest-high or EPest-low estimates. EPest-low estimates usually reflect these restrictions because […]
Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid
SAN FRANCISCO — At Rainbow Grocery, a cooperative in this city’s Mission District, one brand of water is so popular that it’s often out of stock. But one recent evening, there was a glittering rack of it: glass orbs containing 2.5 gallons of what is billed as “raw water” — unfiltered, untreated, unsterilized spring water, […]
Parsons fluoride grant
In a meeting held Thursday night, commissioners discussed whether or not the city would move forward with the grant. Although the grant covers some of the funding for the project, the city will invest an extra $100,000, which is already budgeted, to continue with the project. The city stopped the process of adding fluoride to […]
State negligent as regards fluoride
In the week before Christmas, I submitted, to the Irish and European authorities, a document on mandatory fluoridation of drinking water. This policy mandates by national legislation, that citizens, residents, and visitors to Ireland must consume fluoride in water and in associated beverages and foods. The document was co-signed by many academics, scientists, medical doctors, […]
Jagalur: People “fall sick often due to high fluoride content in borewell water”
A reserved constituency for Scheduled Tribes, Jagalur is in Davangere district. Jagalur has emerged as a strong Congress bastion with back to back victories for the party. The constituency is said to have gotten its name from a saint, Jogappa. People of the constituency fall sick often due to high fluoride content in borewell water […]
Prakasam district: public were dying with fluorosis, kidney disease
Ongole: The Ongole MP, YV Subbareddy met the Union Minister for Finance Arun Jaitley in New Delhi and requested him to include the Prakasam district as one of the backward districts and include it along with the 115 backward districts in the action plan of development by the Central government, according to a press note […]
Grand Marais area: Free fluoride well-testing
Who: Oral Health Task Force Where: Families, day-cares, and other homes where children either live or visit on a consistent basis When: Sunday, 12/31/2017 (All day) The Oral Health Task Force is offering free fluoride well-testing for families, day-cares, and other homes where children either live or visit on a consistent basis. This offer includes pre-natal moms […]
Protesters push for councils to remove fluoride from water
Some councils are holding out on adding fluoride to water after being lobbied by anti-fluoride protestors. The Australian Dental Association is rolling out its own campaign to combat the “fear-mongering” of protestors. Paediatric dentist, Dr Sarah Raphael, tells Warren Moore decades of studies have shown the benefits of fluoridated water. “It’s difficult to believe there […]