Fluoride is a mineral that helps prevent tooth decay. Water naturally contains fluoride but there are national and state guidelines that all suppliers need to conform to which requires adding more fluoride to public water. But now the U.S Department of Health and Human Services is thinking about lowering the required fluoride level in water […]
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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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Ormond Beach: Fluoride isn’t a menace; it’s improved public health
Ormond Beach has wisely decided to keep fluoride in its water supply. It decided to do so despite the efforts of a city commissioner who is convinced that fluoride could be a bad thing to add to drinking water. While it’s good to ask questions of government, the recent anti-fluoride efforts in Ormond Beach still […]
Department of Defense Grant Funds UGA Research into Chemical Cleanup
GRIFFIN, Ga., Sept. 20 — The University of Georgia issued the following news release: Perfluorinated chemicals keep eggs from sticking to frying pans, protect furniture from spills and help firefighters fight blazes, but studies now show that some of these chemicals–particularly the ones used to fight fires–are also toxic to laboratory animals in varying amounts. […]
Ormond leaders vote to keep fluoride in water
ORMOND BEACH –– Fluoride will stay in the city’s drinking water –– for now. Despite a more than hourlong presentation by City Commissioner Troy Kent, his colleagues chose to move ahead with the purchase of chemicals, including hydrofluorosilicic acid, otherwise known as fluoride, for the coming year’s water supply. The commission voted 4-1, with Kent […]
Pendleton: Fluoride lacking in water
Local dentists say kids may need supplements The city of Pendleton doesn’t add fluoride to its water supply because it’s too costly. And though the state recommends cities larger than 10,000 people add the supplement, it has no funds to pay for it. Fluoride, a naturally occurring tooth-strengthening chemical, prevents tooth decay in children. Pendleton […]
Opinion: Fluoride Propaganda by First Five of Sacramento
Image by: First Five are you getting fluoride? In a recent “Oral Health Begins At Birth” ad, First Five of Sacramento used disinformation to promote water fluoridation. The eight page ad was seen in the mid-August 2012 Sacramento News & Review. First Five was born out of Prop 10, using tax on tobacco to fund […]
Portland: Fluoride fighters face uphill battle in fight to get issue on ballot
Portland may be the country’s last large city to fill its cup with fluoridated water, but it’s not the first to draw the angst of residents fearful of the now common practice. The debate between dental health advocates trying to decrease tooth decay and residents leery of exposure to fluoride keeps surfacing, as cities join the fluoridation trend that started more than 60 years ago. As Portlanders take […]
Santa Fe: Councilors no longer plan to put fluoride issue up to vote
A group of Santa Fe city councilors who said they want voters to decide whether the city should add fluoride to drinking water no longer plans to put the issue on a ballot, Councilor Bill Dimas said Tuesday. But it’s still not clear what the next step in the city’s decision-making process will be. The […]
Seward: Council members seeking compromise on fluoride
The addition of fluoride to Seward’s water supply was not imminent since we had no cost estimates or engineering, but the issue has arisen due to the election. Fluoride has proponents and opponents, both very passionate about their positions on the issue. To me it is not about who is right or who is wrong. […]
Wichita: Anti-fluoridation group seeks debate opponent
An anti-fluoridation group said Monday that it’s planning to be part of a televised debate about fluoride on public television in October and is looking for two people to debate on the pro-fluoridation side. The group, Pure Water for Wichita, challenged the pro-fluoridation group Wichitans for Healthy Teeth to a televised debate in August. Don […]