Fluoride Action Network (FAN) has delivered a 100-page report to the Environmental Justice Interagency Working Group entitled “Water Fluoridation and Environmental Justice” outlining the dangers posed by this practice to poor families and communities of color. Since 1962 officials at the U.S. Public Health Service have known that Blacks are disproportionately harmed by fluoride with […]
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.
DentaQuest Foundation funds Toolkit in effort to defeat those opposed to fluoridation
Note from Fluoride Action Network: The following is on the Fluoridation Toolkit website [click on The opposition: who they are and what they say]. The Community Toolkit is a recently released series of strategies and propaganda tactics to enable federal and state medical professionals to fight for fluoridation and to discredit those opposed. It was […]
Sulfoxaflor: Metabolites
Note from the Fluoride Action Network: Molecular structure for Sulfoxaflor (see more information on its toxicity) Excerpts X11519540 (sulfonyl metabolite) approximately two times more toxic than parent sulfoxaflor X11579457 X11596066 (ethyl metabolite) X11718922 (identified in the Australian report) X11719474 X11721061 PAGE 273-274: Toxicological data on metabolites X11719474, the major soil and plant metabolite of […]
Health Resources in Action counsels promoters of fluoridation
Despite its proven effectiveness at promoting oral health in a safe, cost-effective, and equitable manner, water fluoridation cannot win on its scientific merits alone. Unfounded claims and half-truths promoted by a very small but vocal, well-organized minority opposed to water fluoridation have prompted a longstanding, heated political discourse. Health Resources in Action (HRiA) has piloted […]
Sulfoxaflor: Court revokes approval of insecticide, citing ‘alarming’ decline in bees
Note from the Fluoride Action Network • A fluoridated pesticide • Molecular formula for Sulfoxaflor: C10-H10-F3-N3-O-S • See a review of it’s toxicity An appeals court Thursday overturned federal approval of an insecticide used on a variety of crops, ruling that it could hasten an already “alarming” decline in bees. The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of […]
Ten-year-old suffers traumatic brain injury after home fumigated with sulfuryl fluoride
A young Florida boy and his family are reeling after a routine termite treatment resulted in a devastating outcome. Ten-year-old Peyton McCaughey of Palm City, Florida has been in the hospital for weeks following a severe reaction to chemicals used to fumigate his family’s home. According to news reports, the fumigation was performed by Sunland Pest […]
Love Canal hero speaks out against water fluoridation, joins growing calls for Fluoridegate Hearings
The woman who helped birth modern awareness of harm from hazardous chemicals is voicing her opposition to the practice of water fluoridation and calling for investigative Fluoridegate hearings. Lois Gibbs drew national attention to buried hazardous wastes in Love Canal, New York. Her actions helped capture the attention of the nation and resulted in then-President […]
Toxic Toothpaste Ingredients You Need to Avoid
Story at-a-glance Your mouth is highly absorbent, so chemicals lurking in your toothpaste get a fast-track into your bloodstream Triclosan, sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS), artificial sweeteners, fluoride, and diethanolamine (DEA) are examples of toothpaste ingredients that may be toxic You can make your own natural toothpaste at home – and remember that a healthy diet […]
People Are Still Exposed To the Teflon Chemical At Unsafe Levels, Group Says
An EWG report finds that chemicals, already shown to disrupt functioning of the endocrine system, are still present in cookware products It’s been more than a decade since investigations revealed that Teflon contained a consumer chemical called PFOA that was linked to birth defects, heart disease and other health issues, but the safety of the […]
AAP Adds Fluoride Varnish to Anticipatory Guidance Schedule
Pediatricians should make sure children’s teeth are getting varnished with fluoride, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends. The academy added the recommendation to the 2015 version of its Recommendations for Preventive Pediatric Health Care, which it published online August 31 and in the September issue of Pediatrics. “Once teeth are present, fluoride varnish may […]