Adjusting the fluoride content of water is a safe and healthy practice that prevents tooth decay and provides significant oral health benefits for a community. For the greatest benefits to occur, it is important to consistently maintain optimum fluoride levels. The three fluoride additives used for water fluoridation are derived principally from phosphate fertilizer production. […]
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.
Water fluoridation and ADHD: Newsweek wades into the quagmire
The following is a guest blog post by Alan Cassels, a pharmaceutical policy researcher at the University of Victoria and the author of Seeking Sickness: Medical Screening and the Misguided Hunt for Disease (Greystone, 2012). The opinions are his; you are welcome to your own. No randomized trial has ever been done to prove if adding […]
Why the hate for fluoride?
It Was Officially Classified A Neurotoxin By Best-Known, Peer-Reviewed Medical Journal Last Year Thanks to the green movement, people are now learning the truth behind certain ingredients, foods, and medicines thought to be a-okay but were independently proven not to be. The biggest exposure accomplished by this movement are the dangers of genetically modified organisms. […]
“Sugar Papers” Reveal Industry Role in 1970s Dental Program
A newly discovered cache of industry documents reveals that the sugar industry worked closely with the National Institutes of Health in the 1960s and ‘70s to develop a federal research program focused on approaches other than sugar reduction to prevent tooth decay in American children. An analysis of those papers by researchers at UC San […]
Sugar Industry Influence on the Scientific Agenda of the National Institute of Dental Research’s 1971 National Caries Program: A Historical Analysis of Internal Documents
Abstract: Background In 1966, the National Institute of Dental Research (NIDR) began planning a targeted research program to identify interventions for widespread application to eradicate dental caries (tooth decay) within a decade. In 1971, the NIDR launched the National Caries Program (NCP). The objective of this paper is to explore the sugar industry’s interaction with […]
Water Fluoridation Linked to Higher ADHD Rates
See Newsweek article New research shows there is a strong correlation between water fluoridation and the prevalence of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, or ADHD, in the United States. It’s the first time that scientists have systematically studied the relationship between the behavioral disorder and fluoridation, the process wherein fluoride is added to water to prevent […]
Dentist: Some toothpastes, mouthwashes stain teeth
Mount Kisco dentist Dr. Carolyn Clemenza noticed more patients coming in with brown spots on their teeth, and found many of them were using mouthwashes and toothpastes that can cause staining. Everybody knows that red wine and coffee can stain your teeth. But what if you found out your mouthwash or toothpaste was doing the […]
Black kids in the US have twice as many untreated cavities as white ones
Racial inequalities abound in the US, and those inequalities start at a very young age. Black infants are 2.4 times as likely to die compared with white infants. Black kids are three times more likely to be expelled from school compared with white kids. And when it comes to oral health, black children are twice […]
Fluoride Monitoring Available for Semiconductor Fabrication Wastewater Treatment
Electronics manufacturing engineers and plant technicians in need of a fluoride measurement solution will find that the new fluoride monitoring system from Electro-Chemical Devices (ECD) provides a highly accurate turn-key analyzer solution for semiconductor wastewater treatment processes, ECD says. The next-generation fluoride monitoring system from ECD is designed with its new dual-channel T80 Universal Transmitter […]
New Data Suggest Water Fluoridation Linked to Hypothyroidism
Higher levels of fluoride in drinking water appear to be associated with an increased risk for hypothyroidism in a new study from England, raising concerns about the validity of community fluoridation of water as a safe public-health measure. In particular, when a comparison was drawn between the West Midlands, a completely fluoridated area (0.7 mg/L […]