The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced a proposal to eliminate mercury pollution from dental offices nationwide. These new Clean Water Act standards would cut discharges of dental amalgam – a mixture of mercury and other metals that dentists use to fill cavities. Under this proposal, dentists must use devices to remove mercury and other […]
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.
What’s Lurking in Your Toothpaste?
We all want to fight cavities and have a megawatt movie-star smile. But some toothpaste may be going too far, adding ingredients that could be bad for our overall health. Here are a few of the more insidious ingredients: Sodium Fluoride Used in Rat Poison While it’s one of the main ingredients in toothpaste, sodium […]
Sugar Is the Only Cause of Tooth Decay, Study Says
A new report says we need to stop eating so much sugar to avoid tooth decay If you don’t want tooth decay, you should seriously cut back on the sugar. According to new research published in the journal BMC Public Health, sugars are the only cause of tooth decay in kids and adults. Researchers from […]
Fluoride fights tooth decay in your youngest kids, AAP says
Researchers say you should start flouride [sic] with baby’s first teeth Tooth decay is the most common chronic disease in children, but the good news is that it also preventable. Researchers at the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) say using fluoride toothpaste, even as teeth are first emerging, is key to stopping cavities from forming. AAP […]
American Academy of Pediatrics recommendation on use of toothpaste for children
Excerpt from Fluoride Use in Caries Prevention in the Primary Care Setting: Use of fluoride toothpaste should begin with the eruption of the first tooth. When fluoride toothpaste is used for children younger than 3 years, it is recommended that the amount be limited to a smear or grain of rice size (about one-half of […]
Best-selling toothpaste contains hazardous endocrine-disrupting chemical
Triclosan Removed from Soap, But Still Found in Best-Selling Toothpaste Three years ago, Colgate-Palmolive responded to safety concerns brought forth by consumer groups by removing triclosan from its soap products. But the company left it in its best-selling toothpaste, Colgate Total. (Colgate Total is the only triclosan-containing toothpaste sold in the US.) But if triclosan […]
Beyond conflict of interest – Disclosing medical biases
Excerpts: The editors of medical and scientific journals always ask authors of papers to declare any financial conflicts of interest (COIs) related to their research. There has recently been a shift … toward asking them to disclose any potential perceived COI… Medical Conflicts of interest … I once wrote a paper for a medical law […]
Like being against motherhood or apple pie
This is an very shortened version of the longer article, Is the Government Poisoning You? Throughout our lives, we’ve all been cheated, taken advantage of and lied to by the government in one way or another. Whether it’s through absurd taxation, the breaching of our constitutional rights or corrupt political regimes, we all know the […]
Report: Phosphate fertilizers market by active ingredient, crop type & by geography: Trends & Forecasts to 2018
Ground rock phosphate has been used as a source of phosphorous for acid soils in the past. However, due to the low availability of phosphorousin rock phosphate, high transportation costs and small crop responses have reduced the usage of rock phosphate in agriculture. Alternatively, the rising diversified food demand amid rising population factors have challenged […]
5 wild consumer conspiracy theories, debunked
Excerpt: 2. Fluoride is a mind-control drug. Only a few countries fluoridate their water supplies to prevent tooth decay: the U.S., Great Britain, Canada, and Australia… The modern version of the conspiracy theory claims we learned about water fluoridation from the Nazis, who gave it to Jews in concentration camps to make them docile. But this conspiracy […]