York Water Co.’s empire keeps seeping outward like, well, a water glass spilled on a tablecloth. It’s been moving westward, with customers in Abbottstown and Gettysburg. And southwest: It recently agreed on a deal to buy West Manheim Township’s water system. It may even soon cross the Mason-Dixon Line and provide H2O to Manchester, Md. […]
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.
Aberdeen aldermen put off water fluoridation
Aberdeen Board of Aldermen denied a measure Tuesday to become a part of the Mississippi Department of Health’s water fluoridation program after a recommendation from Water Supervisor Ed White. “You have to have more trained staff and a lot more monitoring to do it, and right now we’re just overtasked with the crew that we’ve […]
Juneau. My turn. Fluoridation: Why Europe matters
Europe largely does not fluoridate its water. For two reasons, this matters to us in Juneau as we decide whether to put fluoride back in city water. The first reason has been widely noted. Tooth decay among adults and children has declined in Europe at essentially the same rates as in the United States. This […]
Fluoridation award has special significance to Cleveland Utilities
Cleveland Utilities is one of 120 water systems across the state which has been honored with a Water Fluoridation Quality Award by the United States Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The Tennessee Department of Health announced the awards on Friday. Cleveland Mayor Tom Rowland said Saturday the award has additional significance for the […]
Alcoa worker treated at hospital in Galveston for eye injury
POINT COMFORT – A 55-year-old Alcoa operator was treated at a Galveston hospital and released early Friday afternoon after he got a caustic chemical in his eye. The man, who was not identified, was taken by air ambulance to the University of Texas Medical Branch from the Point Comfort plant around 8:30 a.m. Friday, said […]
Sound Science vs. the Anti-Fluoridation Gang (EWG and FAN)
Glaring examples of anti-fluoride paranoia have recently made the news. An outfit called FAN (Fluoride Action Network), another called the Lillie Center, and the EWG (Environmental Working Group) have weighed in with media releases that demonstrate quack modus operandi: misstatements of fact, half-truths, and dubious, cherry-picked, non-contextual data. They use a November 2006 statement by […]
Fluoride spill advisory lifted for Parleys Creek
Officials on Sunday lifted an advisory telling people and pets to avoid Parleys Creek from Mountain Dell Reservoir to Tanner Park after 1,500 gallons of fluoride emptied into a nearby pond Friday morning. Salt Lake City utility officials believe a faulty gasket is to blame for the chemical leaking from a storage tank at the […]
Fluoride spill taints Parleys Creek
People, dogs warned to avoid stream A fluoride tank overflowed at a treatment plant Friday, spurring a warning to stay out of a Salt Lake County creek this holiday weekend The 1,500-gallon spill occurred at a water treatment plant west of Mountain Dell Reservoir and next to Parleys Creek. Utility workers were able to contain […]
Hazmat teams rush to fluoride spill in Parleys Creek
A fluoride spill has hazardous material crews warning people and their pets to stay out of Parleys Creek from Mountain Dell Reservoir to Tanner Park. Authorities say nearly 2,000 gallons of the chemical spilled into the creek Friday morning. Four Hazmat teams worked to keep the fluoride from flowing beyond the dog park at the […]
Too much fluoride in Dows, Wright County, water
Excerpt: Wright County Planning and Zoning Director Chuck Elberg presented a zoning change in Section 4 of Iowa Township to the board of supervisors Aug. 27. Kevin and Colette Westaby of Belmond want to build a new house requiring a change from agricultural to residential. The supervisors granted the request. The supervisors received a report […]