Pesticide Provisions in Farm Bill Key Development: Farm bill includes language requiring EPA to exclude nonpesticidal sources of fluoride in aggregate risk assessment of sulfuryl fluoride residues. Impact: Language would prevent EPA from moving ahead with proposed withdrawal of sulfuryl fluoride tolerances, according to the Fluoride Action Network. What’s Next: The Senate is expected to […]
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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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Backdoor Farm Bill Amendment Orders EPA to Ignore Unsafe Levels of Fluoride in Kid’s Food
With the U.S. House of Representatives’ passage of the Agriculture Act of 2014 (commonly known as the Farm Bill) yesterday, conventional farming allies and chemical agribusiness dealt a dangerous blow to children’s health protections and offered up yet another reason for consumers everywhere to support organic. The behind-closed-door amendment to the Farm Bill that appeared […]
Kids to get more brain-damaging fluoride thanks to Dow’s lobbyists
The Farm Bill that the House passed today and the Senate will vote on contains a provision that overrides a ruling by EPA that the toxic fumigant sulfuryl fluoride leaves unsafe levels of fluoride on food, reports the Fluoride Action Network (FAN). The aggregate dose that children receive from these residues along with the fluoride […]
House Passes Farm Bill; Legislation Protects Sulfuryl Fluoride Food Uses
Section 10015 of the legislation precludes the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from considering non-pesticidal fluoride as part of sulfuryl fluoride’s aggregate risk assessment, as required by the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Update: On Jan. 29, the U.S. House of Represenatives passed an almost $100 billion-a-year, compromise farm bill that contains language retaining the […]
Request A Test Offers New Fluoride Testing
Request A Test, a leading national provider of direct to consumer lab testing, has expanded their test offerings to include blood and urine fluoride testing. Fluoride is a mineral which can be beneficial in healthy amounts but can cause serious health complications if a person is over exposed. Testing a person’s fluoride levels can make […]
Fluoridation fails as America’s cavity crisis escalates
Today is the 69th birthday of water fluoridation – the top public health blunder of all time, reports the New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc. (NYSCOF) Instead of spreading less tooth decay across the land, fluoridation spread dental fluorosis (fluoride-discolored teeth) into every nook and cranny of America. Even though the CDC reports […]
Why Is the US getting in the way of international efforts to make clean water a basic human right?
On 21 November 2013 the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee (The Committee) adopted a resolution on “The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation.” There, all UN member states agreed that the rights to water and sanitation are derived from the right to an adequate standard of living. As a result, these rights are […]
Telepresence Options Promotes Charities Founded and Supported by Members of the Telepresence Industry
Non-Profit Organizations Recognized in Telepresence Options Publications Telepresence Options, the leading publishing company in visual collaboration recently reported on key charities founded or supported by members of the telepresence industry, including Bicycles for Humanity, Vacations for Veterans, Kiva, the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, Amazon Cares, and Fluoride Action Network. The non-profit Bicycles for Humanity, founded […]
Reference Statistics on Water Fluoridation Status
From the Division of Oral Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention The adjustment of fluoride in drinking water to levels optimum for oral health was first implemented in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1945. The first surveys on water fluoridation status in the United States were compiled in 1952 by the American Dental Association Council […]
2012 Water Fluoridation Statistics by State for the U.S.
From the Division of Oral Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention These statistics were prepared using water system data reported by states to the CDC Water Fluoridation Reporting System as of December 31, 2012, and the US Census Bureau state population estimates for 2012. National Water Fluoridation Statistics Total US population, peoplea 313,914,040 US […]