The House of Representatives Appropriations Interior and Environmental subcommittee voted Tuesday 7-4 to approve an appropriations bill that would cut the budget of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by nearly a third, and includes language that would prevent the agency from enforcing its decision to phase out the use of the neurotoxic fumigant sulfuryl […]
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.
Arsenic in Drinking Water: Costly Change Could Lower Levels
In early August, the Environmental Protection Agency is set to decide on a petition to change the source of fluoride in U.S. drinking water. Currently, the source of fluoride in most public water supplies is fluorosilicic acid, according to government records. The petition calls for the EPA to instead require the use of pharmaceutical-grade sodium […]
CDC names new oral health director
Katherine Weno, DDS, JD, a dentist and lawyer who heads the bureau of oral health at the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE), has been selected as the new director of the division of oral health at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta. Dr. Weno joined the KDHE as bureau […]
Will Obamacare Leave Dental Coverage Off the Table?
When the Affordable Care Act goes into effect next year, millions of Americans who have been without access to affordable medical care will be covered under Obama’s planned insurance overhaul. However, those hoping for dental work will be out of luck. The health plans that American consumers will be required to purchase will cover a […]
Will Obamacare take bite out of dental coverage?
The Affordable Care Act has no teeth. That is not to say enforcement won’t be strict—by all accounts, it will. No, the law literally has no teeth. Dental coverage was all but ignored in the sweeping health-care overhaul. So while more Americans will likely gain access to medical care when the law goes into effect […]
Calculating Fluoridation Statistics Fact Sheet
From the Division of Oral Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Engineering Monitoring health status and access to preventive interventions and evaluating quality of population-based health services are among the 10 essential public health services. National- and state-based surveys monitor the oral health status of the U.S. population and the Water Fluoridation Reporting […]
Peer reviewers for revised HHS & EPA’s risk assessment for fluoridation
HHS Recommendation for Fluoride Concentration in Drinking Water for Prevention of Dental Caries Subject of Planned Report: Recommended fluoride content (mg/L) in community water systems to prevent dental caries (tooth decay) Purpose of Planned Report: To update and replace previous U.S. Public Health Service recommendations for adjusted fluoride concentration in drinking water to prevent dental […]
Why Reporting Nitrogen Trifluoride (NF3) Matters
The Greenhouse Gas Protocol now requires nitrogen trifluoride (NF3), a chemical released in some high-tech industries including electronics manufacturing, to be included in GHG inventories under the Corporate Standard, Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard, and Product Standard. The amendment keeps the GHG Protocol’s reporting requirements aligned with those of the United Nations Framework Convention on […]
ADA’s American Dental Political Action Committee presents awards
Awards presented during the May 13-15 Washington Leadership Conference in the nation’s capital recognize grassroots activity by American Dental Political Action Committee dentists. Read the ADA’s full article
Did You Know Your Fluoridated Water Is Full of Cancer-Causing Arsenic?
According to the Fluoride Action Network, municipalities around the country are adding industrial-grade fluoride to our drinking water instead of pharmaceutical-grade fluoride. The industrial stuff contains enough arsenic to make us sick, and is costing us billions in extra health costs each year. Industrial-grade fluoride chemicals added to US public water supplies contain arsenic that […]