Clarity on public access to pave way for decision on trial Little progress in obtaining public science, judge says Advocacy groups that want fluoride banned from drinking water can argue in court that the government should make the federal scientific information and comments they seek public, a federal district court judge said Thursday. Once the […]
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.
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Fluoride Plaintiffs Urge Judge Not To Wait For ‘Partisan’ Review Of NTP Study.
Anti-fluoridation groups are accusing several federal agencies of suppressing draft National Toxicology Program (NTP) findings on fluoride’s neurotoxic effects out of “partisan interests” in defending the practice, as they renew their push for a federal judge to use those documents in their long-delayed suit seeking a TSCA rule to ban or limit fluoridation. Plaintiffs in Food […]
Derrick Broze Interview – The Active Suppression Of The Damning #FluorideTrial Report
Joining me today is founder and editor of The Conscious Resistance and writer for The Last American Vagabond, Derrick Broze, here to discuss the ongoing #FluorideTrial and the recent report that was supposed to conclude the over four year process, yet this report was suppressed indefinitely with no explanation by the combined efforts of the CDC, NIH & HHS, including the personal […]
Green Groups Fight Another Bid To Delay Fluoride Risks Case.
Environmental groups on Thursday asked a California federal judge to reject federal regulators’ bid to delay the restart of a suit about the potential health risks of water fluoridation, and claimed an ongoing government review of a critical study has no end date and the document may never be published. Food & Water Watch and […]
Internal CDC Emails Claim Assistant Secretary For Health Blocked Release Of Fluoride Review.
Newly released emails reveal that leadership within the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Institute of Health acted to prevent the release of long-delayed review of fluoride’s toxicity by the National Toxicology Program. The emails specifically claim that Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine intervened to stop the release of the NTP review, also […]
Agency Verdict on Whether Fluoride Harms IQ May Not Be Published
The public may never see a federal health agency’s conclusions about whether fluoride can harm children’s IQ when consumed in drinking water, according to newly filed documents in a federal district court. The director of the National Toxicology Program (NTP), which is run as a partnership of three federal health agencies, will decide next year […]
Judge Lifts Stay In Fluoride Trial In Narrow Bid To Obtain Draft NTP Report.
Excerpt: The judge overseeing anti-fluoridation groups’ long-running suit over EPA’s denial of their petition to ban fluoridation under TSCA has lifted his years-long stay to try to obtain the latest draft of a key scientific report on the mineral’s toxicity so that he and the parties in the case can review it to determine if […]
TSCA citizen petitions face uncertain path in court.
Recent filings highlight challenges in convincing courts to force agency action. Recent activity in a pair of long-simmering lawsuits has shined a fresh light on the challenges organisations face in compelling the US EPA to act on chemicals of concern through TSCA ‘citizen petitions’. Public health advocates this week asked a federal court in California […]
Fluoride: Potential Developmental Neurotoxicity
The following was added to the National Toxicology website on April 28, 2022: see https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/whatwestudy/assessments/noncancer/completed/fluoride/index.html Topic Overview CASRN: 16984-48-8 Status: Topic under evaluation Background Information Fluoride is added to municipal water supplies and dental products, such as toothpaste, to prevent or reduce tooth decay. People are primarily exposed to fluoride from drinking water and use […]
FAN’s Letter to Rick Woychik, PhD, on ADA’s Comments on the NTP Report.
See pdf of letter here February 22, 2022 Rick Woychik, Ph.D. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences 111 TW Alexander Drive Durham, NC 27709 Re: ADA’s Comments on NTP Report Dear Dr. Woychik, We write today to comment on a letter that the American Dental Association (ADA) recently wrote to the National Toxicology Program (NTP), […]