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Fluoride bioassay study under scrutiny
A recent animal study by the National Toxicology Program that failed to give fluoride a totally clean bill of health is now being questioned as being maybe too lenient on the widely used tooth decay preventative. Also, a government panel appointed to assess the risks and benefits of human exposure to fluoride and to put […]
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The Risks of Fluoride: The Long Awaited Verdict
If it were any other chemical, the news that fluoride may cause cancer would probably have been greeted with little more than mutters about the latest cancer causing substances of the week. But fluoride is no ordinary chemical. Added to public drinking water for 45 years in an effort to reduce tooth decay, it has […]
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ACSH Considers Legal Action Against Attempts to Reclassify Fluoride
The American Council on Science and Health said last week that it will seek to restrain any federal agency from banning or seeking to reclassify fluoride from a non-carcinogen to a probable carcinogen. “If the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) tries to undermine the public confidence in fluoride, we will take steps to stop them,” said […]
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ACSH Considers Legal Action Against Attempts to Reclassify Fluoride
The American Council on Science and Health said last week that it will seek to restrain any federal agency from banning or seeking to reclassify fluoride from a non-carcinogen to a probable carcinogen. “If the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) tries to undermine the public confidence in fluoride, we will take steps to stop them,” said […]
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Weak Link on Fluoride and Cancer Is Backed
A panel of scientific experts today endorsed the findings of a Federal investigation showing that a compound widely used to fluoridate public water supplies may cause bone cancer in male rats. The panel found that the evidence inconclusively demonstrated a weak association between fluoride consumption and the bone cancer in male rats. Federally sponsored scientists […]
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Rat Study Reignites Dispute On Fluoride
A long-smoldering dispute over the safety of fluoridating public water supplies has flared anew, forcing the nation’s top health officials to reevaluate the risks and benefits of using fluorides to reduce tooth decay. The latest review was triggered by a Congressionally mandated study that recently reported evidence that high doses of fluoride may cause cancer […]
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Caries Preventative Already Has One Rap Against It
The unexpected positive results from the National Toxicology Program’s (NTP) rodent study of fluoride carcinogenicity will make it difficult for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) not to classify fluoride a carcinogen, thereby terminating 40 years of public-water fluoridation in the United States. Validated pathology results officially released by the NTP showed that, among male rats, […]
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Don’t Drink the Water? Brush your teeth, but the fluoride from your tap may not do much good — and may cause cancer
Remember the great fluoride debate? Back in the 1950s, every voice of authority, from the U.S. Public Health Service to the PTA, supported adding fluoride to the water supply as an effective and totally safe way to promote healthy teeth. The only opponents seemed to be John Birchers and other extremists who regarded the scheme […]
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Fluoride Linked to Bone Cancer in Fed Study
FLUORIDE appears to have caused bone cancer in rodents in a recently completed National Toxicology Progran (NTP) study, and the chemical is now at risk of being classified a carcinogen, according to internal documents and statements obtained by MEDICAL TRIBUNE from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). “Early this year, EPA received a phone call from […]
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