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  • The 2nd Citizens’ Conference on Fluoride: A Summary

    According to Ralph Nader, “Attendance of scientists from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and three of the National Research Council’s panel members, among others, makes the Fluoride Action Network’s conference more than ordinary. The NRC’s review of the EPA’s safe drinking water standards and the Harvard study on fluoridation and osteosarcoma this past May provide contemporary material for opening the public debate further and deeper.”

  • Public health threat? Interview with Declan Waugh

    BANDON based environmental scientist Declan Waugh has called on the Government, in line with that done already by other European Union (EU) member states, to immediately end its policy of water fluoridation based on scientific knowledge that it is harmful to human health, marine life and the environment. His case for Ireland harmonising its public […]

  • Why Environmentalists Should Oppose Fluoridation

    I am very heartened by the fact that David Brower, Executive Director of the Sierra Club from 1952-64, Founder of Friends of the Earth, and Founder of Earth Island Institute, has agreed to become a founding member of the Fluoride Action Network (FAN). He joins several other prominent environmental activists, including Edward Goldsmith (publisher of […]

  • Sulfuryl Fluoride

    Dow AgroSciences won! The rest of us lost. The use of sulfuryl fluoride as a food fumigant on post-harvest food was first approved by the US EPA Office of Pesticides in 2004. This decision led EPA to approve the highest levels of fluoride residues on food in its history – see the levels here.  According […]

  • March 23, 2004: Objections to Sulfuryl Fluoride Pesticide Tolerance. Final Rule.

    Written Objections and Request for Hearing in the matter of: Sulfuryl Fluoride; Pesticide Tolerance. Final Rule. Docket control number OPP-2003-0373 March 23, 2004 Submitted to  Office of the Hearing Clerk (1900C), Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW.,  Washington, DC 20460-0001 James Hollins, Information Resources and Services Division (7502C), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, […]

  • Sulfuryl Fluoride – FAN’s Comments to EPA, March 18, 2002

    Sulfuryl Fluoride March 18, 2002, comments submitted to EPA on Dow AgroSciences petition to establish Fluoride and Sulfuryl fluoride tolerances for a large number (40) of raw and processed foods. (Federal Register, February 15, 2002) -See list of tolerances below – US EPA Docket control number PF-1068 Submitted by Paul Connett, Professor of Chemistry, St. […]

  • Sulfuryl Fluoride – FAN’s first Objection & Request for Hearing, April 8, 2002

    Written Objections and Request for Hearing in the matter of: Sulfuryl fluoride; Temporary Pesticide Tolerances. Final Rule. Docket control number OPP-301166A Submitted by Ellen and Paul Connett 82 Judson Street, Canton New York 13617 Tel: 315-379-9200. Fax: 315-379-0448 Email: wastenot@northnet.org April 8, 2002 Note: Some of the online links cited in the original submission are […]

  • In Response to Paul Wilson and the York Review

    The following letter is in response to the recently released York Review. The writer, Paul Connett, was a peer reviewer of the study. A synopsis of the York Review can be accessed on the web at http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7265/855 October 11, 2000 Letters-to-the-Editor, British Medical Journal Dear Editor, As an invited peer reviewer of the York Review […]

  • A Critique of the York Review – by Paul Connett, PhD

    A Critique of the York Review (“Fluoridation of Drinking Water: a Systematic Review of its Efficacy and Safety” by the NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, the University of York, York, UK., published in October 2000.) 1. Introduction. The reviewer’s background. 1.1 I obtained my first degree from Cambridge University in Natural Sciences and my […]

  • Review of the EU SCHER report, June 21, 2011

    July 3, 2011 Good for Advocates but Bad for Science and a Terrible Model for Public Participation. On June 21, 201, SCHER (the European Union’s Scientific Committee on Health and Environmental Risks) published the final version of a report entitled, Critical review of any new evidence on the hazard profile, health effects, and human exposure to […]