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• Government Asked to Evaluate the Cancer-Causing Potential Of Fluoride in Tap Water

  WASHINGTON — Citing a strong body of peer-reviewed evidence, Environmental Working Group (EWG) today asked the National Toxicology Program (NTP) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to list fluoride in tap water in its authoritative Report on Carcinogens, based on its ability to cause a rare form of childhood bone cancer, osteosarcoma, in boys. […]

• EPA Unions Call for Nationwide Moratorium on Fluoridation

  Eleven EPA employee unions representing over 7000 environmental and public health professionals of the Civil Service have called for a moratorium on drinking water fluoridation programs across the country, and have asked EPA management to recognize fluoride as posing a serious risk of causing cancer in people. The unions acted following revelations of an apparent […]

• Not in My Water Supply

  Somebody put a dead rat in Curtis Smith’s mailbox. Someone else has made anonymous phone calls accusing him of trying to poison his neighbors. And all around the usually placid university town of Bellingham, Wash., activists from a group called Citizens Against Forced Fluoride have planted lawn signs adorned with skull and crossbones. “I had […]

• EPA Standard for Fluoride in Drinking Water Is Not Protective

  WASHINGTON — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s standard for the maximum amount of fluoride allowed in drinking water — 4 milligrams of fluoride per liter of water — does not protect against adverse health effects, says a new report from the National Academies’ National Research Council. According to the most recent data, just over 200,000 […]

• Government Panel Raises Concern About Fluoride

  A panel of the National Academy of Sciences concluded yesterday that the maximum amount of fluoride currently allowed in the nation’s drinking water can cause health problems and “should be lowered.” The report concluded that children exposed to four milligrams of fluoride per liter, the highest allowable level, risk developing severe dental fluorosis, in which […]

• Researchers pour dose of worry in fluoridated water

  Fluoride is considered an essential weapon against rotting teeth, but it also can make bones brittle. In addition, researchers suspect that the controversial substance can cause a rare bone and joint disease called skeletal fluorosis and even lower a person’s IQ. So why have Chicago and many other communities been adding fluoride to tap water […]

• 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 […]

• Don’t Drink the Water?

  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 […]

• 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 […]

• 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 […]