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  • Chemist: Hear both sides in fluoridation debate

    I have spent the last six years researching the issue of fluoridation, with no ax to grind, and I am appalled that anyone would consider adding this biologically and pharmacologically active substance to the drinking water. Fluoride is not an essential nutrient. The level in mothers’ milk (10 parts per billion) is one hundred times […]

  • Few Americans Are Aware They Have Chronic Kidney Disease

    Ten to 20 million people in the United States have kidney disease but most don’t know it, according to researchers at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) at the National Institutes of Health, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) at […]

  • Environmental groups petition EPA to retract fluoride pesticide tolerances on food

    Two national environmental organizations, Environmental Working Group and Beyond Pesticides, joined today with the Fluoride Action Network in challenging the safety of new food tolerances issued by the EPA for the fluoride based pesticide, sulfuryl fluoride. This action marks growing concern among mainstream scientists and environmental organizations that total exposure to fluoride, from water, food, […]

  • New food pesticide dangerous for all Americans, three environmental groups warn

    New York – December 21, 2005 — Three environmental groups are urging the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to revoke their approval of sulfuryl fluoride as a pesticide fumigant on food. EPA approved sulfuryl fluoride as an alternative food fumigant to ozone-depleting methyl bromide. The groups say additional fluoride levels in food will be harmful to […]

  • FDA at odds over safety of mercury fillings

    WASHINGTON – Government health advisers rejected a federal report that concluded dental fillings used by millions of patients are safe, saying further study of the mercury-laden amalgam is needed. A joint panel of Food and Drug Administration advisers did not declare the so-called “silver fillings” unsafe. But in a 13-7 vote Thursday, the advisers said […]

  • Sodium Fluoride Proposed for Use in New Organic Standards

    Comments due by: June 12, 2000 In the proposed National Organic Standards Rule (the Rule), the USDA states its intention to allow the use of EPA’s List 4 Inerts as Allowed Substances for the production and handling of organic food… unless specifically prohibited. The List 4 Inerts includes sodium fluoride (NaF), but NaF should be […]

  • Potential for infant over-exposure to fluoride by diluting formula with too much water

    NOTE FROM FAN: While this important article does not mention fluoride, we include it because of the real potential for over-exposing an infant to fluoride. The amount of fluoride an infant receives who is fed formula made with fluoridated water, when the tap water contains 1 ppm, is estimated to be up to 250 times […]

  • Fluoridated Water Starts Trickle of a Debate

    Most dentists aren’t about to discourage people from drinking fluoridated water. After all, fluoride is credited with preventing an untold number of cavities and related tooth decay-at an estimated $1 billion to $2 billion savings in annual dental bills-since it was first added to public drinking water supplies more than 50 years ago. The American […]

  • Is Fluoride Added to Your Water? Get It Out!

    New York – June 15 — Water suppliers nationwide are required to supply consumers with annual Water Quality Reports or Consumer Confidence Reports at least once a year at around this time. “Consumers should take this yearly opportunity to check their water fluoride levels,” says attorney Paul Beeber, President, New York State Coalition Opposed to […]

  • Chloramine + Lead Pipes + Fluoride = Contaminated tap water

    The lead pollution crisis of the Washington, D.C. water supply – and the culprit that caused it, the water disinfection chemical chloramine – is a powerful example of how things can go terribly wrong when water quality problems are considered and tackled in isolation. Earlier this year, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) […]