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  • EU: Community Register on the addition of vitamins and minerals and of certain other substances to foods

    Section A: List of the vitamins and minerals which may be added to foods as listed in Annex I of Regulation (EC) No 1925/2006 and as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1170/2009 Minerals fluoride _______________________________________________________ Section B: List of the vitamin formulations and mineral substances which may be added to foods as listed in […]

  • New chemical sensor in offing for explosives detection

    Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, have synthesised a new compound that can be used to develop sensors for detecting picric acid, which is a major component of explosives. The new compound, called beta-dicyanovinyl substituted porphyrinogen, has been found to be capable of detecting picric acid at even as low a level as […]

  • ANH Open Letter to the European Food Safety Authority

    Catherine Geslain-Lanéelle Executive Director European Food Safety Authority Largo N. Palli 5/A I-43100 Parma Italy 3 February 2009 Dear Ms Geslain-Lanéelle RE TRANSPARENT SCIENTIFIC DISCUSSION ABOUT EFSA’S OPINION ON THE USE OF SODIUM MONOFLUOROPHOSPHATE IN FOOD SUPPLEMENTS We are writing this as an open letter to help ensure that interested parties and stakeholders are kept […]

  • Fluoride: Now it can be added to our food

    Fluoride can now be added to foods manufactured and supplied in Europe. It’s been classified as a safe supplement, according to Europe’s highest authority on food standards. The decision means that food manufacturers can include sodium monofluorophosphate, the common form of fluoride found in toothpaste and mouth washes, to their products. The decision, by the […]

  • Fluoridation could be part of Woodland-Davis water project

    Several local dentists and child advocates are pleading with Woodland City Council members to add fluoridation to the city’s water as construction of the Woodland-Davis Surface Water project gets under way. “Pain, malnutrition, lost days of school and work, and economic loss are a few implications of poor dental health,” wrote Dr. Michael Wilkes, chairman […]

  • American Dental Association on Toothpastes

    Online as of March 7, 2018 under Oral Health Topics: Toothpastes Key Points All toothpastes with the ADA Seal of Acceptance must contain fluoride. In addition to fluoride, toothpastes may contain active ingredients to help in ways such as lessening tooth sensitivity, whitening teeth, reducing gingivitis or tartar build-up, or preventing enamel erosion or bad […]

  • The effective use of fluorides in public health.

    Case study 2 Salt fluoridation in Jamaica Salt fluoridation was introduced into Jamaica (population, 2.5 million) in 1987; all salt for human consumption is fluoridated (30). Fluoride toothpastes had been available in the country since 1972, and while their use may have had a protective effect (32), the notable decline in the prevalence of dental […]

  • NIH: Fluoride Fact Sheet for Health Professionals

    This fact sheet was published by the Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It was updated April 26, 2022, and is online at https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Fluoride-HealthProfessional/ This is a fact sheet intended for health professionals. For a reader-friendly overview of Fluoride, see our consumer fact sheet on Fluoride. Introduction Fluoride, a […]

  • Fluoride & the Brain: An Interview with Dr. Phyllis Mullenix

    The following interview with Phyllis Mullenix took place on October 18, 1997.  The interviewer is Paul Connett. I. ACADEMIC BACKGROUND Connett: We’re talking with Dr. Phyllis Mullenix, who in 1995, published a very important work on the neurotoxic effects of fluoride in rat studies. And Phyllis would you begin by telling us your background? What are […]

  • Fluoride is safe in your toothpaste and drinking water, experts say – PolitiFact

    Note from Fluoride Action Network: We classified this article as misinformation as it is a one-sided look at this issue, taking the claims of fluoridation promoters at face value. This article presents no discussion of the neurotoxicity of fluoride at levels added to drinking water in fluoridation schemes (Green et al., 2019 and Till et […]