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• Some Good News from Ireland

  Boxing day (Dec 26) has given us a fighting chance to reach our ambitious goal of $200,000 by Dec 31. We raised $19,400 yesterday with some specially large donations in the mail. We passed $115,000 which triggered a $5,000 challenge pledge and we reached 400 donors which added another $3000 from a second super angel. Our […]

• City Report Says Pasadena’s Drinking Water is Safe, Good for You

  Have you ever wondered why Pasadena’s tap water tastes different from your favorite bottled water at the store or from the ice cold cooler at the office? Chances are it could be the fluoride that the City adds to our drinking water. Although there is a medical consensus world-wide that adding the compound to water […]

• EPA silences experts speaking out against fluoride

  It’s the oldest trick in the book: Suppress information by silencing those who have something important to say. In this case, that something is about water fluoridation — and those who are trying to keep us from hearing the truth are with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Attempting to keep top scientists quiet isn’t easy, […]

• With audio plays and drumstick plants, a radio station is battling fluorosis in Haryana’s Mewat

  Fluoride levels in 493 villages are exceptionally high. A new show called ‘Fluorosis Se Jung’ aims to help residents protect themselves from its effects. In August, Palak Ramesh showed no hesitation when the teacher at her government school in Haryana’s Khedli Khurd village asked her to spell out her name. But the next moment, when […]

• Fluoride in fish flesh, fish bone and regular diet in south-coastal area of Karnataka state of India.

  Background: The objective of the study was to estimate the fluoride content in regular food items available, including fish, in a coastal area of the South Karnataka state of India. Materials and Methods: Fish and food samples were collected from a local market, i.e., Deralakatte, Mangalore of Karnataka State, India. Commonly consumed different species of […]

• A new campaign against fluoride

  A nationwide campaign has been launched to oppose the Health (Fluoridation of Drinking Water) Amendment Bill, currently before Parliament. Rethink Fluoride brings together those who oppose the fluoridation of drinking water, man of whom made submissions to the Health Select Committee considering the Bill. Retired dentists Dr Lawrie Brett and Dr John Jukes said that […]

• This new treatment could make your next trip to the dentist more bearable

  Note from FAN: Please remember that little is known about the potential toxicity or potential health effects from treatment with silver diammine fluoride. The comments on its safety are similar to what we hear from dentists about fluoride and fluoridation. A new method of treating tooth decay using silver nitrate may make the pain, and […]

• New US Government Study on Fluoride Damage to Brain

  Fluoride Free New Zealand is calling on the 23 councils (out of the total of 67) that still fluoridate, to urgently implement a moratorium on fluoridation to protect the brains of children being born today in their community. A major study published on Tuesday in the US Government’s Environmental Health Perspectives has found that children […]

• Simple Test For Fluoride Can Help Prevent Crippling Bone Disease

  A simple test to detect fluoride in drinking water quickly could prevent skeletal fluorosis, a crippling bone disease, according to a team of researchers from the Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technologies and the Water Innovation and Research Centre (WIRC) at the University of Bath, UK. The study is published in the journal Chemical Communications. Fluoride is […]

• NIH Supported Journal Publishes Landmark Study Linking Fluoride to Low IQ

  Increased levels of prenatal fluoride exposure have been linked to lower intelligence in children, according to the results of a new study. In the eye-opening new peer-reviewed study, published on September 19, 2017, in the Journal of Environmental Health Perspectives, researchers found strong evidence of a link between fluoride and lower cognitive function in children. […]