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  • Fort St. John: Fluoride debate takes center stage

    On the evening of Nov. 2, the Lido Theatre hosted a water fluoridation information session, where Dr. Arthur Conn, the Assistant Chief Dental Officer for Health Canada spoke in favour of the fluoridating process and arguing against was Dr. James Beck, from the University of Calgary. Dr. Conn states that after extensive scientific reviews by […]

  • PA Fluoride NOW Debuts Interactive Map for Residents to Learn if Their Water Has the Best Fluoride Level to Protect Teeth

    HARRISBURG, Pa., Sept 04, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ — PA Fluoride NOW, a coalition of approximately 250 individuals, organizations, and community foundations dedicated to improving oral health in Pennsylvania, has added an interactive map to its website. The website will let residents find out if the water they drink contains the optimal level of fluoride […]

  • Fairbanks: Report of the Fluoride Task Force

    EXCERPTS: In response to concerns expressed by community members, on February 8, 2010, the Fairbanks City Council passed a resolution (Appendix A) establishing a committee charged with the responsibility to examine evidence related to fluoridation of public water supplies and to provide the City Council with a report containing analysis and recommendations. The committee was […]

  • Fairbanks. Letter: No to fluoride

    To the editor: Pro-fluoridation lobbyists say “… there are no adverse health effects associated with fluoridated water.” This is simply false. The fluoridation orthodoxy tolerates no doubt, dismissing opposition as quackery after cursory review, holding faith in “expert opinion” of public health bureaucrats. Nobel laureate Arvid Carlsson is as qualified as any, but is strongly […]

  • Fraser Coast: Fluoride takes bite of budget

    IN THE next decade residents who don’t live within the Hervey Bay or Maryborough treatment plant water feeds may find their teeth falling out. No fluoride water will be coming out of their taps any time soon. “But everyone else on the Fraser Coast will be getting their dose of fluoride from December 31 unless […]

  • NYS Attorney General supports revocation of food tolerances for sulfuryl fluoride

    On August 4, the Office of NYS Attorney General, Eliot Spitzer, submitted comments to the US Environmental Protection Agency in support of the revocation of the use of Dow AgroSciences food fumigant sulfuryl fluoride (ProFume®). Three groups (Fluoride Action Network, Environmental Working Group, Beyond Pesticides) petitioned EPA in June 2006 to revoke all food tolerances […]

  • Health Ministry: Fluoride levels in Israeli drinking water are insufficient

    The level of fluoride added to drinking water in Israel is inadequate, according to a Health Ministry report released on Monday. n 67 percent of tests performed by the ministry’s Department for Environmental Health, water fluoridation levels were insufficient to prevent tooth decay. However, excessively high levels of fluoride were found in drinking water in […]

  • Video and Powerpoint: The Scientific Evidence for Fluoride’s Developmental Neurotoxicity.

    Update: Chris Neurath is the lead author of Fluoride Developmental Neurotoxicity: Dose-Response Analyses of Recent High Quality Studies, an e-poster in the 32nd Annual Conference of ISEE (International Society of Environmental Epidemiology), August 24-27, 2020. FAN’s Research Director, Chris Neurath, closely details the evidence that fluoride is a developmental neurotoxin. This information in this video […]

  • Scientist Who Defied Intimidation From Harvard Colleagues Wins Award For Work and Integrity.

      The International Society for Children’s Health and the Environment (ISCHE) has awarded Philippe Grandjean, MD, DMSc, the Herbert Needleman Award in Children’s Environmental Health “for his work on methyl mercury, lead, PFAS and other toxic chemicals.” One of the chemicals Dr. Grandjean has been studying for decades is fluoride, including the impact of low-levels […]

  • NRC Delivers Wake Up Call on Fluoride

    A National Research Council (NRC) report on fluoride toxicity released today gives powerful evidence that many Americans are being over-dosed with harmful levels of fluoride. A wide range of health problems are cited in the report, with bones and teeth being the foremost, but not sole, targets of concern. The current “maximum contaminant level” for […]