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• FAN in the News: 2002 – 2010

  The following are archival news reports that have cited the Fluoride Action Network. Click here for news articles from 2011-present. 2010: Connett Raising Fluoride Awareness – Daily Courier Observer (New York) – December 18, 2010 The professor emeritus of chemistry at St. Lawrence University recently published a book, “The Case against Fluoride,” and has spent […]

• By Industrial Sector: Hydrogen Fluoride Releases,1995-2016

  Before we list the Toxic Release Inventory’s information on the releases of Hydrogen fluoride (also called Hydrofluoric acid) by industrial sector, we want to share some information on this highly toxic inorganic acid. In 1993, EPA released the Hydrogen Fluoride Study, Report to Congress which stated, Exposure to HF can cause injury through inhalation, direct […]

• The Lawyer Who Became DuPont’s Worst Nightmare

  Rob Bilott was a corporate defense attorney for eight years. Then hetook on an environmental suit that would upend his entire career —and expose a brazen, decades-long history of chemical pollution. Just months before Rob Bilott made partner at Taft Stettinius & Hollister, he received a call on his direct line from a cattle farmer. […]

• From fluoride to lead, how to know what’s in your family’s water

  You don’t have to live in Flint, Michigan, to worry about your family’s water supply. Concern about Flint’s continuing battle with lead contamination has people across the country paying closer attention to what is flowing out of their taps. In Maine, residents in seven towns voted Nov. 8 to remove fluoride from the water supply, […]

• Kidney disease shatters Lambadas’ lives in Krishna

  Spurt in incidence in hamlets sets alarm bells ringing In mid-July, Barothu Chandru became the 14th person surviving with one kidney in Mansingh, a Lambada hamlet in A. Konduru mandal of Krishna district, where four villagers have died due to renal failure in the last three years. At least 14 others are afflicted by the […]

• Toxic substance in eggs triggers public health warning

  Note from FAN: See more on Fipronil here; its molecular structure is: Dutch food and consumer product safety authority NVWA issued a warning to consumers not to eat eggs with the company code X-NL-40155XX. The content of toxic fipronil in these eggs is so high that they pose an acute danger to public health, the […]

• Testing water quality – How do neighboring cities compare?

  CENTRAL TEXAS – After Sonterra MUD, a development in Jarrell, was alerted about higher-than-safe levels of fluoride in their water supply, KVUE wanted to see if their situation was isolated or mimicked in nearby communities. Sonterra’s high fluoride level stems from naturally occurring fluoride sources in their groundwater. The MUD has to then dilute to […]

• Dentist warns: Neurotoxic fluoride toothpaste is unethically marketed to children

  Dental amalgam is made up of 50 percent mercury – a toxic heavy metal linked scientifically to neurological problems, kidney problems and infertility. In 1991, the World Health Organization reported that mercury fillings are the predominant cause of mercury exposure. So, the question remains: is YOUR dentist telling you the whole truth about your health? […]

• Fluoride Debate (May 15) and Vote (May 16) for Sudbury Water District

  There will be a vote on the issue of fluoridation at the annual Water District meeting on May 16, 2017 at 7 p.m. at the Sudbury Senior Center. You must be a customer of SWD to vote. On May 15, 2017 at 7 p.m., at the Community Room of Goodnow Public Library, there will be […]

• Science and Alternative Facts: About fluoridation, false dilemmas and fake news

  Undeterred by mounting evidence proving the dangers of fluoride, power, prestige, and paychecks continue to motivate fluoridationists. Despite the fact that the prestigious international 2015 Cochrane panel, like the 2000 York panel, found the fluoridation literature to be of abysmally poor quality, at high risk of bias, and with no evidence of safety… Despite the […]