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  • Ski Wax Chemicals Can Build Up in Blood

    The extra speed provided by ski wax comes at a cost–perfluorochemicals BERKELEY, Calif. –A storm has dropped a big snow on Lake Tahoe resorts, and there’s a flurry of activity at the California Ski Company as hordes of skiers and snowboarders prepare to hit the slopes. In a cluttered workroom at the back of the […]

  • The National Toxicology Program

    See Updates here Overview: The National Toxicology Program (NTP), established in 1978, is the research arm of U.S. regulatory agencies and is best known for its Reports on Carcinogens. The NTP comes under the aegis of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), an agency that has been able to perform good science amidst […]

  • NTP 1990 Cancer Study: Osteosarcoma

    J. William Hirzy, PhD, a senior risk assessor at the U.S Environmental Protection Agency, gave a presentation that outlined the role of Congress and the background of this time period at the Second Citizens’ Conference on Fluoride in 2006. He noted, … In 1952 and again in 1957 Congress convened hearings on the rapidly developing […]

  • Assessment of groundwater quality and associated health risk in the arid environment, Western Saudi Arabia.

    Abstract Groundwater quality and associated health risk in the arid environment, Rabigh basin, Western Saudi Arabia, was assessed using an integrated approach namely groundwater suitability zone (GWSZ) maps, drinking water quality index (DWQI), irrigation water quality (IWQ) parameters, irrigation water quality index (IWQI), chronic daily index (CDI), and hazard quotient (HQ). Groundwater samples were collected […]

  • Land-use change caused by anthropogenic activities increase fluoride and arsenic pollution in groundwater and human health risk.

    Abstract Highlights Groundwater fluoride and arsenic under human lands were highly polluted. The distribution of high fluoride and arsenic in groundwater expanded. The exposure of fluoride and arsenic increased between two land-use periods. Anthropogenic activities could place human at a higher health risk. Policy-makers should take measures to reduce groundwater pollution. Groundwater pollution is becoming […]

  • Plasma and water fluoride levels and hyperuricemia among adolescents: A cross-sectional study of a nationally representative sample of the United States for 2013–2016.

    Highlights Relatively low levels of fluoride exposure in US adolescents but with wide ranges. Dose-dependent increase in prevalence of hyperuricemia with increasing fluoride levels. Significant associations between plasma and water fluoride and hyperuricemia. A positive relationship between water and plasma fluoride concentrations. Potential role of chronic fluoride exposure in increased prevalence of hyperuricemia. Abstract Exposure […]

  • The FDA Knew the Bottled Water Was Contaminated. The Public Didn’t.

    FDA inspectors have found some companies failed quality standards for bottled water, but the agency didn’t take significant action The government’s May 2018 report on Sweet Springs Valley Water Company, a bottled water manufacturer in West Virginia, was alarming. An inspector from the Food and Drug Administration, during a review of Sweet Springs’ test records, […]

  • OC water districts file massive lawsuit over PFAS contaminants

    11 agencies seek hundreds of millions of dollars from DuPont, 3M, others. Ricardo Medina, an Orange County Water District research associate, loads ion exchange resins into a treatment system to filter out PFAS toxins. The district is testing 14 different products to determine the best to remove the carcinogenic chemicals from dozens of Orange County […]

  • NTP 2015-2017: Genesis of involvement in fluoride’s neurotoxicity

    In 2015, the NTP solicited a request for information in the Federal Register on October 7 on fluoride’s Carcinogenicity, Developmental Neurotoxicity and Endocrine Disruption.  The Fluoride Action Network (FAN) submitted comments (see below) and the NTP made the decision to investigate fluoride’s neurotoxicity. On December 2, 2015, an Evaluation of Fluoride Exposure and Potential for […]

  • 7 Anti-Science Myths We All Need To Unlearn

    Fluoride Action Network will respond to this unfortunate article due to the misinformation in it. (EC) When people reject science in favor of whatever their preferred ideology is, they can come to absurd … [+] Getty Images Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but no one is entitled to their own facts. What’s amazing […]