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  • Lithium-ion Battery Recycling: 10 Arguments Against the SungEel Proposal for Endicott NY

    Note: This series concerns a proposal to use incineration to recycle lithium-ion batteries. It was proposed for Endicott in Broome County NY. The proposal resulted in the formation of the group NoBurnBroome on April 15, 2020, to oppose the proposal, which it successfully accomplished in February 2021. The Fluoride Action Network was interested in this […]

  • Lithium-ion Battery Recycling: Timeline of No Burn Broome’s campaign

    Note: This series concerns a proposal to use incineration to recycle lithium-ion batteries. It was proposed for Endicott in Broome County NY. The proposal resulted in the formation of the group NoBurnBroome on April 15, 2020, to oppose the proposal, which it successfully accomplished in February 2021. The Fluoride Action Network was interested in this […]

  • Proposition 65: Legal and Technical Implications of Listing PFOA as a Carcinogen

    On March 19, 2021, California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) released a Notice of Intent (NOI) to list perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) as a carcinogen under Proposition 65 via the Authoritative Bodies mechanism.[i] PFOA belongs to a broad class of chemicals known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), which are fluorinated man-made chemicals. Proposition […]

  • Sensitive assessment of groundwater-associated, multi-exposure health hazards in a fluoride-enriched region of West Bengal, India

    Abstract Ninety groundwater samples were collected from Khayrasole and Rajnagar blocks of Birbhum district, West Bengal, India, during pre-monsoon and post-monsoon in 2016 to assess the hazards of fluoride in groundwater. Fluoride concentration fluctuated from 0.3 to 17.6 mg/L, with 70% of samples reported beyond the modified regional optimal fluoride level (0.7 mg/L) with a […]

  • Health risk assessment of nitrate and fluoride in bottled water: a case study of Iran

    Abstract Bottled water use has become widespread in recent years. Many Iranian cities are located in regions with a hot and semi-hot climate, and the quality of drinking water is low in most of these areas. Nitrate and fluoride are chemical constituents of drinking water with significant health concerns since they can be harmful in […]

  • NTP and NASEM: February 9, 2021, a date that won’t be forgotten.

    The NTP has a long and complex involvement with fluoride that began in the late 1970s. At that time the U.S. Congress requested that they perform a study to determine if fluoride was a carcinogen. The NTP contracted out two animal studies with the results published in 1990. The findings created an enormous stir as […]

  • NTP 1990 Cancer Study: EPA Marcus on the downgrading of cancers

    Fluoridegate: An American Tragedy In 2013 David Kennedy, DDS, produced Fluoridegate: An American Tragedy, a classic documentary that is exquisite in capturing the battle that raged over the downgrading of cancers in the fluoride study overseen by the National Toxicology Program and published in 1990. Below we reprint the comments made by William Marcus, the […]

  • Fluoride and nitrate contamination of groundwater in the Loess Plateau, China: Sources and related human health risks

    Highlights Fluoride and nitrate sources were identified by chemical and isotopic analysis. Water-rock interaction, evaporation and anthropogenic activities control F– contents. Major nitrate sources are soil N, chemical fertilizers, and manure and sewage. Absence of denitrification emphasizes the importance of controlling nitrate sources. Non-carcinogenic health risks of fluoride and nitrate increase with decreasing age. Abstract […]

  • Groundwater nitrate and fluoride profiles, sources and health risk assessment in the coal mining areas of Salt Range, Punjab Pakistan

      Abstract To assess the loading profiles of groundwater nitrate (NO3–) and fluoride (F–), their spatial distributions, geochemistry and associated health risks were determined for 131 groundwater samples from eastern (ESR), central (CSR) and Trans-Indus Salt Ranges (TSR) in Pakistan. Groundwater NO3– concentrations were 0.2–308 mg/L (mean 59 mg/L) in ESR, 2.7–203 mg/L (mean 73 mg/L) in CSR and […]

  • Fluoridation: an update on evidence.

    Note from Fluoride Action Network: Do not count on the information in this report until you read the critiques of it as this report contains serious misinformation. Because of its length, a critique by FAN will take time. (EC) *The original review is online at https://www.pmcsa.ac.nz/topics/fluoridation-an-update-on-evidence/ Office of the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor Kaitohutohu […]