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• Water, Water Everywhere — Is It Safe to Drink?

  I still remember my first exposure to the nutty idea. I was reading an anthology of humorist P.J. O’Rourke’s early work from his National Lampoon days. There is was, dripping with satire, a flow chart about how fluoridated water was turning America’s kids into communists. I laughed out loud. I’m sure I was not alone. The thought […]

• Fluoride & Human Health: An Interview with Dr. Kathleen Thiessen

  KATHLEEN M. THIESSEN is a senior scientist at SENES Oak Ridge, Inc., Center for Risk Analysis. From 2003 – 2006, Dr. Thiessen served as a panelist for the National Research Council’s (NRC) review Fluoride in Drinking Water: A Scientific Review of EPA’s Standards. She has extensive experience evaluating exposures, doses, and risks to human health from environmental […]

• Cryolite: FAN Comments submitted to EPA in May 2002

  Cryolite May 24, 2002, comments submitted to EPA on Gowan Company’s petition for new, modified, and proposed tolerances, (Federal Register, April 24, 2002). US EPA Docket control number OPP-2002-0007. Submitted by: Paul and Ellen Connett 82 Judson Street, Canton NY 13617 Tel: 315-379-9200. Fax: 315-379-0448. Email: wastenot@northnet.org Submitted via Email, Fri, 24 May 2002 22:08:04 […]

• One woman’s curiosity reopens water fluoridation debate in Phoenix

  WASHINGTON – When she was diagnosed with hypothyroidism in 2004, Phoenix resident Jody Clute had no idea it would lead her, and her city, to revisit one of the biggest public health debates of the 20th century – water fluoridation. After her diagnosis, Clute read “every book she could get her hands on” about the […]

• FAN Submissions & Reports

  The following are submissions written by members of FAN’s staff.  Nearly all of the submissions on Sulfuryl Fluoride were written in conjunction with Perry E. Wallace, Counsel for Objectors (FAN, Environmental Working Group and Beyond Pesticides). See also, FAN Press Releases Note: The TSCA law suit submissions are at http://fluoridealert.org/researchers/government-reports/the-tsca-law-suit-2017-2018/ DATE ABOUT TITLE 2022 June 3. […]

• Fluoride: The Hidden Poison in the National Organic Standards

  [Editors Note: This article raises serious health questions about the continued use of fluoride in food production, specifically organic farming systems, and in public water supplies. It leads to a larger discussion of allowable inert or secret product ingredients and permitted synthetic materials in organic agriculture under the national organic standards, adopted in December 2000. […]

• Drinking problem: The case against water fluoridation

  Here at MU, our water is fluoridated. Alarming as it should be, this fact is unsurprising when we consider that in the U.S., nearly 75 percent of Americans have access to fluoridated water supplies. Indeed, the acceptance of water fluoridation is rampant and apparently salubrious, supported by more than 100 national and international health groups […]

• Fluoridation is nothing to Celebrate

  Sixty-eight years ago while experimental trials were still underway, public water supplies were dosed with fluoride chemicals promising to safely reduce tooth decay, put dentists out of business and save millions of dollars on dental care. Current science tells us none of that came to pass; but fluoridation is still celebrated as if it did, […]

• Windsor. Jarvis: ‘Even with these doubts, you keep giving this stuff to people?’

  Why would a city pay to force its residents to ingest nocuous industrial waste for no reason? That’s what the reams of documents on fluoridating water, the conflicting claims and counter-claims threatening to bury city council, boil down to. I was horrified to find out where the fluoride added to our drinking water comes from: […]

• Fluoride Wars come to St. Croix Falls

  The Fluoride Wars have finally come to St. Croix Falls and nowhere have the opinions been more decisive, or the residents more steadfast. The council chambers was growing crowded as between 20-30 interested parties were there to voice their opinions on the city’s fluoridation of the water supply. Originally, the fluoride was introduced in 1945 […]