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  • Sulfuryl Fluoride: FAN’s Submission to EPA. July 5, 2011.

    Fluoride Action Network 82 Judson Street, Canton NY Email: pesticides@www.fluoridealert.org http://www.fluoridealert.org/ July 5, 2011 To: U.S. EPA Office of Pesticides Programs Comments on Sulfuryl Fluoride; Proposed Order Granting Objections to Tolerances and Denying Request for a Stay. Federal Register, January 19, 2011 Docket ID: EPA-HQ-OPP-2005-0174; Document Number: 2011-917 FAN is responding to the EPA’s judgment […]

  • National Research Council of Canada (1977): Environmental Fluoride

    National Research Council of Canada NRC Associate Committee on Scientific Criteria for Environmental Quality Environmental Fluoride 1977 by Dyson Rose & John R. Marier National Research Council of Canada NRCC NO. 16081 ISSN 0316-0114 The Associate Committee on Scientific Criteria for Environmental Quality was established by the National Research Council of Canada in response to […]

  • Review of the EU SCHER report, June 21, 2011

    July 3, 2011 Good for Advocates but Bad for Science and a Terrible Model for Public Participation. On June 21, 201, SCHER (the European Union’s Scientific Committee on Health and Environmental Risks) published the final version of a report entitled, Critical review of any new evidence on the hazard profile, health effects, and human exposure to […]

  • FAN’s submissions to the EU SCHER committee, 2009.

    April 26, 2009 Via Email Sanco-Sc8-Secretariat@ec.europa.eu To: Scientific Committee on Health and Environmental Risks (SCHER) The European Commission Re: “Call for Information” – scientific papers, reports, etc., on fluoride and fluoridation chemicals published after 2004. Dear Committee Members, In response to your “Call for Information” we submit the following list of papers, reports, and relevant […]

  • Part 1. FAN’s list of fluoride studies (by subject) submitted to SCHER. April 2009.

    PART 1. List of fluoride studies by SUBJECT, published since 2004, and submitted to SCHER. The following is part 1 of the submission from the Fluoride Action Network to the European Commissions’ Scientific Committee on Health and Environmental Risks (SCHER) in response to their solicitation for a “Call for Information” for scientific papers, reports, etc., […]

  • Part 2. FAN’s list of fluoride studies (by author) submitted to SCHER. April 2009.

    PART 2. List of fluoride studies by AUTHOR, published since 2004, and submitted to SCHER. The following is part 2 of the submission from the Fluoride Action Network to the European Commissions’ Scientific Committee on Health and Environmental Risks (SCHER) in response to their solicitation for a “Call for Information” for scientific papers, reports, etc., […]

  • Canadian Assoc of Physicians for the Environment statement on fluoridation. 2008.

    The Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE) does not support fluoridation of drinking water for the following reasons. 1. The decline in caries in communities that are fluoridated has been highly significant — but so has the decline that has occurred in non-fluoridated communities. There has, in fact, been a general decline in […]

  • Sodium monofluorophosphate (MFP)

    Sodium monofluorophosphate (MFP)  On November 27, 2008, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) gave the green light to the use of Sodium Monofluorophosphate (and Calcium Fluoride) as a food supplement in Europe. According to the Alliance for Natural Health (UK): “Generally, when EFSA says a foodstuff is safe, it goes on free sale through all […]

  • The Timeline

    Douglass’ research on fluoride and osteosarcoma comprises two separate studies. The first study — a “retrospective study” — was initiated in 1992 and completed by 1995, while the second study — a “prospective study” — began soon thereafter. Douglass’ graduate student, Elise Bassin, conducted her analysis on Douglass’ first study. The following discussion focuses on […]

  • The Documents

     Documents that triggered NIH Investigation: 2006; EWG’s Complaint to NIEHS 2004: Douglass’s Submission to the National Research Council 2001: Bassin’s Doctoral Dissertation Additional Documents Obtained by FAN Under Freedom of Information Act (FOIA): 2004: Douglass’s Final Report to NIEHS 1997: Douglass’s Letter to NIEHS 1995: Douglass’s Progress Report to NIEHS 1994: Douglass’s Progress Report to […]