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  • Popular Infant Juices Contain Too Much Fluoride, Research Shows

    NEW YORK, Jan. 31, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Commonly-consumed infant fruit juices contain fluoride, some at levels higher than recommended for public water supplies which can damage teeth, according to research to be presented on March 17, 2011 at the International Association for Dental Research annual meeting in San Diego.(1) Ninety samples of three different flavors […]

  • Swallow fluoride at your own peril – Study shows risks without benefits

    Low-income children who consumed recommended fluoride doses have more fluoride-damaged teeth and high cavity rates, according to research published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, January 2011. Fluoride (hydrofluosilicic acid) is added to U.S. water supplies in a failed effort to reduce tooth decay. However, in Mexico fluoride is added to […]

  • PFBS: New stain repellent chemical doubling in blood every 6 years

    Glynn, A, U Berger, A Bignert, S Ullah, M Aune, S Lignell and PO Darnerud. 2012. Perfluorinated alkyl acids in blood serum from primiparous women in Sweden: Serial sampling during pregnancy and nursing, and temporal trends 1996-2010. Environmental Science and Technology http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/es301168c. As the phased-out stain repellent PFOS steadily decreases in people, its replacement is […]

  • Arsenic in Fluoride? CDC says YES

    Fluoridation chemicals are allowed to contain arsenic and other toxins New York — March 2007 — Trace amounts of arsenic are found in fluoride chemicals added to drinking water supplies, reports the U.S. Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) website. (1) Fluoridation is a controversial attempt to reduce tooth decay in tap-water consumers. Fluoridation chemicals – […]

  • New York State Department of Health underwrites fluoridation

    Note from Fluoride Action Network: This was originally posted on the NYS Dental Association’s website.  The actual offering is on the New York State Contract Reporter website.  One must sign up to get into it, but it’s free. I.  Overview The New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH), Division of Family Health (DFH), Bureau of […]

  • C8 Science Panel Quarterly Newsletter #1

    The C8 Science Panel was chosen to determine whether a probable link exists between C8 and any human disease as part of a class action settlement of a lawsuit involving releases of a chemical known as C8 from DuPont’s Washington Works in Wood County, West Virginia. Note: Subscribe to the C8 Science Panel Newsletter, delivered […]

  • Yorktown: State training program offers fluoridation tools and resources

    Yorktown, N.Y.—When Yorktown, N.Y., faced a fluoridation challenge last month, Dr. Carl Tegtmeier was prepared, thanks to fluoridation spokesperson training he received in June 2012. Dr. Tegtmeier was one of 19 dentists to participate in the New York State Oral Disease Prevention Program presented by the New York State Department of Health in Albany. Fluoridated […]

  • Fluoride: A Pain in the Neck – Case Report

    NEW YORK, Oct. 12 /PRNewswire/ — A 52-year-old American man’s arthritic- like joint pain and immobility went away after he stopped brushing his teeth with fluoridated toothpaste, according to a new study in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research. There’s no scientific dispute that large fluoride doses cause crippling skeletal fluorosis over time. But, […]

  • Tarnished Aluminum Plant (but a Shiny Future?)

    ZIAR NAD HRONOM, Slovakia — Rudolf Camaj doesn’t quite know whether to trust the stories that one day the aluminum plant here will be so clean there might be an outdoor swimming pool for the workers. “It is almost unbelievable to us that the old factory will be replaced by a new factory that won’t […]

  • Fluoride foes wield new clout via Internet

    The small Western Massachusetts towns of South Hadley, Granby, and Ludlow have been like peas in a pod for as long as anyone there can remember. So it was a surprise to South Hadley officials when the other two towns rejected a push earlier this year to add tooth decay-fighting fluoride to their shared water […]