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  • Fluorides in the water do more harm than good

    This summer, newspapers in northern Ohio have often reported microcystin contamination in our precious Lake Erie. Microcystin, released by blue-green algae, is a liver toxin. Our water is being monitored. If the microcystin concentrations reach only 0.3 ppb (parts per billion) in our tap water, “Do not drink” warnings will be issued for “pregnant women, […]

  • Scientific Review Shows Fluoridation May Not Prevent Cavities

    After decades of toxic fluoride being added to public water supplies without the public’s consent, we now have significant validation that this practice needs to be stopped. The Cochrane Collaboration has released a comprehensive review with points that are nearly impossible to dispute. Fluoride doesn’t work to prevent cavities and it’s proven to cause harm […]

  • Food Policy Council urges Asheville to stop fluoridating water

    Back in June, the Asheville-Buncombe Food Policy Council sent a letter to Mayor Esther Manheimer and City Council “requesting the city to end the artificial fluoridation of our water supply.” Brevard, Franklin, Black Mountain and Woodfin have all cut fluoride from their water systems over the years, and the grassroots group, whose mission is to […]

  • The toxicity of Sulfoxaflor

    Excerpts from: Registration Decision for the New Active Ingredient Sulfoxaflor Federal Register, Final Rule May 17, 2013 • A fluoridated pesticide made by Dow AgroSciences, CAS No. 946578-00-3 • Approved in May 2013, revoked September 10, 2015, by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals The database of guideline toxicity studies indicates that the nervous system […]

  • References: Water Fluoridation and Environmental Justice

    Water Fluoridation and Environmental Justice Report by Fluoride Action Network Submitted, September 25, 2015 To: Environmental Justice Interagency Working Committee As the the pdf online document for this report was user unfriendly, the following are the live links for the references. ____________________________________________________ Ainsworth NJ. 1933. Mottled teeth. Brit. Dent. J., 55: 233-25- and 274-276. Albert […]

  • New report reveals Feds never protected communities of color from water fluoridation: FAN calls for better alternative.

    Fluoride Action Network (FAN) has delivered a 100-page report to the Environmental Justice Interagency Working Group entitled “Water Fluoridation and Environmental Justice” outlining the dangers posed by this practice to poor families and communities of color. Since 1962 officials at the U.S. Public Health Service have known that Blacks are disproportionately harmed by fluoride with […]

  • Report reveals Feds didn’t protect communities of color from fluoridation: FAN calls for 5-step alternative

    The Fluoride Action Network (FAN) has delivered a 100-page report to the Environmental Justice Interagency Working Group entitled “Water Fluoridation and Environmental Justice” outlining the dangers posed by this practice to poor families and communities of color. Since 1962 officials at the U.S. Public Health Service have known that Blacks are disproportionately harmed by fluoride with […]

  • DentaQuest Foundation funds Toolkit in effort to defeat those opposed to fluoridation

    Note from Fluoride Action Network: The following is on the Fluoridation Toolkit website [click on The opposition: who they are and what they say]. The Community Toolkit is a recently released series of strategies and propaganda tactics to enable federal and state medical professionals to fight for fluoridation and to discredit those opposed. It was […]

  • Port Angeles City Council to choose fluoridation forum questions during Tuesday meeting

    PORT ANGELES — A process leading to a Nov. 6 advisory survey on fluoridation begins in earnest this week. City Council members will select six questions from among 20 that will form the basis of a 6 p.m. Oct. 22 forum when they meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday at City Hall, 321 E. Fifth St. […]

  • More than 2 million Arkansans drinking fluoridated water

    Seventy-six percent of Arkansans now are served by public water systems that fluoridate water at recommended levels as a result of a 2011 law, legislators were told today. Dr. Nate Smith, director of the Arkansas Department of Health, told the House and Senate Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committees that Act 197 of 2011 has […]