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  • How seriously should we take the fluoride controversy?

    For years, anyone who questioned the safety of adding fluoride to the public water supply was seen as fringe and anti-science. But recently, water fluoridation has come under closer scrutiny from science, and about 97 percent of tap water in Europe is now fluoride free. Is it time the US took similar steps? Topical fluoride, in […]

  • Fluoride under attack in some towns, while Shelburne Community School has lowest prevalence of tooth decay

    In 1999, the Hinesburg Selectboard unanimously approved the installation of a sodium fluoride saturator to the town’s water system. Fluoride, when added to drinking water, has the beneficial effect of preventing tooth decay. Despite broad scientific support of the safety and effectiveness of properly fluoridated drinking water, anti-fluoridation activists have some Hinesburg residents afraid to […]

  • Public Health Service Recommendation for Fluoride Concentration in Drinking Water for Prevention of Dental Caries

    Note from FAN: The Department of Health & Human Services released this same information on April 27, 2015, in Public Health Reports as noted in their press release. Summary Through this final recommendation, the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) updates and replaces its 1962 Drinking Water Standards related to community water fluoridation—the controlled addition of […]

  • With Science against them, CDC Promotes Fluoridation with PR, Says FAN

    Science continues to report the potential for significant adverse effects from the obsolete practice of water fluoridation, reports the Fluoride Action Network (FAN). In June a major review reported that the majority of studies that underpin the rationale for community water fluoridation have been of poor quality. Yet the Centers for Disease Control and Organized […]

  • Fluoride under attack in Hinesburg

    In 1999, the Hinesburg Selectboard unanimously approved the installation of a sodium fluoride saturator to the town’s water system. Fluoride, when added to drinking water, has the beneficial effect of preventing tooth decay. Despite broad scientific support of the safety and effectiveness of properly fluoridated drinking water, anti-fluoridation activists have some Hinesburg residents afraid to […]

  • Making Sense of Medicine: The great fluoride debate

    One might paraphrase Hamlet and say, “To fluoridate or not to fluoridate, that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of chemical poisons, or to take arms against a sea of bad science, and, by opposing, end them?” Fluoride pollution is one of the most misunderstood controversies […]

  • Parry Sound council should learn more about fluoridation; Limeback

    Re: Town opts to stick with fluoride (Beacon Star, June 5), here are some basic facts that may not have been considered. 1. The chemicals used to fluoridate drinking water are impure. They are industrial waste liquids (usually hydrofluosillicic acid) collected from the smokestack scrubbers of the phosphate fertilizer industry and they are contaminated with […]

  • PFAES: Novel fluorinated contaminants identified in China

    A Chinese study has identified novel fluorinated chemicals in sewage sludge. The chemicals are thought to be impurities in mist suppressants permitted for use by China’s metal-plating industry. Mist suppressants are used to protect workers from exposure to chromium VI spray during the electrolysis process. A lack of cost-effective alternatives means that PFOS and its […]

  • A Bad Year for Fluoridation Gets Worse

    Cochrane Review provides little convincing evidence of fluoridation benefits This Cochrane review is the third major scientific blow against fluoridation in 2015 and we are only half way through the year. See a summary of it below in a statement released yesterday to the press in New Zealand by Dr. Stan Litras, director of FIND […]

  • Medical Malpractice and Water Fluoridation in the Republic of Ireland

    The Irish Health Research Board (HRB) in their recent review say that they found no definite evidence that community water fluoridation has negative health effects. Yet remarkably, and extraordinarly, the review did not in any way assess the exposure of the Irish population to fluoride; including the contribution of water fluoridation, food or beverage consumption, […]