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  • Infant Fluoride Exposure

    Of all age groups, infants are the most vulnerable to fluoride toxicity. Due to their small size, infants receive up to 400% more fluoride (per pound of body weight) than adults consuming the same level of fluoride in water. Not only do infants receive a larger dose, they have an impaired ability to excrete fluoride through […]

  • 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. […]

  • Fluoride Chemicals Leach Lead into Water Supplies

    Fluoride chemicals, combined with other water additives, pull health-damaging lead from plumbing systems into drinking water, according to University of North Carolina researchers reported a North Carolina newspaper on May 18, 2005 (a). Fluoride is added to water supplies to prevent cavities, not purify it as some believe. A combination of chloramines and fluorosilicic acid, […]

  • Populations Vulnerable to Fluoride Toxicity

    One of the key problems with water fluoridation is that water is for everybody, but fluoride is not. Like virtually all other drugs, a given dose of fluoride can be safe for one person but harmful to another. Indeed, a vast body of fluoride research clearly demonstrates that certain subgroups in the population are particularly […]

  • Anti-fluoride fight: Portland’s Roger Burt on front lines for 34 years

    There are other things Roger Burt should be doing right now. So many other things. He’s newly retired, so he and his wife, Jeannie, could be traveling the world. Or unpacking the boxes in the front hall of their new Laurelhurst bungalow. Or he could be following through on his plan to volunteer at a […]

  • Preliminary Partial Dose Estimates from the Processing of Nuclear Materials at Three Plants during the 1940s and 1950s

    This report was produced by the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (www.ieer.org) under contract to USA Today, which supplied IEER with the plant documents as well as summaries of operating periods for the plants. The Authors: Arjun Makhijani [2], Bernd Franke [3] and Hisham Zerriffi [4]. © Copyright 2002 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett […]

  • Will fluoride make history in Sheridan again?

    SHERIDAN — People talked, petitions circulated and the newspaper became a battleground for letters to the editor. Those in favor of adding fluoride to the water supply felt it was a certain way to prevent tooth decay. Those against insisted that fluoride in the water would lead to cancer, stomach ulcers and more. The issue […]

  • Fluorosis Class Action Lawsuit

    Dear Supporter, Below is an important news release on recent developments in the fluorosis legal battle sent out by Dan Stockin, MPH of the Lillie Center in Georgia: NEWS RELEASE: For Immediate Release Fluorides Under Fire: Legal Community Awakens as Federal Fluoride Harm Case Proceeds to Oral Arguments and Fluoride Harm Newspaper Advertising Appears Legal […]

  • Back pain in chronic renal failure.

    Article w/o Photos (see pdf attached) Patient SK, a 40-yr-old female, resident of Bhagalpur village in Bihar, India, was operated for gallstones 3 years previously. On pre-operative checkup, mild renal dysfunction was detected. She was asymptomatic for renal disease with serum creatinine of 159 mmol/l (1.8mg/dl), bland urinary sediment and small echo-genic kidneys on ultrasound. She was put on conservative management for […]

  • Introducing the FAN Study Tracker

    Dear Supporter: The Fluoride Action Network is excited to announce the launch of the FAN Study Tracker, the most up-to-date and comprehensive source for fluoride health research, including studies investigating how fluoride affects the brain (e.g., IQ scores), the bones/joints (e.g., arthritis), the cardiovascular system, the kidneys, and the thyroid gland. Features of the Study-Tracker include: […]