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• Study deals blow to fluoridation

  Last month, Environmental Health Perspectives published an article titled “Prenatal Fluoride Exposure and Cognitive Outcomes in Children at 4 and 6-12 Years in Mexico.” The article is notable not only for its substance but also for the fact that the publication it appeared in has support from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. NIEHS […]

• Fluoride Can Harm Children’s Intelligence, Mexican Study Finds

  A groundbreaking new study found that exposure to fluoride during pregnancy can harm IQ and cognitive development in children. Fluoride is added to the tap water of two-thirds of Americans. The study – a joint effort by researchers in the U.S., Mexico and Canada – examined 299 pairs of Mexican mothers and children. It found that […]

• Chapel Hill: OWASA Will Soon Reintroduce Fluoride Into Its Water Supply. Critics Say the Authority Is Unethicall

  Curtis Williams slowly steps up close to the microphone. Standing in front of the board of commissioners for Orange County’s water authority, he’s holding a faded red dictionary and a poster board on which he’s drawn the cell structure of fluorine. Any dictionary, he says, will tell you what you need to know about the […]

• Disagreement over fluoride IQ study

  A recently published US study finding that women who drink fluoridated water have lower IQ babies is being panned by a Bay of Plenty Medical Officer of Health Dr Neil de Wet, while being promoted by fluoride opponents. Fluoride Free New Zealand says the results mean the 23 New Zealand councils that still fluoridate drinking […]

• Peel council revisits fluoride debate after resident revives lawsuit

  Liesa Cianchino wants legal opinion on whether fluoride in tap water violates Charter A Mississauga  woman says she’s re-opening a dormant lawsuit she launched against Peel Region over the fluoride it adds to tap water to prevent tooth decay. Liesa Cianchino sued the region three years ago, alleging that by fluoridating drinking water, the region […]

• Fluoridation Review #33

  Neurotoxicity Report a Great Success For FAN in 2023 The recognition by the National Toxicology Program that fluoride is neurotoxic to the developing brains of children, the outcome of a process that began long ago with Mullenix, et al’s 1994 report on the neurotoxicity of sodium fluoride in rats, and continued with the 2006 National […]

• Streptococcus mutans and their adhesive function linked to children with rampant caries and increased risk of dental caries.

  Researchers at Umeå University in Sweden have made a novel discovery connecting highly variant types of the caries bacterium Streptococcus mutans and their adhesive function to children with rampant caries and increased risk of dental caries. The results, which can lead to a better way of identifying high-risk patients and treat their caries, are published […]

• Association Reported Between Fluoride and Reduced IQ

  A mother’s exposure to fluoride during pregnancy could lower the intelligence of her children, researchers say. Following a group of Mexican children from the time of their mother’s pregnancy to early adolescence, an international team of researchers found an association between high fluoride levels in the mothers’ urine and reduced scores on the children’s cognitive […]