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Category: Fluoride

  • Is this the year Fluoride ends?

    Is this the year Fluoride ends?

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    By Donna Westfall – January 3, 2021 In 2012, Crescent City voters passed a moratorium to turn off harmful fluoride that had been added to the water for 44 years. The first try at the ballot box failed two years earlier. What made the difference between 2010 and 2012? Local doctors and new parents were…

  • Op-ed: It is time to protect kids’ developing brains from fluoride

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    Submitted by Liesa Cianchino – November 30, 2020 Mounting evidence suggests fluoride may be hampering brain development and reducing kids’ IQ. The US needs to rethink this exposure for pregnant women and children. The debate on the fluoridation of drinking water—one of the most polarized, long-running, and high-decibel controversies in public health—has been reignited as…

  • 200 Million Americans Ingesting Fluoride on Public Water Systems

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    Fluoride Action Network – May 14, 2020 – New York Neurotoxicity Experts Cleared to Testify At Fluoridation Chemicals Trial June 8 in Federal Court The judge in a June 8 federal court trial in San Francisco has cleared the way for three international experts in neurotoxicity to testify on the risks of fluoride in public water supplies, the Fluoride Action…

  • Canadian Broadcasting Corporation bias taints debate over fluoridation

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    Opinion Piece reprinted with permission from David Green, Rocky Ridge Drinking Water originally published in Peterborough Examiner– August 27, 2019 – Since Aug. 19, the news media in the U.S. and abroad has been abuzz with coverage of the release of research in JAMA Pediatrics suggesting Canadian boys born to mothers with common levels of…

  • Fluoride may diminish kidney and liver function in adolescents, study suggests

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    THE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL / MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Exerpts: (New York, NY – August 8, 2019) — Fluoride exposure may lead to a reduction in kidney and liver function among adolescents, according to a study published by Mount Sinai researchers in ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL IN AUGUST. WHILE FLUORIDE EXPOSURE IN ANIMALS AND ADULTS HAS BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH…

  • Landmark legal action to halt fluoridation nationwide is progressing well

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    July 20, 2019 – Fluoride Action Network (FAN) has brought legal action against the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the federal Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). The goal is to force EPA to set limits of fluoride in drinking water at levels indicated by the newest scientific evidence, thereby halting fluoridation. Michael Connett attorney…

  • WATER FLUORIDATION UPDATE July 2019

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    Clean Water Oregon – July 20, 2019 State fails to meet goal for mandated water fluoridation Dr. Bruce Austin, Oregon dental officer (our ‘fluoridation czar’), set a goal of achieving 80% of the state being fluoridated by 2019. His progress? None. Thankfully, Oregon remains a leader in providing clean drinking water, having one of the…

  • Does the Dept. of Health & Human (DHHS) Services Really Protect the Health of All Americans?

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    Public Letter to David Benor at the DHSS from Jill Jennings-McElheney – June 14, 2019 – Subject:  Weight of Evidence and Cause of Action In Fall of 2014 at my request, HHS employees met with me, and a panel I assembled of seasoned experts in their respective academic and professional fields.  The subject was detrimental…

  • Award-Winning Toxicologist Calls For End to Fluoridation

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    By Stuart Cooper, Fluoride Action Network – May 7, 2019 – An award-winning toxicologist and a Diplomat of the American Board of Toxicology, Steve Gilbert, PhD–and his non-profit organization, the Institute of Neurotoxicology & Neurological Disorders–have produced a must-read statement opposing artificial fluoridation on his website Toxipedia. Dr. Gilbert is an Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington’s…

  • Toxicologist Opposes Fluoridation

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    Submitted by Rick North – May 6, 2019 – Toxicologist Steve Gilbert, PhD, and his non-profit organization, the Institute of Neurotoxicology & Neurological Disorders, have produced a statement opposing fluoridation. It’s at his “Connecting the Dots” website at https://www.asmalldoseoftoxicology.org/library. Steve is the founder and director of the Institute of Neurotoxicology and Neurological Disorders (INND) and…