> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.foodconsumer.org/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # FAN Bulletin 2031: Fluoride book due out Oct 4 & Updates - URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/fluoride_book_2509100645/ - Published: 2010-09-25T19:41:00.000Z - Updated: 2026-09-15T13:00:23.000Z - Description: A Fluoride Action Network bulletin announcing the October 4 release of "The Case Against Fluoride" by Connett, Beck and Micklem, and recounting a UK speaking tour that included a Southampton fluoridation meeting drawing about 150 people. - Author: Food Consumer - Tags: Books, Shopping, Fluoride, #vivvo-import **Fluoride Action Network** [**http://fluoridealert.org/**](http://fluoridealert.org/?ref=foodconsumer.org) **FAN Bulletin 2031: Fluoride book due out Oct 4 & Updates** September 25, 2010 Dear Friend, The new book, "The Case Against Fluoride: How Hazardous Waste Ended Up in Our Drinking Water and the Bad Science and Powerful Politics That keep it There" by Connett, Beck and Micklem, (Chelsea Green publishers) should be at [Amazon.com](http://+http//www.amazon.com/Case-Against-Fluoride-Hazardous-Drinking/dp/1603582878/ref=sr%5F1%5F1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1285447231&sr=1-1&ref=foodconsumer.org)by October 4\. You can place advanced orders there or with the publisher's website[Chelseagreen.com](http://www.chelseagreen.com/bookstore/item/the%5Fcase%5Fagainst%5Ffluoride:paperback?ref=foodconsumer.org) . For a review of the book by Professor Vyvyan Howard go to [http://www.fluorideresearch.org/433/files/FJ2010\_v43\_n3\_p170-173.pdf](http://www.fluorideresearch.org/433/files/FJ2010%5Fv43%5Fn3%5Fp170-173.pdf?ref=foodconsumer.org) This review appears in the latest issue of the journal *Fluoride*. The whole issue can be accessed for free online at [http://www.fluorideresearch.org/433/files/FJ2010\_v43\_n3\_p00i.pdf](http://www.fluorideresearch.org/433/files/FJ2010%5Fv43%5Fn3%5Fp00i.pdf?ref=foodconsumer.org) Ellen and I have just returned from a working trip to Europe. I gave waste talks in Merthyr Tydfell, Wales; Plymouth, Devon; York, Yorkshire; and Derby. We also had a splendid meeting on fluoridation in Southampton (which is the eye of the storm as far as future of fluoridation in the UK is concerned - see news reports at[http://www2.fluoridealert.org/Alert/United-Kingdom/England](http://www2.fluoridealert.org/Alert/United-Kingdom/England?ref=foodconsumer.org) ). The [Southampton meeting](http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/district/southampton/8389511.Fluoridation%5Fis%5F%5Fpolitics%5Fnot%5Fscience%5F/?ref=rss) was held at Solent University and was organized by Stephen Peckham of the group Hampshire Against Fluoridation. The attendance on a busy Saturday afternoon was very good, attracting about 150 people. At the meeting I went through the arguments we present in our book, focusing particularly on three areas: 1) It is a bad medical practice, 2) It is Ineffective, and 3) There are many potential health risks for which there is a totally inadequate margin of safety. The Southampton organizers have arranged for a local bookstore (**October Books**) to stock the book and have a window display for it. At this meeting were some of the key organizers from Southampton and the UK. These included Bill Edwards and his wife, who runs an [excellent website](http://ukagainstfluoride.blogspot.com/?ref=foodconsumer.org) on the issue, and their son who videotaped the presentation (available on this site). Also present was John Spottiswoode, the Green party candidate who ran on an anti-fluoridation platform at the last election. John Graham, of the National Pure Water Association, came down from London accompanied by Dr. Jennifer Luke, the British researcher who found that fluoride accumulated in the human pineal gland (Luke, 2001) and that it also lowered melatonin production in animals (see Luke's 1997 thesis, T**he Effect of Fluoride on the ?Physiology of the Pineal Gland** at[http://fluoridealert.org/luke-1997.pdf](http://fluoridealert.org/luke-1997.pdf?ref=foodconsumer.org) \- it takes a minute to download). Luke's work has been steadfastly and outrageously ignored by those countries that continue to promote fluoridation. A pleasant moment came in the meeting when I was able to present FAN's 2009 *Albert Burgstahler Award for Scientific Integrity* to Dr. Luke in recognition of her courage in researching and publishing these studies. I do not say courage lightly because both she and her husband are dentists. They knew that publishing this work would not make them popular among their colleagues in the dental community. However, there will come a day when they too will honor her work. Hopefully, that day will not be too far off. On Sept 16, Ellen and I travelled to Brussels, Belgium to testify before the European Commissions Scientific Committee on Health and Environmental Risks (SCHER) on their preliminary report on water fluoridation. I will report on that meeting in the next bulletin, "High Noon in Brussels." \* \* \* \* \* \* \* \* \* \* The CDC released the 2008 water fluoridation-by-state statistics - see[http://www.cdc.gov/fluoridation/statistics/2008stats.htm](http://www.cdc.gov/fluoridation/statistics/2008stats.htm?ref=foodconsumer.org) The California Dental Association responded with a [press release](http://www2.fluoridealert.org/Alert/United-States/California/California-has-the-largest-number-of-residents-in-the-U.S.-receiving-fluoridated-water?ref=foodconsumer.org) stating: "**California now has the largest total number of residents of any state receiving fluoridated water… 58 percent of Californians (21.5 million) receive fluoridated water, up from 27 percent in 2002…"** Meanwhile, more and more communities around the world are attempting to fight off new fluoridation proposals. Two recent articles give a flavor of the fightback. **From Mount Gambier, South Australia - see** [http://www2.fluoridealert.org/Alert/Australia/Mount-Gambier-Water-inquiry-pledge](http://www2.fluoridealert.org/Alert/Australia/Mount-Gambier-Water-inquiry-pledge?ref=foodconsumer.org) **From Watsonville, Calfornia:** [Speak Out Now or Happily Accept Fluoridated Water](http://www2.fluoridealert.org/Alert/United-States/California/Watsonville-Speak-out-now-or-happily-accept-fluoridated-water?ref=foodconsumer.org)\- by Nick Bulaich. Paul Connett ###