The Fluoride Action Network accuses the Pew Charitable Trusts of lobbying communities into fluoridation, and reports two more British Columbia towns ending it. Williams Lake voted 2,453 to 970 to stop, a move it says saves taxpayers $94,000 a year.
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Politics
Fluoride Action Update
Amesbury, Massachusetts voters ended 44 years of fluoridation on November 8th, with 55 percent rejecting the Board of Health's recommendation. Business owners are campaigning too: Austin's Hopdoddy Burgers filters fluoride from its water, and Martinelli's uses well water in its juice.
Chemical
Lead Poisoning Alert: This Widely Used Drink is Dangerous
Mercola argues declassified Manhattan Project files show fluoridation was promoted to shield the bomb and aluminum industries from liability, and that the hydrofluorosilicic acid now used carries arsenic, lead, cadmium and mercury and raises blood lead.
Chemical
Great Review of "The Case Against Fluoride"
Paul Connett, James Beck and H.S. Micklem's book, backed by 80 pages of citations, won a 2011 National Health Information Award. FAN points readers to Louisa Enright's three-part review, published on her blog and in Maine's Herald Gazette.
Politics
Fluoride-free Handouts for Halloween
A campaign page offering free printable handouts to give out with Halloween treats, arguing fluoridation is mass medication without informed consent, controlled dose or FDA approval, and urging readers to distribute them at schools, markets and workplaces.
Politics
CDC Reveals Fluoridation Fails Alaskans but Touts Fluoridation Anyway (PR)
The Fluoride Action Network points to a CDC report finding 91% of rural Alaska Native adolescents have cavities whether or not their water is fluoridated. FAN notes the CDC blames poor diet and lack of dental care yet still recommends more fluoridation.
Legal Actions
Water Fluoridation Injury Lawsuit Filed in Federal Court
A 13-year-old with dental fluorosis is suing Nestle U.S.A., Nestle Waters North America and Gerber, claiming fluoridated bottled water discolored her teeth and the companies failed to warn buyers. Her mother seeks the cost of covering up the damage, put at over $100,000 over a lifetime.
Chemical
National Hispanic Civil Rights Organization Opposes Fluoridation
The League of United Latin American Citizens, the largest and oldest Hispanic civil rights group in the US, adopted a resolution opposing water fluoridation at its July 2011 convention, demanding to know why health agencies are more protective of the policy than of public health.
Chemical
The Daily Activity Every Middle Aged Woman Should Beware of
The Fluoride Action Network, writing for Mercola, cites a 2006 National Research Council report calling fluoride an endocrine disruptor affecting thyroid, parathyroid, pineal, adrenal, pancreas and pituitary. European doctors once prescribed 2 to 3 mg to damp overactive thyroids.
Chemical
Why You Need to Avoid These 'Healthy' Fruits and Nuts
The Fluoride Action Network traces Dow's fumigant ProFume, 99.8 percent sulfuryl fluoride, from its 1959 registration against termites to EPA approval for food use in 2004. Dow sought to fumigate California raisins and walnuts as methyl bromide was phased out under the Montreal Protocol.
Nutrition
The Crippling Toxin You Knowingly Consume Every Day...
The Fluoride Action Network argues skeletal fluorosis runs along a continuum, with early joint pain and stiffness easily mistaken for arthritis. It faults the EPA for studying only the crippling stage and ignoring how widely milder stages may occur.
Chemical
Fluoride Awareness Week – Enough is Enough - Fluoride Must Be Removed from all US Drinking Water Supplies
The New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation backs Fluoride Awareness Week, arguing that fluoride does not reduce tooth decay, wastes tax money and harms health. It cites claims that over 40% of American 12-15 year olds show visible signs of overexposure.
Chemical
Water fluoridation linked to osteosarcoma (PR)
The Fluoride Action Network argues that Chester Douglass's Journal of Dental Research paper cannot refute Bassin's 2006 finding of a 500% to 600% higher osteosarcoma risk in boys exposed at ages 6 to 8, because bone fluoride levels say nothing about timing.
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FDA: Fluoride Supplements Never Found Safe or Effective
A fluoridation opposition group notes that National Library of Medicine drug information now warns sodium fluoride 'has not been found by FDA to be safe and effective,' and cites reviews tying supplements to higher dental fluorosis risk with no benefit to primary teeth.
Chemical
These Documents Virtually Force You to Destroy Your Health
Documents released under the Freedom of Information Act show dental staff in the CDC’s Oral Health Division have controlled the agency’s water fluoridation position since the 1970s, with no input from CDC toxicologists, minority health professionals or diabetes experts.
Politics
Congressman Ron Paul on Fluoridation, and More Victories! (PR)
In an interview with Fluoride Action Network campaign director Stuart Cooper, the Republican presidential candidate said the federal government should have “zero” role in promoting fluoridation, calling it a local issue he would work to keep Washington out of.
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EPA sacrifices science to protect fluoridation (PR)
With 41% of US children aged 12 to 15 showing dental fluorosis, HHS proposed lowering the fluoridation level to 0.7 ppm while EPA released documents underpinning a new drinking-water goal. The writer argues EPA abandoned the science behind its safe reference dose.
Environment
Fluoride Action Network Newsletter: Action Update
Andrew Young and Dr. Gerald Durley asked Georgia legislators to repeal the state's 40-year-old mandatory water fluoridation law, citing fairness, safety and disclosure. They note 61 percent of low-income Georgia third-graders have decay despite 96 percent fluoridation coverage.
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