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Food Safety

Contaminants, chemicals, genetically engineered food and what is really in the food supply.

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Some of FAN's Achievements and Victories in 2015

The Fluoride Action Network's fundraising appeal reports $125,530 raised from 484 donors and remembers Professor Robert Isaacson, who led the team behind a 1998 Brain Research study that found rats given 1 ppm fluoride for a year developed kidney and brain damage.

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Just two days left to support our 2016 campaign!

A Fluoride Action Network fundraising appeal reporting $108,637 raised from 449 donors, announcing Michael as incoming director and releasing a public service announcement on dental fluorosis.

Dec 30, 2015

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Our Plans for 2016 - Fluoridealert.org

The Fluoride Action Network reports raising $95,810 from 406 donors toward a $200,000 year-end target, describes matching pledges from three donors, and has its new executive director outline the investigative work planned for 2016.

Dec 29, 2015

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FAN Releases New PSAs and Online Campaign

The Fluoride Action Network reports $98,428 raised from 430 donors toward a $200,000 goal, with supporters pledging $5,000 and $10,000 at the $100,000 and $110,000 marks, and releases two short PSAs on fluoride aimed at younger viewers.

Dec 29, 2015

Chemical

High ingested fluoride can damage skeletal bone

A Chinese study suggests high fluoride intake from drinking water and food may also damage skeletal bone, disturbing the arrangement of collagen fibers and lowering COL1A1 transcription and collagen production. Fluoride is added to about 74% of U.S. public drinking water.

Dec 25, 2015

Biological

Clones and GE Foods head to the Dinner Table

After the FDA approved the AquAdvantage salmon in late 2015, this piece surveys other engineered food animals in the works: Roslin Institute chickens laying eggs containing interferon, and pigs engineered to produce their own omega-3 fatty acids.

Dec 23, 2015

Biological

Is US Venison Safe To Eat? Not Necessarily

Chronic wasting disease now affects deer in at least 22 states. Officials say no evidence shows it infects people, but the piece cites a 2002 CDC report on three young CJD patients who ate deer or elk and 2006 Science papers finding prions in deer muscle and saliva.

Dec 23, 2015

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Rick North: Why I Trust the Fluoride Action Network

The Fluoride Action Network reports raising $3,515 from 13 donors, bringing its drive to $69,362 from 295 supporters, and publishes Portland activist Rick North's account of why he backs the group after a 21-year career with the American Cancer Society.

Dec 22, 2015

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New Evidence of Harm from Fluoridation

Fluoride Action Network opens a look back at 2015, with campaign manager Stuart Cooper summarizing studies he says show harm from fluoridation, starting with one on ADHD. The bulletin also reports $65,847 raised from 280 donors toward a $75,000 goal.

Dec 21, 2015

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Join in FAN's "12-days of Christmas" Competition

The Fluoride Action Network reports raising $62,827 from 264 supporters toward a $75,000 Christmas Eve goal, and invites donors to guess the campaign's final dollar and donor totals in a 12 days of Christmas competition.

Dec 19, 2015

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Protecting Your Family from Fluoride

A Fluoride Action Network bulletin combining a fundraising update, $47,422 from 235 supporters, with campaign manager Stuart Cooper's summary of the group's advice on avoiding fluoride from water and other sources.

Dec 18, 2015

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"The Hanukkah Miracle" (FAN exclusive)

The Fluoride Action Network reports its fundraiser has reached $39,978 from 218 supporters, then explains Israel's “Hanukkah Miracle”: new health minister Yaakov Litzmann overturned the country's fluoridation ban without offering a scientific basis.

Dec 17, 2015

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Kyle's Story, Part 3: What's wrong with that turkey?

FAN's fundraiser reached $38,968 from 207 supporters after Dr. Mercola's matching pledge. Paul Connett introduces part three of a mother's account of her son Kyle's fluoride sensitivity, arguing no health agency has funded research into individual sensitivity to fluoride.

Dec 16, 2015

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Kyle's Story, Part 2: Showers that hurt

A Fluoride Action Network bulletin pairing a fundraising update, $33,036 from 182 donors, with part two of a mother's account of her autistic son Kyle, whom she describes as hypersensitive to fluoridated water, including while showering and bathing.

Dec 16, 2015

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Kyle's Story: A Mother's Letter to FAN Members

In a letter to Fluoride Action Network members, Audrey Adams describes her son Kyle, 30 and autistic, whom she says is severely hypersensitive to fluoride, and credits FAN's website and advocates with helping her work out how to protect him. The letter also updates FAN's fundraiser.

Dec 16, 2015

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New Fluoride/Brain Study Could End Fluoridation

The National Toxicology Program says evidence linking fluoride to impaired brain development is now sufficient to warrant investigating effects on learning and memory, FAN reports, citing a 2012 Harvard meta-review and a 2014 Lancet paper naming fluoride a developmental neurotoxin.

Dec 16, 2015

Chemical

Are You Consuming These Livestock Drugs Without Knowing It?

A 2010 Inspector General report found beef released to the public carrying penicillin, florfenicol, sulfa drugs, ivermectin, flunixin and heavy metals. The writer contrasts this with the European Commission's 1989 hormone ban and its view that steroid hormones are tied to certain cancers.

Dec 16, 2015

GMO

Still deadly - newsletter 121315 -Organic Consumers Association

The Organic Consumers Association tracks the year-end budget fight, warning that GMO labeling preemption could be attached to the Child Nutrition Act and the omnibus, and that grocery manufacturers are pushing a two-year stall of state laws that would block Vermont's July start date.

Dec 13, 2015

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