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May 08, 2023, 09:00 ET CDC Data Shows More US Children are Overexposed to Fluoride Than Ever Before

Government data shows that tens-of-millions of U.S. residents have visible signs of overexposure to fluoride. The US Centers For Disease Control's...

May 07, 2023, 16:11 ET "Blame the Victim" Tactic of Lead Paint Industry Now Used by Defenders of Fluoridation

A new report released by Fluoride Action Network (FAN) based on emails it has obtained through Freedom of Information reveals the tactics dentists...

May 07, 2023, 09:26 ET Dentist Groups Use Tobacco and Chemical Industry Playbook to Attack Science and Scientists Finding Fluoride Lowers IQ

he Fluoride Action Network (FAN) has issued a report on the reaction of dental lobby groups to the release of a long-delayed government report on...

May 03, 2023, 17:31 ET Fluoride is the New Lead; Similar Loss of IQ From Fluoride as From Lead, Reports Environmental Group

The Fluoride Action Network (FAN) describes a new National Toxicology Program (NTP) report on fluoride neurotoxicity as confirming what experts have...

Apr 25, 2023, 16:44 ET DATES SET FOR SECOND PHASE OF FEDERAL FLUORIDE TRIAL

After nearly 3 years of delay by the National Toxicology Program (NTP) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) – and only due to legal...

Mar 16, 2023, 18:27 ET Government Report Finds No Safe Level of Fluoride in Water; Fluoridation Policy Threatened

A court order has led to the National Toxicology Program (NTP) releasing a finalized systematic review of fluoride's neurotoxicity that was blocked...

Mar 15, 2023, 10:45 ET Suppressed Government Report Finding Fluoride Can Reduce Children's IQ Made Public Under EPA Lawsuit

The final report of a 6-year National Toxicology Program (NTP) review of fluoride neurotoxicity was blocked from public release by the Health and...

Feb 15, 2023, 11:35 ET New Study Links Fluoride Exposure With Hypothyroidism In Pregnancy and Lower IQ of Children

Researchers say healthy thyroid function is crucial for fetal brain development and their latest research may explain earlier findings that pre-natal ...

May 11, 2022, 09:09 ET Concern over University of North Carolina child medical experiment in low-income community

A University of North Carolina (UNC) dentist is recruiting infants from Lenoir County, NC, for an experiment exposing them to fluoride, which has...

Jun 16, 2021, 14:11 ET Experts confirm extremely low levels of fluoride reduce IQ, according to the Fluoride Action Network

A Benchmark Dose Analysis (BMD) by Grandjean et al., just published in the journal Risk Analysis, confirms that extremely low fluoride exposure...

Feb 16, 2021, 08:00 ET According to Fluoride Action Network, the NAS strengthens findings on fluoride's neurotoxicity

The Fluoride Action Network (FAN), a non-profit group dedicated to education on fluoride's toxicity, finds that the National Academies of Sciences'...

Oct 06, 2020, 16:13 ET National Toxicology Program confirms fluoride a brain hazard, according to Fluoride Action Network

In 2019, the National Toxicology Program (NTP), the research arm for U.S. government agencies, performed the first systematic government review on...

Jun 22, 2020, 16:53 ET Fluoridation real risk for neurotoxicity scientists tell judge in TSCA trial against EPA

The Fluoride Action Network (FAN) in a just-concluded trial (June 8 -17) on the neurotoxic risks posed by water fluoridation, was encouraged by a...

Jun 10, 2020, 12:07 ET Fluoridation Trial: Fluoride In Water Is 'Endangering' Children's IQs: 2nd day of strong testimony

A key witness in a federal lawsuit to ban the use of fluoridation chemicals in public water supplies testified Tuesday that American exposure to...

Jun 08, 2020, 10:05 ET Neurotoxicity Experts Lead Off Federal Fluoridation Trial

Top experts in children's brain development were scheduled to lead off testimony Monday in a groundbreaking case that challenges the nation's water...

May 14, 2020, 09:30 ET 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...

Apr 20, 2020, 15:06 ET Video Trial on Fluoridation Chemicals Set for June 8 in Federal Court

Twice-delayed, a lawsuit seeking to prohibit the addition of fluoridation chemicals to public water systems in the U.S. because of the threat...

Mar 24, 2020, 09:30 ET Federal trial against EPA on fluoridation postponed due to coronavirus

A legal case challenging the safety of water fluoridation which was set for a two-week trial in April in federal district court in San Francisco has...

Mar 06, 2020, 10:15 ET Federal report finding fluoride lowers IQ of children reviewed by National Academy of Sciences

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) just released an assessment of a draft report on fluoride neurotoxicity produced by the National Toxicology...

Feb 10, 2020, 12:33 ET Fluoridation useless and especially harmful to poor children, research shows

According to Healthy People 2020, America's poorest children suffer high tooth decay rates, double that of non-poor children. Seventy-five years of...

Nov 21, 2019, 16:17 ET New study: Fluoridation lowers IQ of formula-fed babies - UPDATE

A study published this week found a large decrease in the IQ of children who had been fed infant formula reconstituted with fluoridated tap water...

Nov 20, 2019, 12:22 ET New study: Fluoridation lowers IQ of formula-fed babies

A study published this week found a large decrease in the IQ of children who had been fed infant formula reconstituted with fluoridated tap water,...

Oct 25, 2019, 14:07 ET FAN Comments on NTP Study: "Fluoride is presumed to be a cognitive neurodevelopmental hazard to humans"

On Oct 22, the National Toxicology Program (NTP) published a draft review of fluoride's neurotoxicity concluding: "…fluoride is presumed to be a...

Aug 30, 2019, 09:32 ET Several In Utero Fluoride/IQ Studies Should Provoke A Nation-Wide Fluoridation Moratorium

Critics of the fluoride-IQ study published this month in JAMA Pediatrics claimed it needed replication. However, the Canadian study by Green (2019)...

Aug 21, 2019, 13:02 ET Criticisms of Recent JAMA Fluoride/IQ Study Are Unfounded

A newly published carefully-researched and meticulously peer-reviewed US government-funded study published in JAMA Pediatrics reports maternal...