FAN News letter

 Fundraising Update

Since Friday, we've raised $1,180 from 21 supporters. This is doubled to $2,360 thanks to the $10,000 doubling pledge made by one of our "super-angels" 9 days ago. This bring our new total to $37,651 from 191 donors on our way to our year-end goal of $180,000 from 1000 donors.

We're incredibly grateful for all those who support FAN and our work, and remember that the next $1,847 will continued to be doubled!! 

Unfortunately, we're way behind our fundraising numbers from previous years. Please consider supporting our work in 2023. With the upcoming court ruling, publication of the NTP report, state legislation, the first RCT on fluoridation, and much more, this could be a landmark year, but we will be severely hampered without your support.

Residents Want Alcoa To Remove Waste In North Carolina

Residents of Badin, NC and vicinity want the state of North Carolina to require Alcoa to excavate and remove thousands of tons of fluoride- and cyanide-containing pot liner waste that may be contaminating local waters from its old aluminum smelting plant in that city.

13 Million At Risk Of Fluorosis In Pakistan

A new study using fluoride concentrations from over 5,000 sample sites and machine learning techniques estimates that 13 million people or six percent of the population in Pakistan are at risk of dental or skeletal fluorosis from naturally occurring fluoride in drinking water at a concentration of 1.5 mg/L or more.

Expanding Informed Consent:

Financial Toxicity, A New Form Of Iatrogenic Harm

H. Trendley Dean, the founder of water fluoridation, described mottled enamel (dental fluorosis) as a “chronic, low-grade poisoning of children.” Once the idea of adding fluoride to drinking water was adopted, he predicted only a small percentage of people would develop the mildest form of dental fluorosis. Today, the majority of youth in the USA shows some level of this poisoning with more than a million having moderate to severe forms.

New Zealand's Fluoridated Councils Are Often "Underfluoridated"

The Vermont water superintendent who was placed in the national focus in the USA for only adding low levels of fluoride to the Richmond, VT water supply would appear to have many like-minded colleagues in New Zealand.

WHO Uncritical Endorsement Of Fluoridation Ignores Evidence Of Harm

Despite a substantial body of evidence that fluoride at the level added to drinking water can have a neurotoxic effect on the developing brains of children, the World Health Organization (WHO) has published an uncritical endorsement of fluoridation in its recent report, Global Oral Health Status Report.