F.A.N. Newsletter

 

Researchers Warn Of Environmental Fluoride Contamination From Plaster Board Waste   While it has been known for years that fluoride contaminates the gypsum (calcium sulfate) that is used in wall board or plaster board, researchers from India and Japan have drawn attention to the potential environmental hazard to soil and water from exposure to the toxin during work to recycle the gypsum from board waste.

Read More

Five Years Later Australian Town Still Not Fluoridated A series of problems, including floods, worker shortages and the COVID pandemic, have blocked the construction of the new Gunnedah, Australia water plant and the start of its fluoridation program that was approved by the Shire Council more than five years ago.

Read More

Buffalo Stopped Fluoridating Its Water Seven Years Ago To Avoid Risk Of Lead Poisoning   In the wake of the Flint, Michigan water disaster of 2014 in which many people were poisoned by lead from plumbing that was exposed to improperly treated corrosive water from the Flint River, the City of Buffalo discontinued its water fluoridation program, according to a report in the Buffalo News.

Read More

Irish Health Research Board Continues To Find No Evidence Fluoride Can Harm Ireland’s agency for funding, coordinating and overseeing health research has again expressed no concern over the considerable body of evidence of adverse health effects from fluoridation of drinking water in its new report released in November.       The Republic of Ireland is the only country in Europe that suffers under a national water fluoridation mandate, begun in 1964.

Read More