FLUORIDE ACTION NETWORK
http://www.FluorideAlert.Org

FAN Bulletin #977

June 28, 2008

Dear Supporter

The article below “National Kidney Foundation drops support of fluoridation” appeared recently on the dental industry website, DrBicuspid.com. Dan Stockin believes that this is the beginning of a series of withdrawals from the ADA’s list of endorsers of fluoridation, once they get word that the findings of the National Research Council report. These findings present them with significant legal liabilities if they continue to blindly support or promote fluoridation and fail to warn their members and patients of potential dangers. The Diabetes groups could be next to fall.

Meanwhile, the Chicago Tribune has written an important article detailing how fluoridation is starting to receive scrutiny in the very town where it all began: Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Paul Connett

###

Chicago Tribune

Towns Question Fluoride Use
Opposition to chemical presence in water supply gains voice in the city where it all started

By Tim Jones | Tribune correspondent
1:38 AM CDT, June 23, 2008

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.-The great American assault on tooth decay began here 63 years ago, earning Grand Rapids a special place in the annals of dental history: the first city in the world to fluoridate its public water system.

So it is more than a little head-scratching that fluoride, the chemical widely credited with dramatically cutting cavities and promoting oral hygiene, is having its scientific credentials questioned in the city that literally swallowed it first.

Read the whole article.