Punta Gorda, Florida, Utility Advisory Board Meeting
June 22, 2009
A local dentist is voicing concern that Punta Gorda, Florida, is not fluoridated, He is already collecting endorsements from local organizations. At least one Board Member seemed against it but the dentist plans to bring his arguments to the County (Charlotte County Utilities).
One board member said […]

REASON: Commissioners want to change urban boundaries to develop agricultural lands. My Letter proposes developing lands as organic food source.
CONTACT: Commissioners by phone at (772) 288-5440 or e-mail - commissioners@martin.fl.us
DEADLINE: July 14 - August 1, 2009
July 14, 2009
Hello,
My Letter to the Editor (attached below) is in the Stuart News today, July 14, about developing organic […]

New York – April 29, 2009 — Blood  fluoride levels were significantly higher in patients with osteosarcoma than in  control groups, according to research published in Biological Trace Element Research  (April 2009).  
Osteosarcoma, a rare bone cancer, occurs mostly in children  and young adults Randhu and colleagues measured serum fluoride levels in three equal groups […]

Fluoride may damage bones of kidney patients  
New  York – June 9 – The National Kidney Foundation withdrew  its support of
water fluoridation citing the 2006 National Research Council  (NRC) report
indicating that kidney patients are more susceptible to fluoride’s  bone and
teeth-damaging effects.
The  kidney-impaired retain more fluoride and risk skeletal fluorosis (an  
arthritic-type bone disease), fractures and […]

So much talking, so much analyzing, but which presidential candidate is anti-flouride? The public record doesn’t show which candidate have maturity,courage, or ability to effectively deal with citizen’s concern. I have asked myself this and other questions about our next election and I for sure my answer will be the anti-flouride candidate. But I wonder […]

New York – July 16, 2007 — Fluoride supplements put children six and under at significant risk of permanently discolored teeth, according to a review of studies recently posted on the American Dental Association’s (ADA) web site in their new section, “evidence-based dentistry,” for dentists and their patients. (1)
Fluoride supplements, in graduating amounts up […]

New York — May 2007 — Scientists report a link between dental fluorosis and periodontal disease in the June 2007 Indian Journal of Dental Research. (1)
Dental fluorosis - white spotted, yellow, brown stained and/or pitted teeth - is a visual manifestation of fluoride overdose during childhood. Dental fluorosis afflicts from 1/3 to 1/2 of U.S. […]

New York – May 10 – Contrary to belief, fluoridation is damaging teeth with little cavity reduction, according to a review of recent studies reported in Clinical Oral Investigations.(1)
Pizzo and colleagues reviewed English-language fluoridation studies published from January 2001 to June 2006 and write, “Several epidemiological studies conducted in fluoridated and non-fluoridated communities suggest that […]

New York – March 12, 2007
– Trace amounts of arsenic are found in fluoride chemicals added to drinking water supplies, reports the U.S. Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) web site. (1)
Fluoridation is a controversial attempt to reduce tooth decay in tap-water consumers.
Fluoridation chemicals - sodium fluoride, sodium fluorosilicate, and fluorosilicic acid (FSA) – are all […]

American Dental Assn. Cautions Against Fluoridated Water in Formula.
“LOS ANGELES, Feb. 21 — Plans to add fluoride to Southern Californians’ tap water this summer are raising concerns that parents may not know of the potential risks of using fluoridated water to mix infant formula.
“The Metropolitan Water District (MWD), which supplies 18 million people in six […]

Bulletin #616
July 13, 2006
Dear All,

Our Minnesota Dream Team member Jason Krueger is “buzzing” again.

WCCO (a CBS affiliate in Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN) will be airing a story that he has been working on with consumer reporter, Terri Gruca for several months on Thursday, July 13, 2006 at 10:00 PM CST (that’s tonight). It is not […]

Bulletin #615
July 13, 2006
Dear All,

Congratulations to Randall Weiner and his team (Boulder Clean Water Advocates) for getting enough signatures to put their Clean Water Initiative on the November ballot (see story below). If this measure passes it would prevent the use of industrial grade hexafluorosilicic acid as a fluoridating agent in Boulder. Collecting these signatures […]

Organicconsummers.org
June 7, 2006
In a message dated 6/7/2006 8:26:10 PM Eastern Standard Time, listadmin@organicconsumers.org writes:

EPA ADMINISTRATORS PRESSURE STAFF TO OVERLOOK TOXIC PESTICIDES
Government scientists are blowing the whistle on the Environmental Protection Agency’s attempts to allow the continued use of 20 hazardous organophosphate pesticides. Nine thousand EPA scientists have submitted a strongly worded letter to the EPA’s […]

On March 22, 2006, the National Academies’ National Research Council released a 3- year study evaluating the EPA’s maximum contaminant level for fluoridation. The focus of this report was not to determine if water fluoridation was a good idea, but to determine if American citizens were getting overdosed with fluoride in their daily lives.
But […]

FAN Bulletin #558
April 7, 2006
Dear All,

Frances Pane has sent us the article below from today’s Windsor-Hights Herald, which is very encouraging. In the wake of the NRC review, the Borough Board of Health is considering a recommendation to ban fluoridation in the Borough of Highstown. I suspect that similar discussions are going on around the […]

[PR NEWSWIRE - 2006-03-30]
NEW YORK, MARCH 30 Fluoride jeopardizes health — even at low levels deliberately added to public water supplies — according to a recent National Academy of Sciences’ (NAS) National Research Council (NRC) report. Fluoride poses risks to the thyroid gland, diabetics, kidney patients, high water drinkers and others and can severely damage […]