Fluoride Action Network

The Fluoride Action Network (FAN) is an U.S. registered tax-deductible non-profit organization dedicated to raising awareness of the health effects of fluoride ingestion (due to water fluoridation as well as other sources), which it believes are problematic due to fluoride's toxicity. It was founded in May 2000 and is based in Canton, New York, United States. FAN's executive director is Paul Connett, a retired chemistry professor from St. Lawrence University. His wife Ellen and his son Michael also serve on the board, and individuals from twelve nations including scientists, medical professionals and concerned citizens joined in its founding. FAN now lists a worldwide membership in the multiple thousands.
The organization has distributed petitions requesting the abolition of water fluoridation and has supported country wide, state and local campaigns throughout those countries that continue to practice fluoridation. FAN disseminates materials supporting their cause via its website. Connett gives presentations and testimony in many countries and local campaigns in support of the goals of FAN. Through its diverse efforts and collection of scientific research materials, a great number of which come from widely accepted sources of peer reviewed experimentation, FAN has come to represent the anti-fluoridation point of view by United States and world media.
In 2004 FAN reorganized and became a project of the American Environmental Health Studies Project (AEHSP) and now is a registered tax-deductible non-profit organization, which Connett now directs.
In 2010 the Fluoride Action Network hired Stuart Cooper to be its campaign director and Tara Blank as its science adviser. The first campaign undertaken by FAN upon acquiring new personnel was to get water utilities to add warnings to water bills not to use fluoridated water for infants. The information used to justify the request comes from a notification given by both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and by the American Dental Association in 2006.

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