Oct 18th, 2007
EPA: Fluoride is Hazardous Waste
“any person who drinks artificially fluoridated water for a period of one year or more will never again be the same person mentally or physically.”
-Charles E. Perkins, Chemist.
Is fluoride a health risk? Especially for our infants and young children? The NRC says to rub it on the teeth only of children and adults, yet it is continually added to water and other consumer products - even bottled water for babies. Fluoridation is a medical experiment. Without any solid proof that ingesting fluoride is beneficial for our teeth-and with no safety tests conducted to determine its potential effects on the rest of your body - the government moved forward with the mass medication of the country’s water supply.
Some water districts are discontinuing the practice of adding fluoride to the public water based on mounting research and data. Just because we’ve been doing it for fifty years,should we continue adding medicine to our water? The National Research Council believes young people are getting 3-4 times the dose as adults, and the ADA now warning mothers not to make formula with fluoride water because of fear of dental fluorosis. Will it take patients on dialysis and people with borderline kidney damage and hypothyroidism. A Nobel Prize winner and scientist - Arbid Carlson - and a large group of EPA scientists have called for banning of fluoride in water. Why hasn’t the state department figured this out yet?
As of October 15, 2007, FAN (Fluoride Action Network) released a statement signed by over 1,075 professionals calling for an end to fluoridation and a call to legislators in fluoridating countries to hold hearings to determine why, after the release of the landmark National Research Council report in 2006, aggressive promotion of fluoridation continues.
As of October 15, 2007, the signers include:
• 170 Dentists (DDS and DMD)
• 152 PhD’s (includes DSc, Doctor of Science)
• 148 MD’s
• 117 DC’s (Doctor of Chiropractic)
• 70 Nurses (RN and BSN)
• 68 ND’s (Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine)
• 23 Lawyers (JD and LLB)
• 22 RDHs (Registered Dental Hygienist)
• 13 DO’s (Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine)
* 11 LAc’s (Licensed Acupuncturist)
According to Dr. Paul Connett, the Executive Director of FAN, “What we are seeing here is the judgment of professionals across the world, not trapped by a ‘fluoridation belief system,’ that the information on the health effects contained in the National Research Council report of 2006, together with a growing number of peer reviewed studies showing that fluoridation has only weak or no benefits, leads to one conclusion: the meager benefits do not outweigh the serious risks and fluoridation must be stopped.”
Connett adds, “Now our task is to get health officials, regulators, and the media to exercise due diligence in this matter and seriously examine the information presented in the Professionals’ Statement. Fluoridation will only end in the US when officials in the Oral Health Division of the CDC are forced to defend, under oath, their zealous promotion of this practice. They appear to be oblivious to its ineffectiveness and the dangers it poses to the American people – and people in the handful of other fluoridated countries.”
FAN has organized an ONLINE ACTION PETITION to Congress allowing citizens to add their support to the Professionals’ Statement and the call for new Congressional Hearings.
Update: Water Fluoridation has hit the main stream media. After decades being brushed aside, the Scientific American released an article about the dangers of fluoride if its overused, revealing that it’s almost impossible not to overuse it.
FACTS ABOUT FLUORIDE
- An August 2006 Chinese study found that fluoride in drinking water damages children’s liver and kidney functions.
- In 2005, a study conducted at the Harvard School of Dental Health found that fluoride in tap water directly contributes to causing bone cancer in young boys. “New American research suggests that boys exposed to fluoride between the ages of five and 10 will suffer an increased rate of osteosarcoma - bone cancer - between the ages of 10 and 19,” according to a London Observer article about the study.
- Fluoride is a waste by-product of the fertilizer and aluminum industry and it’s also a Part II Poison under the UK Poisons Act 1972.
- Fluoride is one of the basic ingredients in both PROZAC (FLUoxetene Hydrochloride) and Sarin nerve gas (Isopropyl-Methyl-Phosphoryl FLUoride).
- USAF Major George R. Jordan testified before Un-American Activity committees of Congress in the 1950’s that in his post as U.S.-Soviet liaison officer, the Soviets openly admitted to “Using the fluoride in the water supplies in their concentration camps, to make the prisoners stupid, docile, and subservient.”
- The first occurrence of fluoridated drinking water on Earth was found in Germany’s Nazi prison camps. The Gestapo had little concern about fluoride’s supposed effect on children’s teeth; their alleged reason for mass-medicating water with sodium fluoride was to sterilize humans and force the people in their concentration camps into calm submission. (Ref. book: “The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben” by Joseph Borkin.)
- 97% of western Europe has rejected fluoridated water due to the known health risks, however 10% of Britons drink it and the UK government is trying to fast track the fluoridation of the entire country’s water supply.
- In Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg fluoridation of water was rejected because it was classified as compulsive medication against the subject’s will and therefore violated fundamental human rights.
- In November of 2006, the American Dental Association (ADA) advised that parents should avoid giving babies fluoridated water.
- Sources of fluoride include: fluoride dental products, fluoride pesticides, fluoridated pharmaceuticals, processed foods made with fluoridated water, and tea.
- “Today almost 60 percent of the U.S. population drinks fluoridated water, including residents of 46 of the nation’s 50 largest cities,” reports Scientific American’s Dan Fagin. Fagin is an award-wining environmental reporter and Director of New York University’s Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program.
- The Scientific American study “Concluded that fluoride can subtly alter endocrine function, especially in the thyroid — the gland that produces hormones regulating growth and metabolism.”
- The report also notes that “a series of epidemiological studies in China have associated high fluoride exposures with lower IQ.”
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