Professionals Urge End to Water Fluoridation
November 25, 2007
New York - Over 1,100 dentists, physicians, scientists, academics and environmentalists urge Congress to stop water fluoridation until Congressional hearings are conducted. They cite new scientific evidence that fluoridation, long promoted to fight tooth decay, is ineffective and has serious health risks. (fluorideaction.org)
Signers include a Nobel Prize winner, three members of the prestigious 2006 National Research Council (NRC) panel that reported on fluoride’s toxicology, two officers in the Union representing professionals at EPA headquarters, the President of the International Society of Doctors for the Environment, and hundreds of medical, dental, academic, scientific and environmental professionals, worldwide.
Signer Dr. Arvid Carlsson, winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize for Medicine, says, “Fluoridation is against all principles of modern pharmacology. It’s really obsolete.”
An Online Action Petition to Congress in support of the Professionals’ Statement is available on FAN’s web site, www.fluorideaction.org.
“The NRC report dramatically changed scientific understanding of fluoride’s health risks,” says Paul Connett, PhD, Executive Director, Fluoride Action Network. “Government officials who continue to promote fluoridation must testify under oath as to why they are ignoring the powerful evidence of harm in the NRC report,” he added.
An Assistant NY State Attorney General calls the report “the most up-to-date expert authority on the health effects of fluoride exposure.”
The Professionals’ Statement also references:
– The new American Dental Association policy recommending infant formula NOT be prepared with fluoridated water.
– The CDC’s concession that the predominant benefit of fluoride is topical not systemic.
– CDC data showing that dental fluorosis, caused by fluoride over-exposure, now impacts one third of American children.
– Major research indicating little difference in decay rates between fluoridated and non-fluoridated communities.
– A Harvard study indicating a possible link between fluoridation and bone cancer.
– The silicofluoride chemicals used for fluoridation are contaminated industrial waste and have never been FDA- approved for human ingestion.
The Environmental Working Group (EWG), a DC watchdog, revealed that a Harvard professor concealed the fluoridation/bone cancer connection for three years. EWG President Ken Cook states, “It is time for the US to recognize that fluoridation has serious risks that far outweigh any minor benefits, and unlike many other environmental issues, it’s as easy to end as turning off a valve at the water plant.”
Partially, as a result of this statement, at least one city, Cobleskill NY, stopped 54 years of water fluoridation. See: http://www.fluoridealert.org/news/2998.html
Many communities rejected or stopped fluoridation over the years. See: http://www.fluoridealert.org/communities.htm
On October 2, Juneau Alaska voters rejected fluoridation despite the American Dental Association’s $150,000 political campaign to return fluoride into the water supply after the legislative body voted it out.
Take Action to End Fluoridation. Sign the Online Petition to End Fluoridation and call for a Congressional Hearing
http://www.actionstudio.org/public/page_view_all.cfm?option=begin&pageid=8276
Contact: Bill Osmunson, DDS, MPH, Fluoride Action Network Spokesperson
bill@teachingsmiles.com Office 503.675.7300 Cell 425.466.0100 (Pacific Time)
or
Paul Connett, PhD, Canton, NY, Emeritus Professor of Chemistry and Executive Director, Fluoride Action Network, 315-379-9200 paul@fluoridealert.org
Sent: NYSCOF
Source: Fluoride Action Network http://www.FluorideAction.Net
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Indeed, those ruthless individuals, who deliberately & knowingly keep promoting this fraudulent shameless racket & practice, deserve to be held accountable for each act of harm, be it present, or future!!
- Posted by: Danny
Natural occurring fluoride is called calcium fluoride. Calcium mitigates the toxic effects of fluoride. It takes 20 times more calcium fluoride to kill 50% of laboratory guinea pigs than it takes for any of the three fluoridation compounds.
90% of tooth decay occurs where fluoridation was never claimed to be effective; the pits and fissures of teeth. Thus, for decades, dentists have been applying plastic sealants to the chewing surfaces of the molars.
The Journal of Public Health Dentistry reported, “50% of US Head Start children have had Baby Bottle Tooth Decay”. Use of Sippy Cups is extending this rampant decay caused by high levels of tooth-surface bacteria that thrive on sugar and pass their acidic waste onto the tooth surface causing the decay. Fluoridated water does not kill the strep mutan bacteria that causes tooth decay.
Advances in Dental Research, June, 1994:
“Overall, an average of 86.8% of the dose was retained by the infants, which is about 50% higher than would be expected for adults. …the pharmacokinetics of fluoride in infants reveal(s) a completely different pattern compared to what has been found in adults.” There is a clear need for more information about the renal handling and general metabolism of fluoride in young children and the elderly.”
- Posted by: Maureen Jones
To accelerate your awareness on the subject of fluoride and your FDA benefactors, go to Google Video and search for the 29 minute video called ‘Fluoride Deception’, a videotaped book review with the author/researcher Christopher Bryson. Ignorance (willfully ignoring) is not blissful. Now that you know, Share the Truth. Best wishes, Joe, a Ron Paul Supporter.
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