Re: What comes after fluoride? Chlorine? By Dr. Pasquale Duronio, Aug. 24.

Residents served by Windsor Utilities are indeed fortunate to drink water that is parasitefree. Chlorine helps ensure that. However, as Dr. Duronio well knows, fluoridation has nothing to do with water purification.

It is the practice of taking cleaned water and adding a bio-accumulative toxin called hydrofluorosilicic acid. Its purpose, we are led to believe, is to prevent tooth decay. How can any amount of a substance that is more toxic than lead be considered safe when it accumulates in your body over your lifetime?

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When lacking variable controlled science to back their claims, promoters of fluoridation, like Dr. Duronio, must resort to melodrama and ridicule of those opposing fluoridation. Perhaps he should watch the video Professional Perspectives on Water Fluoridation before insinuating fluoride is safe and effective.

Dr. William Marcus, senior toxicologist with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency cites concerns with fluoridation "not just on the cancer data, but on the evidence of bone fractures, arthritis, mutagenicity and other effects."

The Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment also opposes water fluoridation and the Fluoride Action Network has gathered nearly 4,000 signatures from scientists and medical professionals against water fluoridation. All lunatics, Dr. Duronio? I think not. I wonder how many of our elderly suffer hip fractures exacerbated by fluoridation, or how many people undergoing kidney dialysis would have been better off without it? The American Dental Association and Centre for Disease Control are now warning parents not to administer fluoridated water to infants or use fluoridated water to mix baby formula.

The Clean Water Act of 2006 requires immediate action be taken against significant threats to public drinking water supplies. It also directs communities to protect their drinking water. Wilfully adding toxic substances to our drinking water is inconsistent with the protection of our drinking water supply. Decades ago, our municipal government made the decision to "medicate" residents of Windsor, LaSalle and Tecumseh without individual informed consent. The Precautionary Principle states that if an action or policy has a suspected risk of causing harm to the public or to the environment, in the absence of scientific consensus that the action or policy is harmful, the burden of proof that it is not harmful falls on those taking the action.

Under the PP, city councillors are obligated to demand immediate suspension of water fluoridation, resuming the practice only when Windsor Utilities can provide scientifically sound documentation that demonstrates hydrofluorosilicic acid is both safe for human consumption and effective at reducing tooth decay.

DONNA MAYNE, Windsor

© Windsor Star 2011

http://www.epidemiology2010gerben.org/epidemiology/studies/limit-fluoride-to-prevent-lead-poisoning-study-says/

Limit Fluoride to Prevent Lead Poisoning, study says

Fluoride chemicals added to public water supplies, boosts lead absorption in lab animals' bones, teeth and blood, report Sawan, et al. (Toxicology 2/2010). Earlier studies already show children's blood-lead-levels are higher in fluoridated communities, reports Sawan's research team.

"…exposure to increased amounts of lead and fluoride occurs at about the same age (1-3 years)… Therefore, this is a critical time when systemic exposure to fluoride should be minimized since fluoride may increase lead accumulation," the researchers caution.

Low-level lead exposure is associated with lower IQ, ADHD and many health and behavior ailments. Fluoride chemicals are added to 70% of US public water supplies and virtually 100% of the food supply

NSF International is a private company that regulates public water supply additives. February 2008 NSF reported that 2% of the 245 fluoridation chemicals sampled from 2000 to 2006 had detectable levels of Lead. (There are approximately 155,000 US public water supplies.) Lead is an allowable trace contaminant in fluoridation chemicals along with antimony, arsenic, barium, beryllium, cadmium, chromium, copper, mercury, selenium, and thallium. See:

http://www.nsf.org/business/water_distribution/pdf/NSF_Fact_Sheet.pdf

Sawan's team put fluosilicic acid, with and without lead, into lab animals' drinking water. They found more lead in tooth enamel, surface bone, whole bone, and tooth dentine in rats co-exposed to fluoride and lead.

Possibly anticipating criticism that rats were fed higher fluoride-concentrated water than people drink, the authors write, "this concentration was chosen because it produces plasma fluoride levels that are comparable with those commonly found in humans…"

Increased prevalence and severity of fluoride-discolored teeth (fluorosis) proves US children are already fluoride-overexposed "which may cause their blood-lead levels to increase and produce more lead toxicity," they write.

"These findings suggest that a biological effect, not recognized so far, may underlie the epidemiological association between increased blood-lead levels in children and water fluoridation," concludes Sawan's research team.

"[O]ur findings may have serious implications for populations exposed to increased amounts of both lead and fluoride, particularly young children," the research team writes.

Attorney Paul Beeber, President, New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation (NYSCOF) says, "People need to lobby and petition their legislators to stop fluoridation in their towns, cities and states. Legislators are ignoring the science proving fluoridation is endangering our health, our water supplies and wasting tax dollars while denying freedom of choice." (see: http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/sitemap.html )

Masters and Coplan's landmark studies show higher blood-lead-levels in children living in silico-fluoridated communities (Neurotoxicology 2000, 2007). Macek's research shows children's higher blood-lead-levels are associated with water fluoridation when lead is already in the environment (Environmental Health Perspectives, 2006).

Some fluoridation chemicals originate in China, Mexico and Japan, reports the CDC. ABC-TV Boston reported that a Massachusetts city was forced to discontinue fluoridation because Chinese fluoridation chemicals were clogging up the water system with an unidentifiable contaminant.

About the Author

Dedicated to educating you about the scientifically valid reasons why swallowing fluoride is harmful to your health – at any level.

The Bush EPA and Fluoride

The following is a second excerpt from my submission to New Plymouth District Council on fluoridation. It describes a study the Bush EPA commissioned from the National Research Council that has been virtually ignored by the mainstream media.

Dental fluorosis - present in 41% of US teenagers

The EPA Commissions the National Research Council Study

In 2003 the EPA commissioned the National Research Council (part of the National Academy of Sciences) to examine all the peer reviewed research to make a determination whether an upper limit of 8 mg of fluoride (eight glasses of water with a fluoride concentration of 4 mg/litre) was still within the margin of safety. The NRC came back with the recommendation that 8 mg (4 mg/litre) was definitely too high – as patients were experiencing clear symptoms of chronic fluoride poisoning at this dose. Based on the high probability that Americans drinking fluoridated water were suffering serious and irreversible health damage, they also urgently recommended that the EPA ban water fluoridation until the safe threshold (based on urine fluoride measurements) could be determined.

Dental Fluorosis in 41% of American Teenagers

The most obvious evidence of low level fluoride poisoning is a condition known as dental fluorosis, an irreversible condition causing demineralization of the teeth, characterized by staining, pitting and flaking. Dental fluorosis is present in 41% of American children drinking fluoridated water (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db53.htm).

Studies of the biochemical processes that cause fluorosis demonstrate quite clearly that it's an irreversible demineralization of the tooth enamel. Despite claims to the contrary, this is not merely a "cosmetic" problem. As the European Union Scientific Committee on Health and Environmental Research reports in their 2010-2011 review, there are peer reviewed studies linking it with Stage II skeletal fluorosis – a demineralization of the bones causing a weakening of the bone matrix.

The Bush EPA Declines to Act

Under the extremely anti-scientific administration of George W. Bush, the EPA totally ceased to perform any regulatory function in maintaining clear air or water standards. Their failure to act on the NRC's urgent recommendations resulted in highly publicized protest action by eleven EPA unions representing over 7000 environmental and public health professionals

The following is from their 2005 press release:

"Studies in animals and human populations suggest that fluoride exposure, at levels that are experienced by a significant proportion of the population whose drinking water is fluoridated, may have adverse impacts on the developing brain. Though no final conclusions may be reached from available data, the findings are provocative and of significant public health concern. Perhaps most surprising is the relative sparseness of data addressing the central question of whether or not this chemical, which is intentionally added to drinking water, may interfere with normal brain development and function. Focused research should address this important matter urgently." (http://www.nteu280.org/Issues/Fluoride/Press%20Release.%20Fluoride.htm)

Below are perspectives of NRC panel members on their three year review:

"The difference between the levels of fluoride causing toxic effects and the levels added to water to prevent tooth decay is vanishingly small and deeply troubling." Dr. J. William Hirzy, Vice President, Environmental Protection Agency's Headquarters Union, Washington DC.

"l personally feel that the NRC report is relevant to many aspects of the water fluoridation debate… [T]he report discusses the wide range of drinking water intake among members of the population, which means that groups with different fluoride concentrations in their drinking water may still have overlapping distributions of individual fluoride exposure. In other words, the range of individual fluoride exposures at 1 mg/L will overlap the range of individual exposures at 2 mg/L or even 4 mg/L. Thus, even without consideration of differences in individual susceptibility to various effects, the margin of safety between 1 and 4 mg/L is very low." Dr. Kathleen Thiessen, NRC Panel Member.

"In my opinion, the evidence that fluoridation is more harmful than beneficial is now overwhelming and policy makers who avoid thoroughly reviewing recent data before introducing new fluoridation schemes do so at risk of future litigation." Dr. Hardy Limeback, NRC Panel Member.

NRC Findings Regarding Hypothyroidism, Brain Damage, Bone Cancer and Skeletal Fluorosis

The NRC Review also found a very strong link between water fluoridation and hypothyroidism, bone cancer in boys, brain damage (manifesting as low IQ, learning disability, memory problems and hyperactivity) and mild to moderate skeletal fluorosis (manifesting as arthritis, osteoporosis and increased fracture rates).

Only seven (mainly English speaking) countries continue to fluoridate water. At present Fluoride-free Taranaki is seeking to end water fluoridation here in New Plymouth. You can follow our progress on our Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/groups/207748655919333/ . The site is updated every time a local citizens group pressures their city or town to end fluoridation. Ninety-eight percent of Europe and 60 US cities have banned water fluoridation. If you're still drinking fluoridated tap water, contact the Fluoride Action Network at http://www.fluoridealert.org/

My full submission is eighteen pages long with twenty-one appendices. People can message me if they want a copy of the full document.

 

 

 

http://sisterearthorganics.wordpress.com/tag/dr-mckay-fluoride/

Fluoridated water…friend or foe?

When I decided to research this post on fluoride, I did so with a yawn. I really didn't expect to find anything shocking or discover concrete evidence on either side.

This ad is from the company, ALCOA, an aluminum plant, that started it all. Sodium fluoride is ALCOA's chemical waste product.

Man, was I wrong…
Let me preface this post by saying I strictly avoided websites and articles from "fringe fanatics" on either end. Odd thing was, I didn't need any information other than what was available via the US government's own websites to make the case to prove what a farce the whole "we need fluoride in our water" case really is.

What is fluoride?

Fluoride is a chemical. It occurs naturally in foods, natural minerals and soil, and it is produced artificially by chemical synthesis and as a by-product of computer, fertilizer, and aluminum production. It is found paired with other elements like sodium.

How did fluoride find its way into our drinking water?

We go back over 80 years ago, to 1931, where a small Colorado population was noted to have brown stained teeth and were subsequently studied to find out the cause. The cause, it was discovered, was ingestion of too much fluoride due to the fact that the town was located next to an aluminum factory. (Fluoride is a waste by-product of aluminum production). Some initial studies also indicated , surprisingly, that the brown teeth were resistant to tooth decay, but the results were not conclusive.

While a dentist, Dr McKay, discovered this fact, and tried to keep it under his hat until more studies could be conducted, the word spread "somehow" to the US government back east of his findings.
A scientist, Trendley Dean, from the "Public Health Service", was sent west to investigate it. His boss, a Mr. Andrew Mellon, Secretary of the United States Treasury at the time, was also was the founder and controlling shareholder of …wait for it….ALCOA…the very aluminum factory that caused the brown teeth in Colorado.

As mentioned before, some of the research suggested that the teeth, while brown and mottled, did not have the level of decay that was found in the general public.

So let's review…. you have a factory, owned by a US government official, belching a chemical by-product into the water supply that was affecting children's teeth by turning them brown. The teeth, although brown, were somewhat resistant to decay. It isn't surprising to learn, when you look at the players, that somehow this situation was "spun" from a company causing a dental illness to residents, into a profit making plan.
Mr Mellon, if he played his cards right, could market his factory's "chemical by-product waste, fluoride" and sell it back to the US government as a "beneficial water treatment for the American public". Smart guy.

I have to laugh at the absurdity of it all.

Mellon had his associate Gerald Cox immediately begin a campaign in the US to introduce fluoride into the water supply in the interest of "public health". He began by getting all the dentists and dental associations on board. Even though the data was not complete of even consistent, Cox's campaign was successful.
(I guess it didn't matter that until this point, fluoride compounds were marketed as rat and roach poison.)

So at the same time the original researcher, Dr. McKay was trying to limit the amount of fluoride in the water supply and inform about the dangers of too much fluoride, Mr Cox was campaigning to have it added it to the entire country's water supply!
(Of note is that Andrew Mellon was almost impeached for other reasons. He resigned to another position right before the House Judiciary Committee could vote.)

The first town to have fluoride added was Grand Rapids Michigan in 1945. The only problem was, scientists didn't tell the residents they were doing an experiment on them. Over the next 5 years, the tooth decay incidence declined in Grand Rapids. the scientists had their so called evidence and soon water was fluoridated everywhere.

Because there was no FDA or any regulatory commission for drugs, fluoride toothpaste went into rapid production. To this day, even though fluoride is found in hundreds of products, and is written as a prescription for infants, it has never been studied or approved by the FDA for use in anyone. But that's OK, because you can trust the US government, right?.

Some contradictions (and that's putting it mildly)

In 2006, the US government asked a large independent team of experts from across the country to form a committee to look at the safety of fluoride in water. There were separate groups to look at the risk of cancer, the risk of birth defects, etc. Their report, entitled "Fluoride in Drinking Water: A scientific review of the EPS standards", looked at all the data from day one. You can read the entire report here. (all 330-something pages)

The result of their study caused the EPA to lower their recommendation for fluoride additives in January of this year (2011) from 1.2/ppm (part per million) to 0.7/ppm. their reasons are clear:

• there is definite evidence that shows fluoride intake above 0.7 ppm (or 4 mg/L.. milligrams of fluoride per Liter of fluid) causes increased risk of bone fractures.
• there is evidence that fluoride intake above 4 mg/L causes fluorosis, or browning, pitting and mottling of the tooth enamel in developing teeth.
• they found no significant evidence linking fluoride and cancer, but recommended that further studies be done due to conflicting results. It states: "the evidence on the potential of fluoride to initiate or promote cancers, particularly of the bone, is tentative and mixed and that, overall, the literature does not clearly indicate that fluoride either is or is not carcinogenic in humans."

So how much fluoride is on your toothbrush when you fill it with fluoride toothpaste?

About 5000 ppm!!

The current CDC's website on fluoride safety states:

The weight of the peer-reviewed scientific evidence does not support an association between water fluoridation and any adverse health effect or systemic disorder, including an increased risk for…. bone fracture.

But the current EPA's website states:

Adults exposed to excessive consumption of fluoride over a lifetime may have increased likelihood of bone fractures, and may result in effects on bone leading to pain and tenderness.

and then there's:

Based on the data evaluated in this risk assessment, EPA concludes that it is likely that some children 8 and younger are exposed to too much fluoride.
(according to recent dental estimates, it's 40%…that's more than just "some")

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) "regulates the amount of fluoride that may be present in public water supplies to protect against fluoride's adverse health effects." There wouldn't be any adverse health effects from too much if it wasn't added in the first place.

The EPA states that fluoride is everywhere, and if it wasn't safe, we would see adverse effects. They state it's in tea, milk sugar, potatoes etc. and now that toothpastes and mouthwashes have fluoride, the levels added to water can be reduced. If it's everywhere, why does it need to be added to our water at all?

The EPA states that "many countries have also adopted fluoride additives to the water supply", Argentina (21%), Australia (61%), Brazil (41%), Canada (43%), Chile (40%), Colombia (80%), Israel (75%), Malaysia (70%), New Zealand (61%), and Singapore (100%). Of the Western European countries, the Republic of Ireland (73%), Spain (10%), and the United Kingdom (10%) as well.

But they don't tell you that only 13 countries still participate. Most have stopped because of public skepticism about the safety of the program.

On the EPA's site they admit there are "research gaps regarding the effects of long-term exposure to increased levels of fluoride." If there are research gaps shouldn't they be investigated before you have everyone in the country drinking it?

The CDC and the EPA have a goal to get 75% of the entire country drinking fluorinated water.

Drinking lots of water? Are you helping or hurting your health?

How can I get rid of the fluoride in my water?

The only way to rid your tap water of fluoride is by distilling it or reverse osmosis (reverse osmosis in a home could run about $5000 – $10,000.) Charcoal filters do nothing.

Then there's bottled water. The FDA says bottled water can contain up to 1.4 mg/L of fluoride. That's more than the EPA currently recommends for tap water. And there's really no way of knowing how much fluoride is in your bottled water when you buy it.

What's my fluoride tap water level?

If you live in the USA, you can click here to look up your county's water quality report. I just looked at mine, and fluoride is listed as a "contaminant" right alongside lead. The level was 1.02 mg/L which is higher than the new standards of 0.7 mg/L. I'm not happy. But since the EPA only recommends and does not enforce, there's nothing I can do other than dig a well.

Check to see where your state falls in the fluoride chart.

Conclusion

Fact: Fluoride reduces the amount of cavities in teeth at certain levels, but we don't know what the lowest level to be effective is.

Fact: We are getting enough fluoride in our daily intake of other foods, and the environment. See this study.

Fact: Fluoride accumulates over time in your body's system, and the longterm effects of this chemical has never been studied.

Fact: Regular moderate levels, like those seen across the country, can cause increased risk of bone fractures and crippling skeletal fluorosis involving bone deformities, pain and immobility in adults.

Fact: 40% of children show evidence of too much fluoride intake based on the incidence of 40% fluorosis or browning of the teeth.

Fact: Federal agencies can only recommend fluoride levels, they cannot enforce standards for safe levels.

Fact: You do not have the freedom to choose to "opt out" of the country's fluoride program unless you treat your water again when it enters your home. Unlike the government's program to put iodine in salt, I can't choose not to drink water.

Fact: The EPA's "Safe Drinking Water Act" is a bunch of crap. According to their own standards, my water isn't "safe" and there's nothing anyone can do about it. How is that providing me with safe water?

Fact: The EPA lists fluoride on its "contaminants" list right alongside uranium, lead and e.coli. The government is intentionally adding a "contaminant" to your drinking water, and then monitoring "harmful levels" of the stuff.

Fact: Fluoride toothpaste is toxic. You should only use a pea sized amount when supervising children's brushing. A child would die if they ingested the majority of a tube of toothpaste. If I had small children, I would have them using a non-fluoride toothpaste if they are drinking the tap water daily and seeing their dentist regularaly.

When your kids go to the dentist, do they really need an extra fluoride treatment? I say no. (…and I just deal with the looks I get from the hygienist with a smile.)

How do you like you water now?

References:

Dentists react to FDA's fluoride recommendation

EPA's site on fluoride
CDC Health effects of fluoride

CDC Community fluoride facts
News from the National Academies
Original 1950 report on fluoride

http://www.kipnews.org/2011/05/14/fluoride-who-supplies-your-poison/

Fluoride: Who Supplies Your Poison?

Posted: 14th May 2011 by MaxWild in Documentary, GeoPolitics & Global Warfare, Health & Nutrition
Tags: Documentary, fluoride, GeoPolitics & Global Warfare, Health and nutrition

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The story as told in the original mail is wrong in several points:

Mellon stepped back from his office in 1932 and died in 1937, before the
fluoride - caries hype began in the USA.

The discovery of fluoride as the cause of mottled teeth came to ALCOA as a
surprise and had nothing to do with any fluoride emissions. They wanted to check
the presence of soluble aluminium salts with their newly installed spectroscope,
yet discovered fluoride (more on my fluoride-history.de/bauxite.htm page).

Fluoride had already been recommended as a caries preventative in the 19th
century in Europe. While there was no definitive scientific support for this, a
few "alternative minded" physicians and chemists (agriculturists) proclaimed
beneficial effects. Among them Alvaro Reynoso, a Cuban chemist who then lived in
Paris (1873); a Dr. Carl Erhardt of Emmendingen (1874), who practiced balneology
and homeopathy; Dr. Schuessler, whose tissue remedies are famous even today,
recommended calcium fluoride to ease tooth eruption (for the first time in the
14th edition of 1887 of his booklet on an "abridged therapy..."). Dr. Julius
Hensel (author of "Bread from stones") recommended ammonium fluoride in 1881 to
build sound enamel. Not to forget a chemist of Mainz, Dr. Albert Deninger (1896
and 1906), who was a freemason. His recommendation led to the development of
many commercial fluoride preparations (fluoride toothpaste, and the Danish
product "fluoridens" of Cross & Co. (1902)). ...

These early recommendations apparently played no major role in Europe (nor in
Germany), however, but were also known to American researchers: Professor
Hermann Prinz, of Philadelphia, who mentioned some of that work in his "Dental
Materia Medica and Therapeutics" (edition of 1929 and earlier ones); and think
of the famous Osborne-Mendel salt mixture (invented about 1917), which contains
added sodium fluoride since its inventors thought that fluoride might perhaps be
useful. Much publicity followed after world war II, when Dean, Bibby and others
mentioned some of the early papers, and re-imported this knowledge to Europe
with their fluoridation propaganda.

BTW: In 1930 even Dr. Henri Velu still believed in a beneficial role of fluoride
as he wrote in his book on the nutrition of cattle ("Alimentation et aliments du
bétail au Maroc",p. 43).

The famous 1925 paper by nutritionist Dr. Elmer Verner McCollum and colleagues
on fluoride was based on the early European research and he originally wanted to
see by his experiment, if indeed fluoride would do any good to his animals. One
of his coauthors, dentist Dr. Russell Bunting, who also was one of the
councellors for the USPHS, invited H.T. Dean to visit Minonk and planted the
fluoride - caries seed in Dean's mind. ...

What followed is a story of its own ...


Peter Meiers

(http://www.fluoride-history.de)

Yes, Aliss, that's what I see from historic documents:
"Dean came to this water fluoridation idea already prepared to believe in it!"

After his mottled teeth research, a follow-up of the fluoride caries
relationship was a logical step - not only to keep his research position within
the USPHS for which dentistry had fought so many years. Shortly after Dean had
started his work in the USPHS, the appointed councellors decided that dental
caries was the more important subject for research and that the mottled teeth
project was just a preliminary topic. Since Bunting's hint in 1932 Dean started
collecting data on the caries prevalence.

When the epidemiological studies were done, fluoridation experiments would be
the next step. Garrettsville, Ohio, and Escanaba, Michigan, mixed certain water
supplies to bring the fluoride content to a higher level. Artificial
fluoridation was brought up from external sources (certain public health
dentists of Michigan and New York state), for the USPHS had neither the money
for the installation nor the jurisdiction over individual states to set up such
studies. ...


Peter


--- In FluoridePoisoning@yahoogroups.com, "Aliss" <aliss@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Peter,
>
> I am so glad you chimed in.
>
> So Dean came to this water fluoridation idea already prepared to believe in
it!
>
> Aliss
>
>
>
> From: FluoridePoisoning@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:FluoridePoisoning@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of petermeiers
> Sent: September-05-11 2:53 PM
> To: FluoridePoisoning@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [FluoridePoisoning] Re: ‘Dr Mckay fluoride’
>
>
>
>
>
>
> The story as told in the original mail is wrong in several points:
>
> Mellon stepped back from his office in 1932 and died in 1937, before the
fluoride - caries hype began in the USA.
>
> The discovery of fluoride as the cause of mottled teeth came to ALCOA as a
surprise and had nothing to do with any fluoride emissions. They wanted to check
the presence of soluble aluminium salts with their newly installed spectroscope,
yet discovered fluoride (more on my fluoride-history.de/bauxite.htm page).
>
> Fluoride had already been recommended as a caries preventative in the 19th
century in Europe. While there was no definitive scientific support for this, a
few "alternative minded" physicians and chemists (agriculturists) proclaimed
beneficial effects. Among them Alvaro Reynoso, a Cuban chemist who then lived in
Paris (1873); a Dr. Carl Erhardt of Emmendingen (1874), who practiced balneology
and homeopathy; Dr. Schuessler, whose tissue remedies are famous even today,
recommended calcium fluoride to ease tooth eruption (for the first time in the
14th edition of 1887 of his booklet on an "abridged therapy..."). Dr. Julius
Hensel (author of "Bread from stones") recommended ammonium fluoride in 1881 to
build sound enamel. Not to forget a chemist of Mainz, Dr. Albert Deninger (1896
and 1906), who was a freemason. His recommendation led to the development of
many commercial fluoride preparations (fluoride toothpaste, and the Danish
product "fluoridens" of Cross & Co. (1902)). ...
>
> These early recommendations apparently played no major role in Europe (nor in
Germany), however, but were also known to American researchers: Professor
Hermann Prinz, of Philadelphia, who mentioned some of that work in his "Dental
Materia Medica and Therapeutics" (edition of 1929 and earlier ones); and think
of the famous Osborne-Mendel salt mixture (invented about 1917), which contains
added sodium fluoride since its inventors thought that fluoride might perhaps be
useful. Much publicity followed after world war II, when Dean, Bibby and others
mentioned some of the early papers, and re-imported this knowledge to Europe
with their fluoridation propaganda.
>
> BTW: In 1930 even Dr. Henri Velu still believed in a beneficial role of
fluoride as he wrote in his book on the nutrition of cattle ("Alimentation et
aliments du bétail au Maroc",p. 43).
>
> The famous 1925 paper by nutritionist Dr. Elmer Verner McCollum and colleagues
on fluoride was based on the early European research and he originally wanted to
see by his experiment, if indeed fluoride would do any good to his animals. One
of his coauthors, dentist Dr. Russell Bunting, who also was one of the
councellors for the USPHS, invited H.T. Dean to visit Minonk and planted the
fluoride - caries seed in Dean's mind. ...
>
> What followed is a story of its own ...
>
> Peter Meiers
>
> (http://www.fluoride-history.de)
>

Science is lacking for fluoridation argument; Letters


  Western Daily Press
  September 6, 2011


Since the Director of Public Prosecutions appears to have put a spoke in the
Prime Minister's wheel by insisting that all criminal acts are treated on the
proverbial level playing field, he won't be able to avoid using his big stick on
the British Dental Association. Described as a trade union for dentists, the
BDA, using assumed power very much out of scale with its political status, is
about to engage in ramming through a measure of compulsory medication in the
forthcoming debate on the Health and Social Care Bill.

This Bill has been on the Government's books for some time and now, having
achieved a documentary blockbuster of 450 pages, it is being given all of two
days of debate. How things have changed since the Fox Hunting Bill.

The BDA wants to dominate the debate with its nanny state insistence that
fluoridation - the practice of poisoning everyone's drinking water - is a safe,
proven and effective way of treating juvenile dental decay.

Global evidence accumulated over the last half century utterly refutes this
proposition. Fluoridation has been widely discredited on ethical, physical and
mental platforms. It is a scam devised by people in high places in health
administration interested only in cashing in on its financial incentives.

However, more recently it has come under scrutiny by the European Court of
Justice. The ECJ has been instrumental in the rigorous interpretation of the new
definitions of water: tap water, medicinal water and functional water, the
latter being related with our range of soft drinks. Medicinal water can be any
water product for which a medicinal benefit has been claimed, whether true or
false. Medicinal value takes precedence over functional and on that basis alone,
statefluoridated water must be subject to the same pharmacological testing as
applies to all medicines whether retailed or prescribed. Since the fluoridating
agent in current use is an unrefined, untested waste product of the fertiliser
industry, it could not, short of outright fraud, pass such a test and in those
parts of the country, notably the West Midlands, which have been fluoridated for
the last 40 years, a legitimacy test of that intervention is long overdue.
Notwithstanding the current legislative position, the British Dental Association
expects to plough on unobstructed with manipulating this Bill to its own
self-centred advantage. That particular advantage lies in the vast sums to be
made from treating - but never curing - the socially repulsive condition known
as dental fluorosis, which will affect a substantial proportion of the
fluoridated population, especially the young. At Ł300 plus per tooth, repeatable
every five years, the treatment can only be privately funded since the NHS,
having promoted fluoridation, has defined fluorosis as "merely cosmetic" and
declines to include it within its agenda of low cost or free-of-charge
treatments. The slogan in the US which introduced fluoridation as a legalised
chemical fly-tipping cop-out for the defence industry was "Fluoride gives poor
kids rich kids' teeth." Nothing could be further from the truth. The poorest
children in the most fluoridated cities of America have the worst teeth of all.
Fluorosis cosmetic dentistry is utterly beyond their means.

Fluoridation is illegal and cannot sustain any insurance claim. Bernard J Seward
Henleaze, Bristol

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Kota Kinabalu: The Young Malaysians Movement (YMM) Sabah urged the Health Ministry to reconsider its plan to add fluoride to the water supply to address dental health problems in Sabah in view of the chemical's negative effect on health in the long-run.

Its Chairman, Deric Chiew, said the move does not resolve the problem and that the Ministry should consider tackling the issue through education and creating awareness among parents and children.

The YMM was not against the government's move to find a solution to the dental health problem among the children in Sabah, which had been listed top in the country.

"However, the suitability and also the effectiveness should be considered," he said, adding that according to the World Health Organisation (WHO) it was never agreed for fluoride to be mixed in the water supply, as it contained poison substance and used over a long term, will ruin health.

According to the America Disease Control Centre review, fluoride contained a huge substance of poison and an overdose or misuse will put human health in a high risk situation such as bone cancer, bone fracture, arthritis, skeletal flourosis, impaired thyroid hormone and also child mental development.

Chiew who is also the a YMM vice president said reliable sources stated that the Ministry of Health had obtained funds amounting to RM25 million for the use of fluoride in water supply for the next two years to improve the dental health of people.

With the RM25 million, the government should implement activities in the interior to create awareness among the children and parents about dental health such as distributing toothbrush and toothpaste.

Beside that, officers can be dispatched to the kindergartens and also school for talks or speeches about dental health, he said.

The implementation of fluoride usage in the water supply was supposed to be executed under the Tenth Malaysia Plan by next year.

According to Chiew, other organisations such as the Penang Consumer Association had also objected to the use if fluoride in the water supply.

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