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OpEdNews
January 26, 2009
By Sally Stride

Sixty-four years ago, on January 25, sodium fluoride was poured into Grand Rapids, Michigan's public water supply to prove that fluoridation reduces children's tooth decay. Five years into the experiment, things weren't going as expected. Cavities declined equally in the non-fluoridated control city of Muskegon, too. So, to blur the truth or prove their expectation, Muskegon was fluoridated also.

So what's happening today?

Fluoride Alert.Org
January 11, 2009

Editor's note: You don't have a right to choose what type of water to drink or use. The majority of drinking water in the U.S. is adulterated with fluoride. The dentists make the decision and lobby the state and local governments to add the chemical into your drinking water because they say it's good for your teeth. But just because they say fluoride is good for the teeth does not mean they have the right to force you to drink it. If fluoride is indeed good for the teeth, people can use supplements or whatever anytime. But why this chemical, which has been found to pose a health risk such as bone cancer in boys, should be added to in the public drinking water systems? Something fishy, but the answer is obvious.

Up until the 1990s, no research had ever been conducted to determine the impact of fluoride on the pineal gland - a small gland located between the two hemispheres of the brain that regulates the production of the hormone melatonin. Melatonin is a hormone that helps regulate the onset of puberty and helps protect the body from cell damage caused by free radicals.

Nancy J. Tock Sarnia
The Sarnia Observer
December 1, 2008

So, the fluoride debate is on again.

The government has come to the conclusion that fluoride levels in drinking water should be no more than 0.7 milligrams per litre. Mike Bradley says any decision "should be based on science and health. It should not be based on politics."

I agree.

I also think the public should have the "new" information. Much of the information is, in fact, not new.

The Danish scientist Kaj Eli Roholm wrote of the dangers of fluoride in the 1930s. Phyllis J. Mullenix, a prominent U. S. neurotoxicologist, warned of its toxicity in the early 1990s. Many other prominent minds worldwide have added their voice.

NewsWithViews.com

By Dr. James Howenstine, MD.
November 3, 2008

For several years the pharmaceutical firm has made aggressive efforts to market the Gardasil human papilloma virus vaccine as a prevention for cervical cancer. The governor of the state of Texas made the administration of this vaccine to young girls mandatory.

What is the truth about this vaccine?

Natural News reporter Mike Adams has uncovered some interesting facts about this vaccine. The FDA has been aware since 2003 that Human Papillloma Virus [1] does not cause cervical cancer. The Gardasil vaccine is unable to eradicate HPV virus from women who have been exposed to HPV(nearly all sexually active women). This makes vaccinating all young women in Texas against HPV virus a very questionable decision.

To make matters even worse it has now been learned that vaccinating women with Gardasil may actually increase the risk that those women harboring a benign cervical HPV viral infection have a 44.6 percent increased risk of having their benign HPV infection converted into a precancerous state by the HPV vaccine administration. Thus women vaccinated with Gardasil not only receive no benefit those who were sexually active before the vaccine administration have become at increased risk for developing cervical cancer.

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Sott.net
By Thomas Tharp
Lovely Country Citizen
July 2, 2008

I can't even believe that this is an issue again. Our gub-mint "protectors" are yet again trying to get our water supply fluoridated?

I hold in my hand a tube of Crest toothpaste and I quote from the warning on it: "KEEP OUT OF REACH OF CHILDREN UNDER 6 YEARS OF AGE. If more than used for brushing is ACCIDENTALLY SWALLOWED, get medical help or contact a POISON CONTROL CENTER right away. DO NOT SWALLOW."

Sheeple, that should be enough said right there.

OpEdNews
June 29, 2008
By Sally Stride

On June 19, 2008 the American Dental Association updated its website reporting that fluoride is a concern to all kidney patients, not just those on dialysis.

Along with false assurances of safety, fluoride chemicals are added to some public and bottled water in the unscientific belief it reduces cavities.

Fluoride-induced bone damage could occur in kidney patients who consume even "optimally" fluoridated water because malfunctioning kidneys do not properly sift fluoride from the blood and out of the body. Fluoride can build up in bones making them brittle and fracture

For this reason, the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) withdrew its fluoridation endorsement in October 2007, which they made public in a fluoride paper dated April 15, 2008 with advice that “individuals with CKD [Chronic Kidney Disease] should be notified of the potential risk of fluoride exposure.”

After the 2006 National Research Council's (NRC) fluoride toxicology report was brought to their attention, the NKF withdrew its fluoridation endorsement.

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pr-inside.com
May 19, 2008

There is clear evidence that small amounts of fluoride, at or near levels added to U.S. water supplies, present potential risks to the thyroid gland, according to the National Research Council's (NRC) first-ever published review of the fluoride/thyroid literature.(A)

Fluoride, in the form of silicofluorides, injected into 2/3 of U.S. public water supplies, ostensibly to reduce tooth decay, was never safety-tested.(B)

Comment: For an in-depth look at fluoride, see Flourine Compounds Make You Stupid.

"Many Americans are exposed to fluoride in the ranges associated with thyroid effects, especially for people with iodine deficiency," says Kathleen Thiessen, PhD, co-author of the government-sponsored NRC report. "The recent decline in iodine intake in the U.S could contribute to increased toxicity of fluoride for some individuals," says Thiessen.

"A low level of thyroid hormone can increase the risk of cardiac disease, high cholesterol, depression and, in pregnant woman, decreased intelligence of offspring," said Thiessen.(C)

Common thyroid symptoms include fatigue, weight gain, constipation, fuzzy thinking, low blood pressure, fluid retention, depression, body pain, slow reflexes, and more. It's estimated that 59 million Americans have thyroid conditions.(D)

Robert Carton, PhD, an environmental scientist who worked for over 30 years for the U.S. government including managing risk assessments on high priority toxic chemicals, says "fluoride has detrimental effects on the thyroid gland of healthy males at 3.5 mg a day. With iodine deficiency, the effect level drops to 0.7 milligrams/day for an average male."(E) (1.0 mg/L fluoride is in most water supplies).

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WorldNetDaily
May 5, 2008

Safety debate over public water treatments heats up with release of shocking new studies

Water treatment plant ©WorldNetDaily

WASHINGTON - From Pennsylvania to Nebraska and from Europe to New Zealand, there is growing and fierce opposition to plans to fluoridate public drinking water, fueled by a battery of shocking new studies that seriously question a practice routine among U.S. municipalities for nearly the last 50 years.

• In Clearfield, Pa., the municipal authority asked the state Department of Environmental Protection for permission to stop adding fluoride to its water. But before city officials got an answer, they got a lawsuit threat from the Pennsylvania Dental Association, which promised not only an injunction against any plans to stop adding the chemical to drinking supplies but litigation against the individual board members who approved the action. The city backed down and continues to fluoridate water.

Sott.net
April 22, 2008
OpenPR
New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc

Fluoride exposure is rising and causing children's tooth imperfections, ranging from white spots to brownish discolorations and pitting (fluorosis), dentist Elivir Dincer reports in the New York State Dental Journal. (1)

"Such changes in the tooth's appearance can affect the child's self-esteem which makes early prevention that much more critical," writes Dincer.

Children, aged 2 to 7 years, can swallow about one-quarter milligram of fluoride with every brushing because their swallowing reflexes are not fully developed, reports Dincer.

"Children from the age of 6-months to 3-years should not have more than one-quarter milligram of fluoride per day. Brushing the teeth of a 2-year-old twice a day will expose the child to about one-half milligram, exceeding the allowable [daily] limits" [from toothpaste alone], writes Dincer.

Intentionally swallowing the toothpaste which is likely, given the pleasant flavor of children's toothpaste, increases children's fluorosis risk, Dincer reports.

Fluoridated water, supplements, mouth rinses and/or foods add to daily fluoride intake.

Prison Planet

January 15, 2008

By Paul Joseph Watson

June 22, 2007

Millions upon millions of innocent people have been brainwashed by the aluminum companies to erroneously believe that adding sodium fluoride to our drinking water will reduce tooth decay in our children. Over 135 million Americans drink a daily dose of sodium fluoride in their water without thinking of it!

Fluorine, the gangster of the chemical underworld, made the atomic bomb possible. The only scientific way to free the necessary quantities of fissionable Uranium 235, buried in the inert mass of its parent U-238, is to force uranium hexafluoride gas through many acres of porous barriers. The next part of the process gradually concentrates the elements, creating a deadly hazard from radiation. "Hex" is what they named this vicious stuff.

Fluoride can kill. Prepare yourself for the tragic fable of the chemist, the water board, the dentist and his life.

By George Glasser
The Ecologist, September, 2000

Once, there was a dentist. His name was Lester. For many years, like all the other dentists he knew, Lester believed that fluoride in the drinking water was good for everyone. Like all the other dentists, Lester had learnt in dental school that fluoride reduces tooth decay. And, like all the other dentists, Lester believed that fluoride was fluoride.

Then, one day, he met a chemist and began discussing drinking water fluoridation.

The chemist asked what kind of fluoride was being used to fluoridate the drinking water. Lester replied: "We are simply adjusting the fluoride level in the water by adding one part per million of, well, just fluoride.

"There is no such thing as "just fluoride", said the chemist. Lester scratched his head. But they told me that it was only fluoride they are adding to the water.

The chemist laughed heartily. "Fluorine is the most reactive, electronegative element and it's never found alone in nature," he said. "There are many kinds of fluorides: for instance, calcium fluoride is found naturally in water. Then there are other fluorides such as lead fluoride, aluminium fluoride, etc. If you add fluoride to the water it has to be a compound. You can't just add fluoride to the water, so which one is it?"

Lester felt silly. He didn't know.

The next day Lester went to the library to check the chemistry books and learnt that calcium fluoride is, indeed, found naturally in the water. He also discovered that calcium fluoride is almost insoluble and could not be easily absorbed by the body. And his friend the chemist was quite right - there were innumerable fluoride compounds.

Now intrigued, Lester looked up some scientific studies about water fluoridation. He read that in laboratory tests, workers use a very pure grade of sodium fluoride and purified water to do their research. He discovered that sodium fluoride is taken up by the body much more readily than calcium fluoride. His friend was right. The dentist wondered how anyone could say that calcium fluoride is the same as sodium fluoride.

The next day, Lester called his water department to ask if they were adding sodium fluoride or calcium fluoride to his drinking water. The Water Department (WD) manager said that they were adding a product called silicofluorides to the water. The WD manager said they bought a very low grade product because it would be too expensive to use a good grade and, anyway, the public health people would not pay for a good quality calcium fluoride, because, they said, fluoride is fluoride, no matter where it comes from. By now, Lester was completely bewildered.

"Where do you buy these silicofluorides from?" he asked. The WD manager said that the silicofluorides known as hexafluorosilicic acid are the toxic waste product from phosphate fertilizer pollution scrubbers. The dentist was aghast. "You have to be crazy putting that stuff in the water!"

The water department manager agreed because, he said, the hexafluorsilicic acid also contains other toxic substances such as arsenic, beryllium, mercury, lead and many more. He said he didn't drink the city water because many of the contaminants in the fluoridation agent cause health problems. "For instance," he said, "arsenic causes prostate, bladder, kidney, skin and lung cancers and there is no safe level for arsenic."

Lester was appalled. He asked the manager why he did not stop fluoridating the water with this pollution scrubber liquor. "And why would anyone add any amount of a known carcinogen to the water?"

Shrugging, the manager replied, "I'm just doing my job. The public health people have their agenda, and I have a family to feed."

After a sleepless night, Lester contemplated the fluoridation dilemma as he soaped himself in the shower. "They say they are simply adjusting the level of natural fluoride in the water which is calcium fluoride, but they are using a pure grade of sodium fluoride and very pure water for the rat experiments in the laboratory. But they are adding toxic pollution scrubber liquor to my drinking water!" It didn't make sense.

He called a man at the dental association and told him what he had learnt. The man said, coldly: "If you value your licence to practise, don't ever mention this subject again!"

Lester was shocked.

He had worked hard and was very proud of his practice and his two classic cars. He couldn't bear to lose them. He thought about his wife and family and how they would miss their luxury home with its four bathrooms and a Jacuzzi, the private schools and foreign vacations. After a while he made a decision. "We won't drink the tap water. We'll buy bottled water." But he was not a happy man as he walked into the reception room and greeted his first patient of the day.

Several months later he visited his friend the doctor for his annual check-up and was stunned to learn that he had prostate cancer. He recalled the words of the water department manager. "Arsenic causes prostate cancer."

Lester was shattered. He couldn't understand it. Yet there was a reason. Despite taking care to drink only bottled water, Lester didn't know that much more of the pollution-laced tap water is absorbed through the skin from bathing and washing clothes.

Poor Lester.

Although 64 - 91 per cent of exposure to waterborne contaminants is known to occur via dermal absorption, no studies have ever been done to determine the toxicity of pollution scrubber liquor - the fluoride used in water fluoridation schemes.

George Glasser is an investigative journalist who focuses on environmental issues.Taken from The Ecologist, September 2000 Vol 30 No 6. ( www.theecologist.org )

12 December, 2006
For immediate release
Issued by:
The Alliance for Natural Health
The Dr. Rath Health Foundation
The National Health Federation
VOICE
MayDay

Five non-governmental organisations (NGOs), the Alliance for Natural Health, the Dr Rath Health Foundation, the National Health Federation, VOICE and MayDay, have formed a new alliance to challenge national and international regulations and guidelines that continue to allow the use of synthetic fluorides in infant formulas.

Baseline of Health Foundation
December 4, 2006
By Jon Barron

Well, it looks like Alzheimer's is set to become our next big medical terror. In the early 1900's it was infectious diseases. From 1950 to around 1975, it was heart disease; and then from the mid 70's to pretty much now, it's been cancer. But rising rapidly in our consciousness as it makes regular appearances on popular TV shows from Boston Legal to Grey's Anatomy, Alzheimer's looks ready to take its place as our new collective nightmare. So what is Alzheimer's? What do we know about it? What can we do about it?

Yahoo finance
November 13, 2006

NEW YORK, Nov. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- To prevent tooth damage, the American Dental Association (ADA) warned its members that fluoridated water should not be mixed into concentrated formula or foods intended for babies one year and younger, in a November 9th ADA e-mail alert.(1)

"But who will alert parents," asks lawyer Paul Beeber, President, New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation (NYSCOF).

Two-thirds of U.S. public water suppliers add fluoride chemicals, based on a disproved theory that fluoride ingestion prevents cavities. Bottled water with added fluoride is now sold with specific instructions to mix into formula.(2)

By Byron J. Richards, CCN
November 12, 2006
NewsWithViews.com

Last week Americans sent a warning shot into the oversized belly of the Republican Party. Unfortunately for President Bush, Americans turned out not to be the zombies he was counting on. This week Bush is trying to figure out why his public health goons forgot to double the fluoride content in the drinking water prior to the elections. Even Hitler knew this was the best way to make a population docile.

International Medical Veritas Association
June 6, 2006

Radiation at extremely low levels is a health hazard that medicine is not dealing with because it uses dangerous levels of radiation in both its diagnosis and treatment of disease. Radiation hazards have been grossly underestimated because they have to be. If they were not then both the medical industry and the atomic power industry would be vulnerable to staggering liabilities. Radiation is an invisible terror that works insidiously in the background so it is easy to hide its place in the deterioration of the publics' health. But slowly and steadily radiation hazards are destroying not only our health but that of our children and our children's children and many more generations to come. (This week the IMVA will publish about mercury in the air as a similar hazard. But coming next is Uranium Causes Cancer)

"Chernobyl" remains what it became 20 years ago, the name of a horror that doesn't show itself.

Serge Schmemann
NY Times

Fluoride, as added to the water supply in many locations, is an industrial byproduct, and a hazardous one at that. The mineral is highly toxic but is promoted as a great way to avoid tooth decay. Only, it does not do what its proponents say.

A recent Doctor Yourself newsletter has the lowdown citing scientific studies that show fluoride is not effective for what it's claimed to do. Wonder how long it will take health authorities to catch on to the scam - or is there some other reason why fluoride is so liberally added to our drinks and the water we use?

By John Heilprin, Associated Press Writer
December 20, 2005

WASHINGTON - Drinking water may have a lot more in it than just H20 and fluoride, according to an environmental group's analysis of records in 42 states.

A survey by the Environmental Working Group released on Tuesday found 141 unregulated chemicals and an additional 119 for which the Environmental Protection Agency has set health-based limits. Most common among the chemicals found were disinfection byproducts, nitrates, chloroform, barium, arsenic and copper.

The research-and-advocacy organization compiled findings from the states that agreed to provide data they collected from 1998 to 2003. That data comes from nearly 40,000 water utilities, serving 231 million people. The utilities were required by federal law to report that data to consumers.

By Dr Barry Durrant-Peatfield
MBBS LRCP MRCS
Medical Advisor to Thyroid UK
September 22, 2005

There is a daunting amount of research studies showing that the widely acclaimed benefits on fluoride dental health are more imagined than real. My main concern however, is the effect of sustained fluoride intake on general health. Again, there is a huge body of research literature on this subject, freely available and in the public domain.

But this body of work was not considered by the York Review when their remit was changed from "Studies of the effects of fluoride on health" to "Studies on the effects of fluoridated water on health."
It is clearly evident that it was not considered by the BMA (Britsh Medical Association), British Dental Association (BDA), BFS (British Fluoridation Society) and FPHM, (Faculty for Public Health and Medicine) since they all insist, as in the briefing paper to Members of Parliament - that fluoridation is safe and non-injurious to health.

The Symposium held in Chicago from 14 to 16 July 2005 was to celebrate 60 years of fluoridation of drinking water. VOICE of Irish Concern for the Environment, a European environmental and anti-fluoride activist organization, characterizes the insistence of US health authorities to add a toxic chemical waste product to the water supply in the name of "saving teeth of children" as a remnant of the "flat earth" view of medicine and health.

The water supply is fluoridated in Ireland, and together with the UK, where the authorities defend fluoridation , the Irish are the only Europeans that still continue to fluoridate their water. Other countries have abandoned the practice.

Fluoride Linked to Bone Cancer, Again - Evidence Suppressed
By Paul Beeber
Jul 5, 2005, 13:36

(original at foodconsumer.org) 
 
New York, July 1, 2005 -- Newly available research, out of Harvard University, links fluoride in tap water, at levels most Americans drink, to osteosarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer (1).

The Environmental Working Group (EWG), a highly-regarded Washington DC-based organization, urges that fluoride in tap water be declared a known or probable cancer cause (2), based on this and previous animal and human studies.

Fluoride water `causes cancer'
Bob Woffinden

* Scientists inhibited from publicising adverse findings
* Young boys affected
* No understanding as to why males are affected rather than females
* Fluoride alters bone structure, leading to cancer

FLUORIDE IN tap water can cause bone cancer in boys, a disturbing new study indicates, although there is no evidence of a link for girls. 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.

In the U.K., fluoride is added to tap water. About 10 per cent of the population, six million people, receive fluoridated water.

Fish on Prozac

By Jeff Dankert | Winona Daily News

LANESBORO, Minn. — Potential for human drugs polluting waterways and short circuiting aquatic biochemistry will be the topic of a speech Saturday night in Lanesboro.

Ira Adelman will present a lecture at Eagle Bluff Environmnetal Learning Center titled "Hormones in our water, fish on Prozac." Adelman is a University of Minnesota fisheries biology professor.

The topic may sound like comedy over dinner, but reflects a growing concern about trace chemicals from drugs and other medical compounds creating havoc with aquatic ecosystem functioning.

Prozac is an antidepressant drug manufactured by Eli Lilly Co.

Use of antidepressants by children debated after doctor's shooting

06:18 PM CDT on Monday, September 6, 2004

Source: Associated Press by kvue.com

HOUSTON — The case of a 10-year-old Houston-area boy accused of killing his father is fueling concern about children's use of antidepressants.

The boy's mother, Deborah Geisler, says a psychiatrist prescribed Prozac for her son in early August after he was diagnosed with depression and anxiety.

The "Teflon* Tactic": Deny, Deny, Deny

Source: http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/courses/geog100/Plastics-DenyDamage.htm

*Trademark for polytetrafluoroethylene, a substance used to provide a nonsticking coating on some cookware and industrial products

To keep their profitable chemicals on the market, corporations commonly deny, and deny time and again, that their products cause any harm.  With this Teflon™ tactic companies attempt to escape blame by metaphorically coating their "chemical-X" with a non-sticking shield to repel censure. 

This approach has been practiced not only by chemical companies, but also by tobacco companies, asbestos companies, drug companies, nuclear power companies and many other industries.

Fluoride: the pros, the cons, the court
By ROGER TALBOT
Sunday News Staff
Source: The Union Leader and New Hampshire Sunday News

With a Washington-based scientist visiting Manchester and the possibility of an appearance by a former surgeon general, the debate on water fluoridation could come to a boil this week as voters weigh their options and a judge hears a lawsuit that could affect a referendum scheduled for Sept. 14.

The government scientist is John William Hirzy, a chemist who works for the Environmental Protection Agency and is an outspoken opponent of fluoridation. The former surgeon general is C. Everett Koop, who has long been a proponent of adding fluoride to drinking water to reduce tooth decay.

Fluoride is added to Escondido water amid complaints
By Craig Gustafson
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
August 31, 2004
Source: SignOnSanDiego.com

ESCONDIDO – The city began adding fluoride to its water supply yesterday, and officials reported more than two dozen complaints since they announced their plans Thursday.

Meanwhile, two City Council members who oppose the plan said they would like to see the city track the much-publicized benefits of fluoride.

Workers at the city's water treatment plant began the process at noon, with nearby homes and businesses receiving fluoride-treated water shortly thereafter. It will take about 24 hours for the fluoridated water to flow through the entire system, which reaches about 75 percent of the city's 140,000 residents.

Lawyers in DuPont C8 trial get more time for depositions
September 02, 2004

By Ken Ward Jr.
Staff writer
Source: The Charleston Gazette

Trial has been delayed another month in a case in which thousands of Wood County residents allege DuPont Co. poisoned their drinking water.

Jury selection will start Oct. 12, with open arguments to begin on Oct. 25, according to an order from the Wood Circuit Court.

The trial had been scheduled to begin Sept. 20.

Despite Lawsuit Fluoride To Be Added To Escondido Water
Fluoride Opponents Question Safety
August 26, 2004
Source: TheSanDiegoChannel

ESCONDIDO, Calif. -- Fluoride will be added to the Escondido water supply beginning Monday, despite a lawsuit intended to prevent it.

Escondido would be the first city or water district in San Diego County to fluoridate its water under a 1996 state law requiring large suppliers to begin the process when funds are available.

Public health experts say fluoridation, used for decades in much of the country, has been proven safe and effective in preventing tooth decay.

BMJ  2004;329:307 (7 August), doi:10.1136/bmj.329.7461.307

Secret US report surfaces on antidepressants in children
Jeanne Lenzer
Source: British Medical Journal

New York

Internal memos and a secret government report about the negative effects of antidepressants in children—suppressed by the US Food and Drug Administration—have surfaced publicly.

The Alliance for Human Research Protection, a national network dedicated to ensuring ethical standards in medical research, published the documents on 26 July.

The published documents confirm earlier news accounts that a government expert with the FDA's Office of Drug Safety, Dr Andrew Mosholder, found that children taking antidepressants were twice as likely to become suicidal as children taking placebo. He reportedly urged the agency to follow the lead of British health authorities by warning doctors that the risks of the newer antidepressants, except fluoxetine (???, Ndr), might outweigh the benefits when used in children.

CSIR warns aginst fluoride in water
August 26, 2004
By Richard Davies
Source: Pretoria News

 SOUTH AFRICA - The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research warned yesterday about plans to add fluoride to South Africa's drinking water, saying it posed a possible health risk to people with HIV and Aids, as well as those suffering from malnutrition.

Briefing Parliament's water affairs portfolio committee, Bettina Genthe, a water analysis expert with Environmentek, a business unit of the CSIR, said recently enacted legislation prescribed the addition of fluoride to water to stop tooth decay.

However, while she recognised this was beneficial when it came to preventing dental caries, it was "not necessarily a good idea".

Boy's Murder Case Entangled in Fight Over Antidepressants
By BARRY MEIER
Published: August 23, 2004
Source: New York Times

Christopher Pittman said he remembered everything about that night in late 2001 when he killed his grandparents: the blood, the shotgun blasts, the voices urging him on, even the smoke detectors that screamed as he drove away from their rural South Carolina home after setting it on fire.

"Something kept telling me to do it," he later told a forensic psychiatrist.

Now, Christopher, who was 12 years old at the time of the killings, faces charges of first-degree murder. The decision by a local prosecutor to try him as an adult could send him to prison for life. While prosecutors portray him as a troubled killer, his defenders say the killings occurred for a reason beyond the boy's control - a reaction to the antidepressant Zoloft, a drug he had started taking for depression not long before the slayings.

Such defenses, which have been used before, have rarely succeeded. And most medical experts do not believe there is a link between antidepressants and acts of extreme violence.

But the Pittman case has attracted special attention because it is among the first to arise amid a national debate over the safety of antidepressant use in children and teenagers. Depression is a complex condition, and antidepressants like Zoloft have helped countless children and adults.

DuPont Defends Its Reporting on Teflon Ingredient

By Juliet Eilperin
Source: Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, August 13, 2004; Page A03

Chemical giant DuPont Co. told the Environmental Protection Agency yesterday that it fully complied with federal reporting rules on health and environmental risks associated with a key ingredient used in making Teflon.

The company's defense of its decision not to provide all the data it gathered over 20 years on perfluorooctanoic acid, a soaplike material used in making stick-resistant surfaces and materials for products, signals the start of legal wrangling between the nation's largest chemical maker and the administration. EPA announced last month that it is seeking millions in fines from DuPont, contending that the company failed to give the government information that has raised concerns about the compound, also known as C-8 or PFOA.

"We'll fight EPA on this issue," said Stacey J. Mobley, DuPont's general counsel. "We have and will continue to manage PFOA safely."

Teflon questions
August 16, 2004
Source: Boston.com

THERE IS no reason to throw out your Teflon pans, but the US Environmental Protection Agency last month opened a new chapter in society's love-hate relationship with miracle chemicals when it accused the Du Pont Co. of withholding evidence of the company's own concerns about a chemical used to make Teflon. In a response last week, Du Pont said it had met its reporting obligations and should not have to pay fines, which could reach $300 million.

The EPA has charged Du Pont with suppressing evidence that the chemical can move from a pregnant woman to her fetus and that it was found in the drinking water supply of a community near a Teflon manufacturing site in West Virginia. While the agency is right to pursue these charges against the company, it should give urgency to more investigations into the chemical's health risk to humans and into the mystery of how it has become so omnipresent in the environment.

Eliminate the use of Teflon
August 21, 2004
Source: Boston.com

I AGREE with the Aug. 16 editorial "Teflon Questions" that we shouldn't throw out our Teflon pans, and that we should send them back to Du Pont and let it deal with the disposal problems! Clearly, there is a problem when these man-made, resistant, persistent chemicals show up in our drinking water, our blood, and in such remote locations as the Arctic.

We should not wait any longer to eliminate the use of these chemicals when we already know enough, and safer alternatives exist that will do the job.

Fluoridation: No Benefit, another study shows
2004-08-19
Source: Joplin Indipendent

NEW YORK, Aug. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Dental examinations of 4800 South Australian ten- to fifteen-year-olds’ permanent teeth reveal unexpected results – similar cavity rates whether they drink fluoridated water or not, reports Armfield and Spencer in the August 2004 “Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology” (1).

Children sampled lived in fluoridated and nonfluoridated metropolitan and rural areas of the Australian state, South Australia. Collected rainwater, or tank water, is the main non-fluoridated (non-public) water source for 37% of South Australians, 8% drink bottled water. The public water supply is fluoridated in Adelaide, South Australia’s capital city. The rest of South Australia is predominantly non-fluoridated, the authors report. “The effect of consumption of nonpublic (non-fluoridated) water on permanent caries (cavities) experience was not significant,” report Armfield and Spencer.

How Dentists Manipulate Legislators to Win Fluoridation Battles
By Sally Stride
Aug 11, 2004, 13:46

"Real People Helping Real People"

Ignoring the democratic process and discouraging a healthy dialogue, California fluoridationists worked secretly, quickly and dishonestly to pass a 1995 California fluoridation law, according to “The Fluoride Victory,” published in the Journal of the California Dental Association.(1)

California Assemblywoman Jackie Speier, working with the California Dental Association (CDA), sponsored a fluoridation bill, eventually signed into law, forcing all California water companies, with 10,000 service connections, to add nonessential fluoride chemicals into the drinking water to prevent tooth decay, without constituent or local governing body approval, discussion or vote.

“To make the most of the element of surprise, it was decided that Speier would wait until the last possible moment to introduce her fluoridation bill,” writes author Joanne Boyd.

Conference highlights fluoride health risks

From Fluoride Action Network
Thursday, August 05, 2004
Source: Enn Enviromental Network News

New research indicates that fluoride damages the brain; that the chemicals used to fluoridate drinking water increase the levels of lead in children's blood; that some humans are accumulating dangerous levels of fluoride in their blood and bone; that fluoride's toxicity in humans is not confined to teeth and bone; and that - according to senior Environmental Protection Agency scientists - the EPA's safe drinking water standards for fluoride are a fraud.

These, and other findings, were presented by scientists and researchers at the First Citizens' Conference on Fluoride, held on the campus of St. Lawrence University in Canton NY and at the Mohawk Longhouse at Akwesasne near Massena NY, from July 30 to August 3. People from 17 states in the US and two provinces in Canada attended the 3-day Conference.

The conference, organized by Fluoride Action Network, also featured presentations on the history and impact of fluoride air pollution on the environment.

Is the force-feeding of fluoride really necessary?

By BRIAN CARLSTROM
Special to the News
Source: Hoodrivernews
August 3

The City Council is considering adding a known poison to our drinking water supply. The argument for adding fluoride is to force kids to ingest it, as they claim that it may help prevent dental cavities. There are some major flaws with this argument:

1. Most fluoride put into municipal water systems is a waste product from the manufacture/processing of iron, steel, aluminum, copper, lead, zinc, uranium, and fertilizer. The companies who end up with the “hot potato” known as fluoride have convinced many people that their trash is another’s treasure. Well, we should be suspicious. It is one of the most toxic waste products around. In the Fifth edition (1984) of Toxicology of Commercial Products, Fluoride is rated “4” (very toxic). For comparison, Lead is rated a “3-4” (moderately toxic). In their effort to convince people of fluoride’s benefits, the aluminum industry paid for a study to determine that it was “good for us.” Before this study, fluoride’s primary uses was for insecticide and rat poison.

2. The FDA has never approved fluoride for human consumption. For more information on this, check out:
http://www.toothwisdom.net/f.absence_of_fda.html
Japan and continental Europe have banned its use for human consumption, citing health concerns and medical ethics.

Fluoride is hurting us, investigator says

Sunday, August 22, 2004
Steve Weinberg
Special to The Plain Dealer

In "The Fluoride Deception," free- lance investigative reporter Christo pher Bryson attempts to prove that fluoride added to community water supplies and products such as toothpaste harms teeth and other portions of the body in many, perhaps most, consumers.

Fluoride-related chemicals occurring in nature have crippled and killed factory and laboratory workers, Bryson writes, including those helping produce nuclear weapons during World War II.

Prozac 'found in drinking water'
Source: BBC News

Many people choose Prozac over other antidepressants
Traces of the antidepressant Prozac can be found in the nation's drinking water, it has been revealed.

An Environment Agency report suggests so many people are taking the drug nowadays it is building up in rivers and groundwater.

A report in Sunday's Observer says the government's environment watchdog has discussed the impact for human health.

A spokesman for the Drinking Water Inspectorate (DWI) said the Prozac found was most likely highly diluted.

Depressed over Prozac
Antidepressants dangerous and should be banned, crusader says

By Elaine Jarvik
Source: Deseret Morning News

      Ann Tracy knows hundreds of grisly stories: the professor on Prozac who bit her mother to death; the Stanford graduate on Paxil who stabbed herself in the kitchen while her parents slept; the mother who bludgeoned her son and then drank a can of Drano; the 12-year-old girl who strangled herself with a bungee cord she attached to a plant hanger on the wall.

      Sit with Tracy for an hour and pretty soon your head is swimming in details: the shooting at Columbine, a study of violent mice, the conversation she had with Rusty Yates, whose wife drowned their five children in a bathtub. Andrea Yates was on maximum doses of Effexor and Remeron, she reminds you. The world according to Ann Tracy is a place full of people who were put on antidepressants and then went on to do horrible things.
      Tracy is executive director of the International Coalition for Drug Awareness, which she operates out of her home office in West Jordan, a home she has mortgaged twice to pay for her 15-year crusade against antidepressants and the pharmaceutical companies who make them.
      She is heartened by recent scrutiny of the drugs. Last year, the British version of the FDA banned all antidepressants other than Prozac for use in children under 18. In March, the Food and Drug Administration issued a Public Health Advisory about antidepressants — urging doctors and families to monitor adult and child patients on the drugs — and then appointed a panel of experts to reanalyze the incidence of suicide attempts during clinical trials of teens. In June, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer sued the makers of Paxil for consumer fraud, and 30 Utahns joined a nationwide class-action suit charging that GlaxoSmithKline "concealed, suppressed and downplayed" severe withdrawal reactions in people trying to go off the antidepressant.
      But Tracy won't be happy until the drugs are banned altogether. They cause people to become violently suicidal and homicidal, she argues. They cause cancer, she says, and heart disease and diabetes and divorce.
      Some people call her a visionary. Others roll their eyes and call her misinformed — and worry that she is hurting the very people she wants to help.

Popular Prozac rival linked to 118 British deaths
21/08/2004 - 09:56:32
Source: Ireland On Line

An anti-depressant prescribed almost 200,000 times a year to Irish patients has been directly linked to 118 deaths in the UK.

The drug is sold here under the name Efexor.

Letter
Residents need to be informed about fluoride
07/28/2004
Source: Buffalo Reflex

Dear Editor,

Buffalo residents must answer the fluoride issue. It isn't going away by itself. If you have Internet, here are some sites to help your research and help you cast an informed vote.

From http://emporium.turnpike.net: "Fluoride in any fSend to Jimorm - drops, tablets or vitamins - has never been approved by the Food and Drug Administration..." "The alarming discovery that fluoride has never been approved as a prescription drug was announced by New Jersey State Assemblyman John V. Kelly in 1993...When the Honorable Mr. Kelly asked the FDA for the records of tests used to verify the safety of fluoride, the FDA initially refused to comply...Later, under the freedom of Information Act the FDA was required to turn over the required documents, and again they did not comply...Eventually they had to return to the court to explain themselves, they revealed that there is no drug application for fluoride approval and none has ever been submitted."

Summary of Teflon-Related TSCA 8(e) Action Against DuPont

EPA finds DuPont guilty of withholding Teflon blood and water pollution studies
Company faces fines of up to $313 million
Source: Enviromental Working Group

JULY 15, 2004 — In an extraordinary announcement on July 8, 2004, the Environmental Protection Agency revealed the results of a year-long investigation into DuPont's failure to disclose to the agency internal company studies showing pollution of human fetal cord blood and local tap water with a toxic Teflon ingredient, known as C8 or PFOA. Acting on a petition filed by the Environmental Working Group, the Agency found that DuPont engaged in unlawful behavior on three separate counts of hiding critical study results in company file cabinets for up to 20 years.

QUICK LINKS
- EPA findings against DuPont
- The law that DuPont violated: TSCA 8(e)

EPA's legal action is all the more extraordinary when the scathing, no-holds-barred language of the agency's complaint is contrasted with the unwillingness of politically appointed agency higher-ups to announce a potential fine amount against the company. The amount, apparently, will be calculated at a later date, after the Agency begins "negotiations" with the company to determine the outlines of a possible out of court settlement.

Listen to voters: Don’t fluoridate Watsonville water
By JUDY DOERING-NIELSEN
Source: Santa Cruz Sentinell
July 25, 2004

I’m disappointed by the court’s decision to ignore the vote of the people of Watsonville, and deeply concerned that one person can override the mandate of the residents of this city who circulated a petition, got the issue on the ballot and voted to not fluoridate the water system.

Having said this, I respect the right of experts as well as non-experts to believe or protest putting an additive into the Watsonville public water system. It is irrelevant whether a measure is won by a single vote or thousands of votes. The democratic process must stand and the voice of the people should not be ignored.

Food, Not Fluoride, Reduces Cavities
From New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation
Tuesday, February 03, 2004
Source: ENN - Enviromental News Network

New York - February 2004 - Cavities occur in sixty-percent of U.S. preschool children, and more often in the poorly nourished, according to the January 2004 Journal of the American Dental Association(1). Federal statistics indicate poor health is closely associated to bad teeth regardless of fluoridation levels.

About 2/3 of Americans drink fluoridated water. But those skipping breakfast and fruits and vegetables still have more cavities, according to researchers, Dye et al.

Sixty percent of Northern Ireland prechoolers have tooth decay also and they aren't served fluoridated water.(1a) Food, not fluoride, reduces cavities.

Court deals setback to fluoride fighters

Watsonville told anti-fluoride law won’t hold water
By DONNA JONES
Sentinel staff writer

WATSONVILLE — In what was widely seen as a test case, a judge ruled Tuesday that state law trumps an anti-fluoridation ordinance passed by city voters in 2002.

Santa Cruz County Superior Court Judge Robert Atack’s ruling clears the way for the chemical to be added to the city’s drinking water, though legal hurdles may still arise to stall or stop implementation.

"The handwriting is on the wall," said Christopher Krueger, deputy state attorney general. "It has vast implications for other cities that might try these types of ordinances. It’s not going to work."

Fluoride backers, who contend the chemical helps prevent tooth decay, hailed the decision.

Pills not best remedy for depression
Monday, July 12, 2004
ELEANOR GODWIN
GUEST COLUMNIST
Source: Seattlepi.com

In 2000, 38 million prescriptions for antidepressants were written worldwide. Usage continues to skyrocket. Although selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), including Prozac, Zoloft and Paxil, comprise the third most prescribed class of medication, major depressive disorder is still the second greatest cause of disability in developed countries.

Because such a large proportion of mankind is taking SSRIs, we should be asking many questions about them. A study in Iceland found that psychiatric hospitalizations increased by 4 percent and suicide trends were unchanged, despite 16 percent annual increases in SSRI usage for a 12-year period. The New York state attorney general is suing the manufacturer of Paxil for withholding evidence of increased suicidal behavior in children.

Tap water can make you FAT, say experts
Jul 11 2004
By Caroline Wheeler, Sunday Mercury
Source: Ic Birmingham.co.uk
 
Medical experts claim that West Midlands tap water can make people FAT and could be fuelling rising obesity levels.

For the past 40 years, fluoride has been pumped into the region's tap water to help keep teeth healthy.

But now a top doctor claims that the toxin can cause worrying health side-effects including hypothyroidism, a medical dis-order affecting the thyroid gland which controls weight gain.

And he believes that children may be particularly susceptible to obesity if their mums drank fluoridated water while pregnant.

Last year, the West Midlands topped the UK 'fat list' with a shocking 22.5 per cent of its population classed clinically obese.

Chemists criticize fluoridation plan

Pinellas leaders come under fire, but stand by their decision to add the chemical to the county's water.
By MICHAEL SANDLER, Times Staff Writer
Published July 9, 2004
Source: San Petersburg Online

CLEARWATER - They demanded a debate. They settled for a rally.

Nearly 150 people turned out at the Harborview Center in downtown Clearwater on Thursday to hear chemistry experts who oppose fluoridation assail Pinellas County's recent decision to add fluoride to the bulk of the area's water supply.

The tenor at the "Great Fluoride Debate" was grim. Paul Connett, a professor of chemistry at St. Lawrence University, and William Hirzy, a chemist and union representative with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, took turns challenging information presented by county officials, the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention and other organizations that promote the benefits of fluoride.

Just let me get my teeth into those fluoride fans

Carmen Reid
Sun 4 Jul 2004
Source; Scotland on Sunday

APOLOGIES for being so Texan, but the word ‘fluoride’ makes me want to reach for my metaphorical gun.

Call me a Luddite, but the idea of taking a relatively pure, essential resource - water - and then pumping it full of a waste product from the aluminium industry - fluoride - in the name of dental health, it just doesn’t sit well with me. Or lots of other people, which is why the Scottish Executive has decided it won’t be making the decision to mass ‘medicate’ us - it will hand this over to our health boards: those unelected bodies so well known for passing unpopular hospital closure decisions in the face of mass opposition.

There are too many doubts about fluoride. It’s carcinogenic - in what doses, we’re not too sure. It’s certainly linked to brittle bones. People in fluoridated areas have less fillings, but in later life, more broken bones and hip fractures. And then there’s fluoridisis. The mottling, caused by over-exposure to fluoride, which spoils teeth for life.

Infant Fluoride Intake Risky And Unnecessary
Originally Published: 2004-04-01
Source: HealthWorld Online

Infant formulas prepared with fluoridated water increase dental fluorosis risk, according to the April 2004 Journal of the American College of Nutrition and other studies. To prevent this tooth staining, researchers caution against mixing infant formulas with fluoridated water.

Fluorosis, white-spotted, yellow or brown stained, sometimes pitted or crumbly teeth, is the too-late warning sign that babies overdosed on fluoride. Neither a nutrient nor essential to health, fluoride can also damage bones.

Fluoride anger in council
Wednesday, 23 June 2004
Souce: Port Macquarie

A PUSH for further information about the potential adverse impact of adding fluoride to drinking water was defeated at Monday's Hastings Council.

Cr Lisa Intemann raised the notice of motion that as a matter of urgency, a report be brought back to the council on the potential adverse effect of adding fluoride to drinking water supplies, on the long-term efficiency and effectiveness of the council's sewerage treatment systems.

The report was also to cover the status of fluoride as a water pollutant in the general environment.

Health News, India: Fluoride in water takes its toll in Assam (FEATURE)
23-June-2004
Source: Kerala News

Guwahati, It is colourless, odourless and is wreaking havoc on hundreds of thousands of people in Assam.

Like 46-year-old Gita Deb of Tekelangjun village in Karbi Anglong district for whom life is an endless odyssey of pain. She's been bedridden for seven years, wracked by perennial body pain after she contracted skeletal fluorosis, a water-borne disease caused by excess fluoride in drinking water.

Her son, a Class 6 student, is already showing signs of dental fluorosis, reports Grassroots Feature Network.

Gita's husband has been left to look after his ailing family, helpless in the face of the painful disease that creeps in through drinking water.

Fluoridated Water & Infant Formula

 FAN Science-Watch
May 6, 2004

Bulletin #9: Fluoridated Water & Infant Formula

by Michael Connett
Editor, FAN Science-Watch
Source: Fluoride Alert Network

The use of fluoridated water in infant formula is in the news.

Yesterday, Reuters published an article on a study from the Journal of the American College of Nutrition which found that consumption of beverages (particularly infant formulas reconstituted with fluoridated water) is associated with an increase of dental fluorosis in a baby’s primary teeth.

Reuters’ article comes on the heels of a press release issued by the New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation (NYSCOF) addressing the same study.

While the authors of the study do not overtly challenge fluoridation policy, they do tip-toe into interesting terrain: namely, the potential need to restrict the use of fluoridated water in infant formula.

To quote:

“Our results suggest that the fluoride contribution of water used to reconstitute formulas increases risk of fluorosis and could be an area for intervention.”

“Supporting long-term lactation could be an important strategy to decrease fluorosis risk of primary teeth and early developing permanent teeth.”

“Fluoride concentrations of both human milk (0.005–0.010 ppm) and cows’ milk (0.03–0.06 ppm) are low, and consumption of either human milk or cows’ milk could decrease fluorosis risk.”

First Citizen's Conference on Fluoride
Source: Enviromental News Network

From Fluoride Action Network
June 16, 2004

FIRST CITIZEN'S CONFERENCE ON FLUORIDE
(July 30-August 2, 2004)

Co-sponsored by:
FLUORIDE ACTION NETWORK
and
HAUDENOSAUNEE ENVIRONMENTAL TASK FORCE
(Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, Tuscarora)

The First Citizens' Conference on Fluoride will be held at St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York, and at the Mohawk Nation Longhouse at Akwesasne, near Massena NY.

The conference has been convened to enable citizens, environmentalists, and those working in the public health and regulatory sectors to learn firsthand about the toxicity of fluoride and its adverse effects on humans and the environment. Presentations by scientists and researchers will be targeted to a citizen audience.

Concerns about fluoride's toxicity are heightened by results from numerous published studies in the last 8 years reporting serious effects from fluoride exposure, including adverse effects on: the brain, bone, male reproductive system, kidney, liver, lung, thyroid, and G-proteins (an important mechanism that controls critical intracellular communication).

NBC 5 Investigation Prompts National Health Alert

Experts Say Fluoride Levels Could Cause Sickness
POSTED: 3:59 pm CDT June 11, 2004
Source: nbc5i.com

DALLAS -- Health officials have posted a nationwide alert in response to an NBC 5 investigation that found imported toothpaste at North Texas dollar discount stores.

ORIGINAL REPORT: Bargain Toothpastes Pose Hazard

NBC 5 reporter Ken Kalthoff first broke this story in May, when he found several tubes of foreign toothpaste at eight different dollar discount stores around North Texas.

Initial Report: Some Dollar-Store Bargains Could Prove Costly

Shopping undercover, our NBC 5 crew found that most of the packages look a lot like regular American brands. In fact, customers at the stores told us they would never have noticed the tiny print that indicated the products were really made in places like South Africa.

Safe Water bites back
Friday, 11 June 2004
Source: News Port Macquarie

THE Hastings Safe Water Association is pushing for Hastings Council to reverse its decision to refer fluoridation to the NSW Government.

Publicity officer Don Mackay believes the council should honour the 1991 poll or put the issue to people through another poll.

"It wasn't the people who raised putting fluoride in (the water), it was the health bureaucrats," he said.

Mr Mackay stands firm on the need for more dental therapists and education about good dental hygiene.

"It's the education of the kids, what they eat and the cleaning of their teeth that's important."

A kick in the teeth
It was hailed as a harmless chemical that would prevent tooth decay. But a new book claims that fluoride could be linked to serious health problems.

Bob Woffinden
Tuesday June 8, 2004
Source: The Guardian

A 50-year-old medical controversy is about to be re-ignited. The government is considering the introduction of further fluoridation schemes throughout the country. To facilitate that, the Water Act passed last November indemnified water companies from civil or criminal actions as a result of adding fluoride to public water supplies.

Fluoridation was first advanced in the United States at the end of the second world war. Proponents argued that fluoride in water and toothpaste would help to protect teeth and prevent decay. It was a time of scientific evangelism, when chemicals meant progress and the public trusted them to bring about a safer, cleaner future.

Throughout the 1950s and 60s, fluoride was added to public water supplies not just across the US but also in Britain. The areas now served by the Severn Trent, Northumbrian and Anglian water companies are fluoridated, mainly those in the West Midlands and Tyneside - about 10% of the UK population. Much of the Republic of Ireland has been fluoridated since 1964.

Health officials to discuss fluoridation of water
08 June 2004
Source: Stuff

Health officials are poised to take a major step to fluoridate Northland's water supplies.

At its monthly meeting today the Northland District Health Board (DHB) is to discuss a submission from its oral health promotion worker Sunitha Gowda that the DHB adopt a position statement on fluoridation.

The DHB's oral health team within its Community, Dental and Public Health Services has worked for some time on developing a fluoridation position statement for the organisation.

Modern Foods, New Epidemic
The Nation (Nairobi)

June 7, 2004
Posted to the web June 7, 2004 Source: allAfrica.com

Jeff Otieno
Nairobi

Dental problems will increase sharply in Kenya in the next decade due drastic changes in diet, the dental association has warned.

Research done by the umbrella dentists body has discovered that the complaints, also referred to as oral health problems, are the result of an increased consumption of sugary foods and drinks.

Consumption of sugar in recent years has risen threefold as Western foods, which are full of refined sugars, replace the otherwise nutritious traditional dishes.

Leading the pack is tooth decay, which affects people as young as three years in both the rural and the urban areas.

New Report Bolsters Fluoride-Cancer Link
by Michael Connett
May 20, 2004

The evidence that fluoride may cause cancer has just become substantially stronger.

In the May 19th issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, a 12-year follow-up study of workers in the cryolite industry confirms earlier reports of a link between occupational fluoride exposure and bladder & lung cancer.

In the May 19th paper, the authors - Dr. Philippe Grandjean & Jorgen Olsen – report:

“We previously reported the cancer morbidity from 1943 through 1987 for 422 male cryolite workers employed for more than 6 months at the mill from 1924 through 1961. We observed excess incidences of primary cancer of the lungs and of urinary bladder tumors (including bladder papilloma)... We have now extended the follow-up of this cohort by 12 years, at the end of which the total percentage of cohort members who had died exceeded 90%. These findings amplify our previous observation of increased bladder cancer rates among cryolite workers... We therefore believe that fluoride should be considered a possible cause of bladder cancer and a contributory cause of primary lung cancer.”

This study is extremely important for a number of reasons.

Fluoride - an unproven drug at uncontrolled dosage - Greens
Thursday, May 20
Source: Politics.ie

Commenting on the current levels of fluoridation in Irish drinking water and the fact that Ireland is the only country in Europe with a mandatory fluoridation policy. Cllr. Mary White, Green Party Deputy Leader and European Candidate for the East, said today that, "If doctors were able to prescribe to patients a medially active, unproven drug at an uncontrolled dosage without measuring side effects we would think that the medical system had gone mad. However, through water fluoridation, that is exactly what is happening to us here in Ireland."

Fluoride fallout: Council recommends fluoridated water issue for ballot initiative
By Meghan Vogel The Times-Standard
June 03, 2004
Source: Times-standard.com

ARCATA -- It's too big of an issue for just five people to decide.

That was the consensus of the Arcata City Council after a nearly three-hour discussion on the city's almost 50-year-old Fluoride Program. The council had been asked to review, discuss and possibly repeal the program, which has added fluoride to the city's water since 1956.

After hearing testimony from about 30 people on both sides of the issue -- those opposed to fluoridated water and those for it -- the councilmembers unanimously decided the issue should be left for the people to decide. The council recommended those concerned about the fluoride in the city's water come up with a ballot initiative, which could be voted on in November.

VOICE of Irish Concern for the Environment
7, Upper Camden St, Dublin 2
email : avoice@iol.ie http://www.voice.buz.org

Press Release

Dublin May 12th 2004.

Aluminium in drinking water again exposes Health Minister's unanswered questions on fluoridation.

Among the '50 Reasons to Oppose Fluoridation' that were presented by US Professor Paul Connett to Health Minister Martin over three years ago, are several relating to the increased toxicity of aluminium when combined with fluoride in drinking water. " I was promised answers to these concerns when I testified to Micheal Martin's Fluoridation Forum in October 2000 but have still received nothing. I am now extremely concerned at the ongoing health risks not just to bone but also to the central nervous system and cell messaging in Irish people. "said Dr Connett.

Fluoride: the debate goes on
Two Calgary experts challenge conventional wisdoms of fluoridated water

James Beck and Robert Dickson
For the Calgary Herald
May 1, 2004

Consider this. If we as physicians were to prescribe to patients we know nothing about, a medically active, unproven drug at uncontrolled dosage and tell them to take as much as they want for the rest of their lives while not monitoring the side effects, how long would we be practising medicine before our licences were revoked? The answer, of course, is not for very long.

Too Much Fluoride May Harm Babies' Teeth
Wed 5 May, 2004 19:59

By Merritt McKinney
Source: Reuters.co.uk

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Fluoride in water has helped prevent millions of cavities, but the results of a new study suggest that infants who drink large amounts of beverages that contain fluoride may be at risk for discoloration of their primary teeth.

In particular, infants who drank the most water-based beverages, particularly infant formulas made with water, were more likely to develop a condition called dental fluorosis when they were older.

No right to impose fluoride on us
Source: The Border Mail
April 21, 2004

I FELT moved to send the following short submission to the Deniliquin council, based on our interesting experience with water fluoridation in Geelong.

The State Government proposed fluoridation for Geelong early in 2002.

A community group, BAFF, brought international toxicologists to Geelong and ran public seminars in July, 2002, and June last year.

Ballina council rejects fluoride
Last Update: Thursday, March 25, 2004. 8:27am (AEDT)
Source: ABC News

After almost 40 years of providing fluoride to the shire's residents northern NSW's Ballina council is recommending that it scrap the service.

Since 1965 the council has offered fluoride in one form or another.

But new legislation now classifies fluoride as a poison.

Behavioral Effects of Fluorides On Mass Populations
by Valdamar Valerian February 3, 1997

Note: Numbers in brackets [ ] denote end note references.

Much research on the effects of fluorides on human physiology was done by the Mellon Institute, under contract with major corporations that produce fluoride. Because of the policies of Mellon, which does not allow the decades of research to be accessed by the public except with express permission of those companies who contract with it, the data is not available to the public. However, there are literally thousands of scientific studies which list physiological effects of fluorides. There are no credible scientific studies which demonstrate that fluorides are safe to ingest. Studies which are paid for by parties who manufacture fluorides, products containing fluorides or have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo are invalid because of a conflict of interest. You cannot trust the fox to guard the henhouse.

Honululu Outlaws Fluoride

Council Bills and Resolutions Text

CITY COUNCIL
CITY AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU
HONOLULU, HAWAII

ORDINANCE ______________

BILL 66 (2003)

A BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE

RELATING TO WATER.

BE IT ORDAINED by the People of the City and County of Honolulu:

    SECTION 1. Since ancient times, Hawaiians have treasured water as the spiritual fount of all life and as a precious resource that must be preserved for the benefit of all. The council finds that Oahu’s drinking water is a vital necessity of life and should be maintained free of any chemical additives, except those necessary to make it safe and potable for human consumption. Drinking water should not be used as a means for delivery of chemicals for medical or dental purposes when other alternatives are available. The purpose of this ordinance is to prohibit the introduction of unnecessary chemical additives, considered to be medication, into Oahu’s drinking water supply.

GOVERNMENT APPROVED CITIZENS AS TOXIC WASTE SITES !
ARE WE BEING POISONED?
By The Winds Org. and Kathy Wills

"Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened."
-Winston Churchill-

If your not Royally ticked off after you read this article ...... then what we are all being exposed to is working! But why! Why are we being poisoned? Is the human potential so great that we have to be covertly controlled? What right do the governments of this world have to do this to us. What might we accomplish if we didn't have these hidden poisons in most products on the market.

Its time to take a stand and shout,
WE'RE MAD AS HELL AND WE AREN'T TAKING THIS ANY MORE!!!
Over the past 50 years we have slowly been exposed to and consumed hazardous waste and we're paying them to do it to us!

We deserve to live a healthly life. I personally am not going to give away my will or my health to anyone.

How do you feel about this??? Have you had enough? Let me know your thoughts after you have read this...... Kathy Wills mailto:Kathy@xpeditionsmagazine.com

It has been a long established joke about not drinking the water in Third World countries. Now it is here in America that the water has been declared unsafe to drink, and it is no joke. Whereas the greatest problem with water in the underdeveloped nations is usually such as amoebic dysentery, serious but reversible, in the U.S. it is rat poison one gets in the drinking water--and it is no accident!

Toxic Secrets: Fluoride & The A-BombProgram

Feb 27, 2004
Author: Joel Griffiths and Chris Bryson
Source: Nexus Magazine

Some 50 years after United States authorities began adding fluoride to public water supplies to reduce cavities in children's teeth, recently discovered declassified government documents are shedding new light on the roots of that still-controversial public health measure, revealing a surprising connection between the use of fluoride and the dawning of the nuclear age.

DuPont's troubled chemical
C-8 is widespread in the environment. How did it get there, and should we be worried?

By FRED BIDDLE and JENNIFER GOLDBLATT
Staff reporters
11/23/2003

A little-known manmade chemical is found in the tissue of living things around the globe.

It is in the flesh of dolphins and cormorants off the Italian coast.

It is in 5 percent of the bread, green beans and ground beef sampled in supermarkets in southern states.

It is in the blood of up to 96 percent of people in the United States, a study suggests.

The chemical is known as C-8.

C-8 is used to make the DuPont Co.'s Teflon that coats cookware. It is also released in the decomposition of fluorinated telomers, a chemical used to make some fast-food wrappers resistant to grease. Teflon and telomers are part of a family of fluorinated compounds pioneered and dominated by DuPont.

Scientists know of no other sources of C-8.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency wants to know how C-8 enters the environment and whether it's harmful. Recent evidence that C-8 exists in the blood of most people led the agency to question whether the public health was adequately protected.

Much remains to be discovered about how C-8 gets into humans and whether it is harmful.

The News Journal interviewed dozens of experts and reviewed more than 100 scientific papers to understand what is known about the source and the health effects of C-8, also known as PFOA, the initials of its chemical name, Perfluorooctanoic Acid.

DuPont has said it does not know why the chemical has become so pervasive, acknowledging C-8 has been found in the blood of the general population at a level five times the maximum the company strives to achieve in the air and water around its factories where C-8 is made or used. DuPont said, however, the C-8 levels pose no threat.

"In more than 50 years of use by DuPont and others, there have been no known adverse human health effects associated with PFOA," Dr. Uma Chowdhry, DuPont's global vice president for central research and development, testified to the EPA in June.

The chemical causes cancer and birth defects in lab rats. But DuPont and others that have made or used C-8 say it is harmless to people. That assurance is based on decades of C-8 use with no evidence of ill effects, they said.

The Fumes from non-stick frying pans lined with fluorine compounds such as Teflon, can be deadly to birds. We don't understand such warning signs very well, although Canaries have historically been used to warn miners of deadly gases in the 'underworld'.

Fluoride in frying pans, fluoride in the drinking water, fluoride in toothpase, fluoride in a large selection of pharmaceutical drugs. Would anyone care to explain why we are putting ourselves at high risk of poisoning by fluoride?

Here is the recent BBC News article on frying pans and canaries.

As the Bush administration is being exposed by many of the nation's top scientists for bending science to political ends, here is a concrete example from the UK: Science on the health effects of fluoride added to drinking water is being misquoted in an attempt to impose fluoridation on some areas in the UK. Accused are the British Dental Association, the British Medical Association, the National Alliance for Equity in Dental Health and the British Fluoridation Society. The accuser is none other than Prof. T.A. Sheldon of York University, the scientific body that undertook a thorough review of the scientific studies available on fluoridation and its effects.

Here is Sheldon's statement, publishedas part of a letter to the editor in the Lymington Times on 14 February 2004: