Guest guest Posted February 21, 2004 Report Share Posted February 21, 2004 Sorry for the length of this --but since it's a compilation I put together--there's no URL. ***** The flouride assault on humanity and the planet has been part of the AGENDA for over fifty years. Not only that but we have been conditioned to believe that it's GOOD FOR US! What is described in this brief investigation is enough to show why so many people world wide are so shockingly afflicted--- physically, mentally and spiritually by this mass poisoning that has been going on for more than half a century--and proposed to be expanded even further. ****************************************************************************************************** Top Secret Meeting" of the Manhattan Project was about flouride toxicity----to figure out how much of the waste from nuclear bombs they could dump by recycling it through the population. http://www.fluoridealert.org/1944-conference.htm Toxic Secrets--Flouride And The A-Bomb Project http://www.nexusmagazine.com/fluoridebomb.html *************** " In the 1930's, Hitler and the German Nazi's envisioned a world to be dominated and controlled by a Nazi philosophy of pan-Germanism. The German chemists worked out a very ingenious and far-reaching plan of mass-control which was submitted to and adopted by the German General Staff. This plan was to control the population in any given area through mass medication of drinking water supplies. By this method they could control the population in whole areas, reduce population by water medication that would produce sterility in women, and so on. In this scheme of mass-control, sodium fluoride occupied a prominent place ." - Charles Perkins"I was told of this entire scheme by a German chemist who was an official of the great IG Farben chemical industries and was also prominent in the Nazi movement at the time. I say this with all the earnestness and sincerity of a scientist who has spent nearly 20 years` research into the chemistry, biochemistry, physiology and pathology of fluorine--any person who drinks artificially fluorinated water for a period of one year or more will never again be the same person mentally or physically." Charles Perkins Charles Eliot Perkins, was a research worker in chemistry, biochemistry, physiology and pathology, sent by the US to take charge of the vast Farben chemical plants in Germany at the end of the WW II. ********************* Quoting Eintsein’s nephew, Dr. E.H. Bronner ( a chemist who had also been a prisoner of war during WWII) in a letter printed in The Catholic Mirror, Springfield, MA, January 1952: "It appears that the citizens of Massachusetts are among the ‘next’ on the agenda of the water poisoners. There is a sinister network of subversive agents, Godless ‘intellectual’ parasites, working in our country today whose ramifications grow more extensive, more successful and more alarming each new year and whose true objective is to demoralize, paralyze and destroy our great Republic – from within if they can, according to their plan – for their own possession. The tragic success they have already attained in their long siege to destroy the moral fiber of American life is now one of their most potent footholds towards their own ultimate victory over us. Fluoridation of our community water systems can well become their most subtle weapon for our sure physical and mental deterioration... As a research chemist of established standing, I built within the past 22 years, 3 American chemical plants and licensed 6 of my 53 patents. Based on my years of practical experience in the health-food and chemical field, let me warn: fluoridation of drinking water is criminal insanity, sure national suicide. Don’t do it. "Even in the small quantities, sodium fluoride is a deadly poison to which no effective antidote has been found. Every exterminator knows that it is the most efficient rat-killer. ...Sodium fluoride is entirely different from organic calcium-fluoro-phosphate needed by our bodies and provided by nature, in God’s great providence and love, to build and strengthen our bones and our teeth. This organic calcium-fluoro-phosphate, derived from proper foods, is an edible organic salt, insoluble in water and assimilable by the human body, whereas the non-organic sodium fluoride used in fluoridating water is instant poison to the body and fully water soluble. The body refuses to assimilate it. Careful, bonafide laboratory experimentation by conscientious, patriotic research chemists, and actual medical experience, have both revealed that instead of preserving or promoting ‘dental health,’ fluoridated drinking water destroys teeth, before adulthood and after, by the destructive mottling and other pathological conditions it actually causes in them, and also creates many other grave pathological conditions in the internal organisms of bodies consuming it. How can it be called a "health" plan? What’s behind it? That any so-called "doctors" would persuade a civilized nation to add voluntarily a deadly poison to its drinking water systems is unbelievable. It is the height of criminal insanity. No wonder Hitler and Stalin fully believed and agreed from 1939 to 1941 that, quoting from both Lenin’s Last Will and Hitler’s Mein Kampf: "America we shall demoralize, divide, and destroy from within."... Are our Civil Defense organizations and agencies awake to the perils of water poisoning by fluoridation? Its use has been recorded in other countries. Sodium fluoride water solutions are the cheapest and most effective rat killers known to chemists: colorless, odorless, tasteless; no antidote, no remedy, no hope: Instant and complete extermination of rats... Fluoridation of water systems can be slow national suicide, or quick national liquidation. It is criminal insanity – treason!" DR. E. H. Bronner, Mfg. Research Chemist, Los Angeles. http://www.inlibertyandfreedom.com/fluoride.htm The use of Sodium Flouride for mass behavioral control in Nazi Germanyhttp://members.austarmetro.com.au/~hubbca/fluoride.htm There is a wealth of information at this sitehttp://www.fluoridealert.org/ The effects of flouride on the pineal gland--which is the gland responsible for production of seratonin/melatonin among other hormones (lack of which is a major cause of depression--AND the icing on the cake--- major anti depressants in the Prozac family etc... are flouride based)http://www.fluorideaction.org/ifin-269.htm The effects of flouride on the thyroid gland and hypothyroidism---yet another source of depression and impaired metabolism:http://www.fluoridealert.org/galletti.htm On the neurotoxicity of flouride:"A recent study in Brain Research demonstrated that chronic exposure to fluoride in drinking water of rats compromised neuronal (hippocampal) and cerebrovascular integrity (blood brain barrier) and increased aluminum concentrations in brain tissues."http://www.fluoridealert.org/pmullenix.htmGovernment Report---Alzheimers now 100 times 1979 rates;http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr50/nvsr50_15.pdfScientific research on Flouride:http://www.slweb.org/bibliography.html More than you ever wanted to know about flouride...Flouride--The Lunatic Drug:http://www.apfn.org/apfn/water.htm Tea is deadly---( both green and black)--isn't amazing how such a seemingly innocent and beloved (and often considered as health promoting) past time could serve so well in the agenda. On the other hand maybe it isn't so amazing...[The healthpromoting ingredient of green tea can be found extracted in health stores]http://www.mercola.com/2000/sept/10/green_tea_fluoride_thyroid.htmFlouridating salt worldwide. (by your favourite breakfast company---Kellog, subsidiary of I G Farben) The target areas I believe are Europe---where water flouridation is not popular--and unlikely to be so, and third world nations in South America and Africa. http://64.177.90.157/pfpc/html/kellogg.html Flouridation in the UK---This issue is going through the parliamentary stages as we speak. [Ed note---I put this together around the fall of 2003 when the flouride issue was before the courts in the UK] An interesting excerpt: "The Government has stated publicly that it plans to target inner city areas as a priority - they have mentioned London and Manchester for starters. Statistically, such areas tend to have large concentrations of disadvantaged people who could be more susceptible to the effects of fluoride - such as the elderly, people deficient in calcium, magnesium and vitamin C, people with cardiovascular and kidney problems. Scientific findings[*2] have shown that poor nutrition increases the incidence and severity of dental fluorosis and skeletal fluorosis. So how will fluoride help these badly nourished and/or chronically ill people?" http://www.foresight-preconception.org.uk/water/frames/flouride1-nf.html More: (May 2003) "Health authorities are to get powers to dramatically increase the fluoridation of drinking water in England and Wales." http://archives.tcm.ie/breakingnews/2003/05/11/story98544.asp Map of US Flouridated areas (65.8%--the goal is 70%) http://www.ncsl.org/programs/health/flouride.htm (Canada is 40% flouridated, though I'm sure plans are afoot to expand on that---we must be vigilant!) ****************************************** For those who think they are 'safe' by drinking bottled water: Flouride in bottled water: (Ed Note: I belive water imported from Europe is mostly safe---but I would check out domestic or US sources) "How can a consumer tell how much fluoride is in their bottled water? Consumers interested in the specific amount of fluoride in a product, if it is not on the label, can get that information by contacting individual companies directly." http://www.bottledwater.org/public/PressRel3.htm One among thousands of reports that flouride does NOT diminish tooth decay in children. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-806982,00.html Flouride is good for the teeth? Severe Dental Flourosis In A Ten Year Old Girl History of flouride---There is a wealth of information here, chronicling the uses and sources of flouride from the 19th century on. http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~dcandmkw/fluoride/vchron.htm The cell killing ability of flourides. Excerpt: "Being that there is evidence that silicofluorides [what is added to most water supplies] may be even more toxic than NaF [sodium flouride], it is quite possible that the DNA damage and cell-killing ability might be even greater in the type of fluoride used in the water supplies." More on the use of silicoflourides: "Compared to a matched group of 30 towns that do not use silicofluorides, children in 30 communities that use these chemicals were over twice as likely to have over 10µg/dL of blood lead.... Silicofluorides are largely untested," said Professor Masters, who pointed out that over 90 percent of America's fluoridated drinking water supplies are treated with silicofluorides. "Virtually all research on fluoridation safety has focused on sodium fluoride, even though the studies in the 1930s showed important biological differences between these chemicals. The correlation with blood levels is especially serious because lead poisoning is associated with higher rates of learning disabilities, hyperactivity, substance abuse and crime." http://www.mercola.com/2000/sept/24/fluoride_kills_cells.htm Flourine and Organoflouride Pesticides Think you're 'safe' eating organic? "List 4 Inerts" are approved for use in the US National Organic Program which is administered by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). In 2000, approximately 125 individuals contacted USDA requesting that the use of sodium fluoride be denied in organic agriculture - all to no avail. http://www.fluoridealert.org/f-pesticides.htm Scientific Facts on the Biological Effects of Fluorides Fluoride exposure disrupts the synthesis of collagen and leads to the breakdown of collagen in bone, tendon, muscle, skin, cartilage, lungs, kidney and trachea. http://www.mdvventures.com/flouride.htm "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.fluoridealert.org/psr.htm Studies done in China "Since Mullenix et al. two more studies have been widely cited as evidence that fluorides inhibit IQ. These two epidemiology studies from China showed IQ deficits in children over-exposed to fluoride either via drinking water (Zhao et al, 1996) or soot from burning coal (Li et al, 1994) (21,22)." http://64.177.90.157/pfpc/html/pfpc__4.html Flourosis in India Introduction: What is Skeletal Fluorosis? - Michael Connett, May 2003 Skeletal fluorosis is a bone disease caused by excessive consumption of fluoride. The disease was first discovered in the 1920s, among cattle grazing downwind of aluminum and phosphate industries, and was first diagnosed in humans in 1932, among a group of Danish cryolite workers. Since that time, cases of skeletal fluorosis have been reported all over the world, among workers in industry, in communities where coal is used as an indoor fuel source, and in communities with high levels of fluoride in the water supply. According to the latest estimates from UNICEF, "fluorosis is endemic in at least 25 countries across the globe. The total number of people affected is not known, but a conservative estimate would number in the tens of millions." The fluorosis problem is most severe in the two largest countries of the world, China and India. [Ed. Note: not only is flouride rampant in the environment--but these countries are among the leading tea-drinking nations in the world] http://www.fluoridealert.org/fluorosis-india.htm ************ On the flouride--cancer and chromosome damage connection: In Poland, scientists at the Pomeranian Medical Academy reported that as little as 0.6 parts per million produced chromosomal damage to human white blood cells(7). The world's leading authority on the biological effects of fluoride, Dr. John Yiamouyiannis, estimates that 30,000 to 50,000 deaths each year in the USA are directly attributable to fluoride(8). Agreeing with Yiamouyiannis, Dr. Dean Burk, the Chief Chemist Emeritus of the U.S. National Cancer Institute, stated: " In point of fact, fluoride causes more human cancer death, and causes it faster, than any other chemical "(8). http://www.npwa.freeserve.co.uk/cancer.htm Enzyme Toxicity and Genetic Damage Studies suggest that even a supposedly “safe” concentration of 1 ppm of fluoride [the rate of most water flouridation---though some are higher] added to drinking water can interfere with critical biological functions. This was demonstrated in 1977 at Austria’s Siebersdorf Research Center by Dr. W. Klein and colleagues, who found that even the low dose of 1 ppm inhibited DNA repair enzyme activity by 50% and caused genetic and chromosome damage.62 http://www.townsendletter.com/Jan_2003/flouridecontroversy0103.htm Most researchers who have come out against flouridation have been either fired from their posts and discredited, or prevented from publishing their findings. Many consequently sued and were reinstated. http://www.fluoridation.com/censor.htm And particularly this: http://www.fluoridation.com/censor.htm#Mullenix%20Odyssey http://www.fluoridealert.org/suppression.htm Press Releases From New York State Coalition Against Flouridation: http://www.enn.com/direct/display-by-affiliate.asp?name=New%20York%20State%20Coalition%20Opposed%20to%20Fluoridation Problems With Flouride Filtration http://www.healingdaily.com/detoxification-diet/water-filtration-systems.htm What Government Community Health Workers Tell Us ! ! ! ! http://www.doh.gov.ph/cvhw/index.asp?cat_id=2 & topic_id=36 - Foods that are good sources of Flouride are tea (tsaang gubat), soy beans, coconut, seafoods, and some tubers like sweet potatoes. 5. Use flouride to make the teeth stronger and prevent cavities * Different ways of obtaining the benefits of flouride:- drinking water with flouride - mouth rinsing with flouride- using toothpaste with flouride- taking flouride tablets prescribed by the dentis - applying flouride directly on the tooth surface by the dentist ************* Flouride In The Environment http://www.earthisland.org/eijournal/fluoride/fluoride_editorial.html The Donora Fluoride Fog: A Secret History of America’s Worst Air Pollution Disaster http://www.earthisland.org/eijournal/fall98/fe_fall98donora.html Flouride And The Mohawks http://www.earthisland.org/eijournal/fall98/fe_fall98donora2.html ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Latest News: http://www.fluoridealert.org/news/ MEDIA RELEASE from FLUORIDE ACTION NETWORK: September 2, 2003 http://www.fluoridealert.org Contact: Dr. Paul Connett <pconnett or TEL (315) 379-9200 Scientists: Integrity needed on fluoride's health risks Hundreds of leading scientists and public health activists from across the globe issued a joint statement today, urging governments promoting fluoridation to "bring some integrity into the debate" and stop what those who organized the petition call a cover-up of the public health risks posed by decades of adding fluoride to drinking water. The petition and list of signers is available at http://www.fluoridealert.org/integrity.htm It will be published in the October issue of The Ecologist. ******************************************************************************************************** http://www.nofluoride.com/epa_hirzy_letter.htm EPA Scientists oppose Fluoridation P.O. BOX 76082 WASHINGTON, DC 20013 202-260-2383(V) 202-401-3139(F)May 1, 1999 WHY EPA'S HEADQUARTERS UNION OF SCIENTISTS OPPOSES FLUORIDATION The following documents why our union, formerly National Federation of Federal Employees Local 2050 and since April 1998 Chapter 280 of the National Treasury Employees Union, took the stand it did opposing fluoridation of drinking water supplies. Our union is comprised of and represents the approximately 1500 scientists, lawyers, engineers and other professional employees at EPA Headquarters here in Washington, D.C. The union first became interested in this issue rather by accident. Like most Americans, including many physicians and dentists, most of our members had thought that fluoride's only effects were beneficial - reductions in tooth decay, etc. We too believed assurances of safety and effectiveness of water fluoridation . Then, as EPA was engaged in revising its drinking water standard for fluoride in 1985, an employee came to the union with a complaint: he said he was being forced to write into the regulation a statement to the effect that EPA thought it was alright for children to have "funky" teeth. It was OK, EPA said, because it considered that condition to be only a cosmetic effect, not an adverse health effect. The reason for this EPA position was that it was under political pressure to set its health-based standard for fluoride at 4 mg/liter. At that level, EPA knew that a significant number of children develop moderate to severe dental fluorosis, but since it had deemed the effect as only cosmetic, EPA didn't have to set its health-based standard at a lower level to prevent it. We tried to settle this ethics issue quietly, within the family, but EPA was unable or unwilling to resist external political pressure, and we took the fight public with a union amicus curiae brief in a lawsuit filed against EPA by a public interest group. The union has published on this initial involvement period in detail.\1 Since then our opposition to drinking water fluoridation has grown, based on the scientific literature documenting the increasingly out-of-control exposures to fluoride, the lack of benefit to dental health from ingestion of fluoride and the hazards to human health from such ingestion. These hazards include acute toxic hazard, such as to people with impaired kidney function, as well as chronic toxic hazards of gene mutations, cancer, reproductive effects, neurotoxicity, bone pathology and dental fluorosis. First, a review of recent neurotoxicity research results. In 1995, Mullenix and co-workers \2 showed that rats given fluoride in drinking water at levels that give rise to plasma fluoride concentrations in the range seen in humans suffer neurotoxic effects that vary according to when the rats were given the fluoride - as adult animals, as young animals, or through the placenta before birth. Those exposed before birth were born hyperactive and remained so throughout their lives. Those exposed as young or adult animals displayed depressed activity. Then in 1998, Guan and co-workers \3 gave doses similar to those used by the Mullenix research group to try to understand the mechanism(s) underlying the effects seen by the Mullenix group. Guan's group found that several key chemicals in the brain - those that form the membrane of brain cells - were substantially depleted in rats given fluoride, as compared to those who did not get fluoride. Another 1998 publication by Varner, Jensen and others \4 reported on the brain- and kidney damaging effects in rats that were given fluoride in drinking water at the same level deemed "optimal" by pro-fluoridation groups, namely 1 part per million (1 ppm). Even more pronounced damage was seen in animals that got the fluoride in conjunction with aluminum. These results are especially disturbing because of the low dose level of fluoride that shows the toxic effect in rats - rats are more resistant to fluoride than humans. This latter statement is based on Mullenix's finding that it takes substantially more fluoride in the drinking water of rats than of humans to reach the same fluoride level in plasma. It is the level in plasma that determines how much fluoride is "seen" by particular tissues in the body. So when rats get 1 ppm in drinking water, their brains and kidneys are exposed to much less fluoride than humans getting 1 ppm, yet they are experiencing toxic effects. Thus we are compelled to consider the likelihood that humans are experiencing damage to their brains and kidneys at the "optimal" level of 1 ppm. In support of this concern are results from two epidemiology studies from China\5,\6 that show decreases in I.Q. in children who get more fluoride than the control groups of children in each study. These decreases are about 5 to 10 I.Q. points in children aged 8 to 13 years. Another troubling brain effect has recently surfaced: fluoride's interference with the function of the brain's pineal gland. The pineal gland produces melatonin which, among other roles, mediates the body's internal clock, doing such things as governing the onset of puberty. Jennifer Luke\7 has shown that fluoride accumulates in the pineal gland and inhibits its production of melatonin. She showed in test animals that this inhibition causes an earlier onset of sexual maturity, an effect reported in humans as well in 1956, as part of the Kingston/Newburgh study, which is discussed below. In fluoridated Newburgh, young girls experienced earlier onset of menstruation (on average, by six months) than girls in non-fluoridated Kingston \8. From a risk assessment perspective, all these brain effect data are particularly compelling and disturbing because they are convergent. We looked at the cancer data with alarm as well. There are epidemiology studies that are convergent with whole-animal and single-cell studies (dealing with the cancer hazard), just as the neurotoxicity research just mentioned all points in the same direction. EPA fired the Office of Drinking Water's chief toxicologist, Dr. William Marcus, who also was our local union's treasurer at the time, for refusing to remain silent on the cancer risk issue\9 . The judge who heard the lawsuit he brought against EPA over the firing made that finding - that EPA fired him over his fluoride work and not for the phony reason put forward by EPA management at his dismissal. Dr. Marcus won his lawsuit and is again at work at EPA. Documentation is available on request. The type of cancer of particular concern with fluoride, although not the only type, is osteosarcoma, especially in males. The National Toxicology Program conducted a two-year study \10 in which rats and mice were given sodium fluoride in drinking water. The positive result of that study (in which malignancies in tissues other than bone were also observed), particularly in male rats, is convergent with a host of data from tests showing fluoride's ability to cause mutations (a principal "trigger" mechanism for inducing a cell to become cancerous) e.g.\11a, b, c, d and data showing increases in osteosarcomas in young men in New Jersey \12 , Washington and Iowa \13 based on their drinking fluoridated water. It was his analysis, repeated statements about all these and other incriminating cancer data, and his requests for an independent, unbiased evaluation of them that got Dr. Marcus fired. Bone pathology other than cancer is a concern as well. An excellent review of this issue was published by Diesendorf et al. in 1997 \14. Five epidemiology studies have shown a higher rate of hip fractures in fluoridated vs. non-fluoridated communities. \15a, b, c, d, e. Crippling skeletal fluorosis was the endpoint used by EPA to set its primary drinking water standard in 1986, and the ethical deficiencies in that standard setting process prompted our union to join the Natural Resources Defense Council in opposing the standard in court, as mentioned above. Regarding the effectiveness of fluoride in reducing dental cavities, there has not been any double-blind study of fluoride's effectiveness as a caries preventative. There have been many, many small scale, selective publications on this issue that proponents cite to justify fluoridation, but the largest and most comprehensive study, one done by dentists trained by the National Institute of Dental Research, on over 39,000 school children aged 5-17 years, shows no significant differences (in terms of decayed, missing and filled teeth) among caries incidences in fluoridated, non-fluoridated and partially fluoridated communities.\16. The latest publication \17 on the fifty-year fluoridation experiment in two New York cities, Newburgh and Kingston, shows the same thing. The only significant difference in dental health between the two communities as a whole is that fluoridated Newburgh, N.Y. shows about twice the incidence of dental fluorosis (the first, visible sign of fluoride chronic toxicity) as seen in non-fluoridated Kingston. John Colquhoun's publication on this point of efficacy is especially important\18. Dr. Colquhoun was Principal Dental Officer for Auckland, the largest city in New Zealand, and a staunch supporter of fluoridation - until he was given the task of looking at the world-wide data on fluoridation's effectiveness in preventing cavities. The paper is titled, "Why I changed My Mind About Water Fluoridation." In it Colquhoun provides details on how data were manipulated to support fluoridation in English speaking countries, especially the U.S. and New Zealand. This paper explains why an ethical public health professional was compelled to do a 180 degree turn on fluoridation. Further on the point of the tide turning against drinking water fluoridation, statements are now coming from other dentists in the pro-fluoride camp who are starting to warn that topical fluoride (e.g. fluoride in tooth paste) is the only significantly beneficial way in which that substance affects dental health \19, \20, \21. However, if the concentrations of fluoride in the oral cavity are sufficient to inhibit bacterial enzymes and cause other bacteriostatic effects, then those concentrations are also capable of producing adverse effects in mammalian tissue, which likewise relies on enzyme systems. This statement is based not only on common sense, but also on results of mutation studies which show that fluoride can cause gene mutations in mammalian and lower order tissues at fluoride concentrations estimated to be present in the mouth from fluoridated tooth paste\22. Further, there were tumors of the oral cavity seen in the NTP cancer study mentioned above, further strengthening concern over the toxicity of topically applied fluoride. In any event, a person can choose whether to use fluoridated tooth paste or not (although finding non-fluoridated kinds is getting harder and harder), but one cannot avoid fluoride when it is put into the public water supplies. So, in addition to our concern over the toxicity of fluoride, we note the uncontrolled - and apparently uncontrollable - exposures to fluoride that are occurring nationwide via drinking water, processed foods, fluoride pesticide residues and dental care products. A recent report in the lay media\23, that, according to the Centers for Disease Control, at least 22 percent of America's children now have dental fluorosis, is just one indication of this uncontrolled, excess exposure. The finding of nearly 12 percent incidence of dental fluorosis among children in un-fluoridated Kingston New York\17 is another. For governmental and other organizations to continue to push for more exposure in the face of current levels of over-exposure coupled with an increasing crescendo of adverse toxicity findings is irrational and irresponsible at best.Thus, we took the stand that a policy which makes the public water supply a vehicle for disseminating this toxic and prophylactically useless (via ingestion, at any rate) substance is wrong. We have also taken a direct step to protect the employees we represent from the risks of drinking fluoridated water. We applied EPA's risk control methodology, the Reference Dose, to the recent neurotoxicity data. The Reference Dose is the daily dose, expressed in milligrams of chemical per kilogram of body weight, that a person can receive over the long term with reasonable assurance of safety from adverse effects. Application of this methodology to the Varner et al.\4 data leads to a Reference Dose for fluoride of 0.000007 mg/kg-day. Persons who drink about one quart of fluoridated water from the public drinking water supply of the District of Columbia while at work receive about 0.01mg/kg-day from that source alone. This amount of fluoride is more than 100 times the Reference Dose. On the basis of these results the union filed a grievance, asking that EPA provide un-fluoridated drinking water to its employees. The implication for the general public of these calculations is clear. Recent, peer-reviewed toxicity data, when applied to EPA's standard method for controlling risks from toxic chemicals, require an immediate halt to the use of the nation's drinking water reservoirs as disposal sites for the toxic waste of the phosphate fertilizer industry\24. This document was prepared on behalf of the National Treasury Employees Union Chapter 280 by Chapter Senior Vice-President J. William Hirzy, Ph.D. For more information please call Dr. Hirzy at 202-260-4683. His E-mail address is <hirzy.john END NOTE LITERATURE CITATIONS 1.Applying the NAEP code of ethics to the Environmental Protection Agency and the fluoride in drinking water standard. Carton, R.J. and Hirzy, J.W. Proceedings of the 23rd Ann. Conf. of the National Association of Environmental Professionals. 20-24 June, 1998. GEN 51-61. On-line at URL http//:www.rvi.net/~fluoride/naep.htm 2.Neurotoxicity of sodium fluoride in rats. Mullenix, P.J., Denbesten, P.K., Schunior, A. and Kernan, W.J. Neurotoxicol. Teratol. 17 169-177 (1995) 3. Influence of chronic fluorosis on membrane lipids in rat brain. Z.Z. Guan, Y.N. Wang, K.Q. Xiao, D.Y. Dai, Y.H. Chen, J.L. Liu, P. Sindelar and G. Dallner, Neurotoxicology and Teratology 20 537-542 (1998).4. Chronic administration of aluminum- fluoride or sodium-fluoride to rats in drinking water: alterations in neuronal and cerebrovascular integrity. Varner, J.A., Jensen, K.F., Horvath, W. And Isaacson, R.L. Brain Research 784 284-298 (1998). 5. Effect of high fluoride water supply on children's intelligence. Zhao, L.B., Liang, G.H., Zhang, D.N., and Wu, X.R. Fluoride 29 190-192 (1996) 6.. Effect of fluoride exposure on intelligence in children. Li, X.S., Zhi, J.L., and Gao, R.O. Fluoride 28 (1995). 7. Effect of fluoride on the physiology of the pineal gland. Luke, J.A. Caries Research 28 204 (1994).8. Newburgh-Kingston caries-fluorine study XIII. Pediatric findings after ten years. Schlesinger, E.R., Overton, D.E., Chase, H.C., and Cantwell, K.T. JADA 52 296-306 (1956). 9. Memorandum dated May 1, 1990. Fluoride Conference to Review the NTP Draft Fluoride Report; Wm. L. Marcus, Senior Science Advisor ODW; Alan B. Hais, Acting Director Criteria & Standards Division ODW. 10. Toxicology and carcinogenesis studies of sodium fluoride in F344/N rats and B6C3F1 mice. NTP Report No. 393 (1991). 11a. Chromosome aberrations, sister chromatid exchanges, unscheduled DNA synthesis and morphological neoplastic transformation in Syrian hamster embryo cells. Tsutsui et al. Cancer Research 44 938-941 (1984). 11b. Cytotoxicity, chromosome aberrations and unscheduled DNA synthesis in cultured human diploid fibroblasts. Tsutsui et al. Mutation Research 139 193-198 (1984). 11c. Positive mouse lymphoma assay with and without S-9 activation; positive sister chromatid exchange in Chinese hamster ovary cells with and without S-9 activation; positive chromosome aberration without S-9 activation. Toxicology and carcinogenesis studies of sodium fluoride in F344/N rats and B6C3F1 mice. NTP Report No. 393 (1991). 11d. An increase in the number of Down's syndrome babies born to younger mothers in cities following fluoridation. Science and Public Policy 12 36-46 (1985). 12. A brief report on the association of drinking water fluoridation and the incidence of osteosarcoma among young males. Cohn, P.D. New Jersey Department of Health (1992). 13. Surveillance, epidemiology and end results (SEER) program. National Cancer Institute in Review of fluoride benefits and risks. Department of Health and Human Services. F1-F7 (1991). 14. New evidence on fluoridation. Diesendorf, M., Colquhoun, J., Spittle, B.J., Everingham, D.N., and Clutterbuck, F.W. Australian and New Zealand J. Public Health. 21 187-190 (1997). 15a. Regional variation in the incidence of hip fracture: U.S. white women aged 65 years and older. Jacobsen, S.J., Goldberg, J., Miles, ,T.P. et al. JAMA 264 500-502 (1990) 15b. Hip fracture and fluoridation in Utah's elderly population. Danielson, C., Lyon, J.L., Egger, M., and Goodenough, G.K. JAMA 268 746-748 (1992). 15c. The association between water fluoridation and hip fracture among white women and men aged 65 years and older: a national ecological study. Jacobsen, S.J., Goldberg, J., Cooper, C. and Lockwood, S.A. Ann. Epidemiol.2 617-626 (1992). 15d. Fluorine concentration is drinking water and fractures in the elderly [letter]. Jacqmin-Gadda, H., Commenges, D. and Dartigues, J.F. JAMA 273 775-776 (1995). 15e. Water fluoridation and hip fracture [letter]. Cooper, C., Wickham, C.A.C., Barker, D.J.R. and Jacobson, S.J. JAMA 266 513-514 (1991).16. Water fluoridation and tooth decay: Results from the 1986-1987 national survey of U.S. school children. Yiamouyannis, J. Fluoride 23 55-67 (1990). 17. Recommendations for fluoride use in children. Kumar, J.V. and Green, E.L. New York State Dent. J. (1998) 40-47.18. Why I changed my mind about water fluoridation. Colquhoun, J. Perspectives in Biol. And Medicine 41 1-16 (1997). 19. A re-examination of the pre-eruptive and post-eruptive mechanism of the anti-caries effects of fluoride: is there any anti-caries benefit from swallowing fluoride? Limeback, H. Community Dent. Oral Epidemiol. 27 62-71 (1999). 20. Fluoride supplements for young children: an analysis of the literature focussing on benefits and risks. Riordan, P.J. Community Dent. Oral Epidemiol. 27 72-83 (1999). 21. Prevention and reversal of dental caries: role of low level fluoride. Featherstone, J.D. Community Dent. Oral Epidemiol. 27 31-40 (1999). 22. Appendix H. Review of fluoride benefits and risks. Department of Health and Human Services. H1-H6 (1991). 23.Some young children get too much fluoride. Parker-Pope, T. Wall Street Journal Dec. 21, 1998. 24. Letter from Rebecca Hanmer, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Water, to Leslie Russell re: EPA view on use of by-product fluosilicic (sic) acid as low cost source of fluoride to water authorities. March 30, 1983.OTHER CITATIONS (This short list does not include the entire literature on fluoride effects) a. Exposure to high fluoride concentrations in drinking water is associated with decreased birth rates. Freni, S.C. J. Toxicol. Environ. Health 42 109-121 (1994) b. Ameliorative effects of reduced food-borne fluoride on reproduction in silver foxes. Eckerlin, R.H., Maylin, G.A., Krook, L., and Carmichael, D.T. Cornell Vet. 78 75-91 (1988). c. Milk production of cows fed fluoride contaminated commercial feed. Eckerlin, R.H., Maylin, G.A., and Krook, L. Cornell Vet. 76 403-404 (1986). d. Maternal-fetal transfer of fluoride in pregnant women. Calders, R., Chavine, J., Fermanian, J., Tortrat, D., and Laurent, A.M. Biol. Neonate 54 263-269 (1988). e. Effects of fluoride on screech owl reproduction: teratological evaluation, growth, and blood chemistry in hatchlings. Hoffman, D.J., Pattee, O.H., and Wiemeyer, S.N. Toxicol. Lett. 26 19-24 (1985). f. Fluoride intoxication in dairy calves. Maylin, G.A., Eckerlin, R.H., and Krook, L. Cornell Vet. 77 84-98 (1987). g. Fluoride inhibition of protein synthesis. Holland, R.I. Cell Biol. Int. Rep. 3 701-705 (1979). h. An unexpectedly strong hydrogen bond: ab initio calculations and spectroscopic studies of amide-fluoride systems. Emsley, J., Jones, D.J., Miller, J.M., Overill, R.E. and Waddilove, R.A. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 103 24-28 (1981). i. The effect of sodium fluoride on the growth and differentiation of human fetal osteoblasts. Song, X.D., Zhang, W.Z., Li, L.Y., Pang, Z.L., and Tan, Y.B. Fluoride 21 149-158 (1988). j. Modulation of phosphoinositide hydrolysis by NaF and aluminum in rat cortical slices. Jope, R.S. J. Neurochem. 51 1731-1736 (1988). k. The crystal structure of fluoride-inhibited cytochrome c peroxidase. Edwards, S.L., Poulos, T.L., Kraut, J. J. Biol. Chem. 259 12984-12988 (1984). l. Intracellular fluoride alters the kinetic properties of calcium currents facilitating the investigation of synaptic events in hippocampal neurons. Kay, A.R., Miles, R., and Wong, R.K.S. J. Neurosci. 6 2915-2920 (1986). m. Fluoride intoxication: a clinical-hygienic study with a review of the literature and some experimental investigations. Roholm, K. H.K. Lewis Ltd (London) (1937).n. Toxin-induced blood vessel inclusions caused by the chronic administration of aluminum and sodium fluoride and their implications for dementia. Isaacson, R.L., Varner, J.A., and Jensen, K. F. Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 825 152-166 (1997). o. Allergy and hypersensitivity to fluoride. Spittle, B. Fluoride 26 267-273 (1993) ************************************************************************************** Please distribute this information widely and educate your friends and neighbours about this outrageous assault on the human race, and earth itself. Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 21, 2004 Report Share Posted February 21, 2004 Excellent info! I will devote some time to following the links. Thank you for compiling it. Tom , Bea Bernhausen <beabernhausen> wrote: > Sorry for the length of this --but since it's a compilation I put together--there's no URL. > ***** Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 22, 2004 Report Share Posted February 22, 2004 Sun, 22 Feb 2004 13:52:03 -0000 Fwd: THE DEADLY LEGACY OF FLOURIDE , Bea Bernhausen wrote: Sorry for the length of this --but since it's a compilation I put together--there's no URL. ***** The flouride assault on humanity and the planet has been part of the AGENDA for over fifty years. Not only that but we have been conditioned to believe that it's GOOD FOR US! What is described in this brief investigation is enough to show why so many people world wide are so shockingly afflicted--- physically, mentally and spiritually by this mass poisoning that has been going on for more than half a century--and proposed to be expanded even further. ********************************************************************** ******************************** Top Secret Meeting " of the Manhattan Project was about flouride toxicity----to figure out how much of the waste from nuclear bombs they could dump by recycling it through the population. http://www.fluoridealert.org/1944-conference.htm Toxic Secrets--Flouride And The A-Bomb Project http://www.nexusmagazine.com/fluoridebomb.html *************** " In the 1930's, Hitler and the German Nazi's envisioned a world to be dominated and controlled by a Nazi philosophy of pan-Germanism. The German chemists worked out a very ingenious and far-reaching plan of mass-control which was submitted to and adopted by the German General Staff. This plan was to control the population in any given area through mass medication of drinking water supplies. By this method they could control the population in whole areas, reduce population by water medication that would produce sterility in women, and so on. In this scheme of mass-control, sodium fluoride occupied a prominent place . " - Charles Perkins " I was told of this entire scheme by a German chemist who was an official of the great IG Farben chemical industries and was also prominent in the Nazi movement at the time. I say this with all the earnestness and sincerity of a scientist who has spent nearly 20 years` research into the chemistry, biochemistry, physiology and pathology of fluorine--any person who drinks artificially fluorinated water for a period of one year or more will never again be the same person mentally or physically. " Charles Perkins Charles Eliot Perkins, was a research worker in chemistry, biochemistry, physiology and pathology, sent by the US to take charge of the vast Farben chemical plants in Germany at the end of the WW II. ********************* Quoting Eintsein's nephew, Dr. E.H. Bronner ( a chemist who had also been a prisoner of war during WWII) in a letter printed in The Catholic Mirror, Springfield, MA, January 1952: " It appears that the citizens of Massachusetts are among the `next' on the agenda of the water poisoners. There is a sinister network of subversive agents, Godless `intellectual' parasites, working in our country today whose ramifications grow more extensive, more successful and more alarming each new year and whose true objective is to demoralize, paralyze and destroy our great Republic – from within if they can, according to their plan – for their own possession. The tragic success they have already attained in their long siege to destroy the moral fiber of American life is now one of their most potent footholds towards their own ultimate victory over us. Fluoridation of our community water systems can well become their most subtle weapon for our sure physical and mental deterioration... As a research chemist of established standing, I built within the past 22 years, 3 American chemical plants and licensed 6 of my 53 patents. Based on my years of practical experience in the health-food and chemical field, let me warn: fluoridation of drinking water is criminal insanity, sure national suicide. Don't do it. " Even in the small quantities, sodium fluoride is a deadly poison to which no effective antidote has been found. Every exterminator knows that it is the most efficient rat-killer. ...Sodium fluoride is entirely different from organic calcium-fluoro-phosphate needed by our bodies and provided by nature, in God's great providence and love, to build and strengthen our bones and our teeth. This organic calcium-fluoro-phosphate, derived from proper foods, is an edible organic salt, insoluble in water and assimilable by the human body, whereas the non-organic sodium fluoride used in fluoridating water is instant poison to the body and fully water soluble. The body refuses to assimilate it. Careful, bonafide laboratory experimentation by conscientious, patriotic research chemists, and actual medical experience, have both revealed that instead of preserving or promoting `dental health,' fluoridated drinking water destroys teeth, before adulthood and after, by the destructive mottling and other pathological conditions it actually causes in them, and also creates many other grave pathological conditions in the internal organisms of bodies consuming it. How can it be called a " health " plan? What's behind it? That any so-called " doctors " would persuade a civilized nation to add voluntarily a deadly poison to its drinking water systems is unbelievable. It is the height of criminal insanity. No wonder Hitler and Stalin fully believed and agreed from 1939 to 1941 that, quoting from both Lenin's Last Will and Hitler's Mein Kampf: " America we shall demoralize, divide, and destroy from within. " ... Are our Civil Defense organizations and agencies awake to the perils of water poisoning by fluoridation? Its use has been recorded in other countries. Sodium fluoride water solutions are the cheapest and most effective rat killers known to chemists: colorless, odorless, tasteless; no antidote, no remedy, no hope: Instant and complete extermination of rats... Fluoridation of water systems can be slow national suicide, or quick national liquidation. It is criminal insanity – treason! " DR. E. H. Bronner, Mfg. Research Chemist, Los Angeles. http://www.inlibertyandfreedom.com/fluoride.htm The use of Sodium Flouride for mass behavioral control in Nazi Germany http://members.austarmetro.com.au/~hubbca/fluoride.htm There is a wealth of information at this site http://www.fluoridealert.org/ The effects of flouride on the pineal gland--which is the gland responsible for production of seratonin/melatonin among other hormones (lack of which is a major cause of depression--AND the icing on the cake--- major anti depressants in the Prozac family etc... are flouride based) http://www.fluorideaction.org/ifin-269.htm The effects of flouride on the thyroid gland and hypothyroidism---yet another source of depression and impaired metabolism: http://www.fluoridealert.org/galletti.htm On the neurotoxicity of flouride: " A recent study in Brain Research demonstrated that chronic exposure to fluoride in drinking water of rats compromised neuronal (hippocampal) and cerebrovascular integrity (blood brain barrier) and increased aluminum concentrations in brain tissues. " http://www.fluoridealert.org/pmullenix.htm Government Report---Alzheimers now 100 times 1979 rates; http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr50/nvsr50_15.pdf Scientific research on Flouride: http://www.slweb.org/bibliography.html More than you ever wanted to know about flouride... Flouride--The Lunatic Drug: http://www.apfn.org/apfn/water.htm Tea is deadly---( both green and black)--isn't amazing how such a seemingly innocent and beloved (and often considered as health promoting) past time could serve so well in the agenda. On the other hand maybe it isn't so amazing...[The healthpromoting ingredient of green tea can be found extracted in health stores] http://www.mercola.com/2000/sept/10/green_tea_fluoride_thyroid.htm Flouridating salt worldwide. (by your favourite breakfast company--- Kellog, subsidiary of I G Farben) The target areas I believe are Europe---where water flouridation is not popular--and unlikely to be so, and third world nations in South America and Africa. http://64.177.90.157/pfpc/html/kellogg.html Flouridation in the UK---This issue is going through the parliamentary stages as we speak. [Ed note---I put this together around the fall of 2003 when the flouride issue was before the courts in the UK] An interesting excerpt: " The Government has stated publicly that it plans to target inner city areas as a priority - they have mentioned London and Manchester for starters. Statistically, such areas tend to have large concentrations of disadvantaged people who could be more susceptible to the effects of fluoride - such as the elderly, people deficient in calcium, magnesium and vitamin C, people with cardiovascular and kidney problems. Scientific findings[*2] have shown that poor nutrition increases the incidence and severity of dental fluorosis and skeletal fluorosis. So how will fluoride help these badly nourished and/or chronically ill people? " http://www.foresight-preconception.org.uk/water/frames/flouride1- nf.html More: (May 2003) " Health authorities are to get powers to dramatically increase the fluoridation of drinking water in England and Wales. " http://archives.tcm.ie/breakingnews/2003/05/11/story98544.asp Map of US Flouridated areas (65.8%--the goal is 70%) http://www.ncsl.org/programs/health/flouride.htm (Canada is 40% flouridated, though I'm sure plans are afoot to expand on that---we must be vigilant!) ****************************************** For those who think they are 'safe' by drinking bottled water: Flouride in bottled water: (Ed Note: I belive water imported from Europe is mostly safe---but I would check out domestic or US sources) " How can a consumer tell how much fluoride is in their bottled water? Consumers interested in the specific amount of fluoride in a product, if it is not on the label, can get that information by contacting individual companies directly. " http://www.bottledwater.org/public/PressRel3.htm One among thousands of reports that flouride does NOT diminish tooth decay in children. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-806982,00.html Flouride is good for the teeth? Severe Dental Flourosis In A Ten Year Old Girl History of flouride---There is a wealth of information here, chronicling the uses and sources of flouride from the 19th century on. http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~dcandmkw/fluoride/vchron.htm The cell killing ability of flourides. Excerpt: " Being that there is evidence that silicofluorides [what is added to most water supplies] may be even more toxic than NaF [sodium flouride], it is quite possible that the DNA damage and cell-killing ability might be even greater in the type of fluoride used in the water supplies. " More on the use of silicoflourides: " Compared to a matched group of 30 towns that do not use silicofluorides, children in 30 communities that use these chemicals were over twice as likely to have over 10µg/dL of blood lead.... Silicofluorides are largely untested, " said Professor Masters, who pointed out that over 90 percent of America's fluoridated drinking water supplies are treated with silicofluorides. " Virtually all research on fluoridation safety has focused on sodium fluoride, even though the studies in the 1930s showed important biological differences between these chemicals. The correlation with blood levels is especially serious because lead poisoning is associated with higher rates of learning disabilities, hyperactivity, substance abuse and crime. " http://www.mercola.com/2000/sept/24/fluoride_kills_cells.htm Flourine and Organoflouride Pesticides Think you're 'safe' eating organic? " List 4 Inerts " are approved for use in the US National Organic Program which is administered by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). In 2000, approximately 125 individuals contacted USDA requesting that the use of sodium fluoride be denied in organic agriculture - all to no avail. http://www.fluoridealert.org/f-pesticides.htm Scientific Facts on the Biological Effects of Fluorides Fluoride exposure disrupts the synthesis of collagen and leads to the breakdown of collagen in bone, tendon, muscle, skin, cartilage, lungs, kidney and trachea. http://www.mdvventures.com/flouride.htm " 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.fluoridealert.org/psr.htm Studies done in China " Since Mullenix et al. two more studies have been widely cited as evidence that fluorides inhibit IQ. These two epidemiology studies from China showed IQ deficits in children over-exposed to fluoride either via drinking water (Zhao et al, 1996) or soot from burning coal (Li et al, 1994) (21,22). " http://64.177.90.157/pfpc/html/pfpc__4.html Flourosis in India Introduction: What is Skeletal Fluorosis? - Michael Connett, May 2003 Skeletal fluorosis is a bone disease caused by excessive consumption of fluoride. The disease was first discovered in the 1920s, among cattle grazing downwind of aluminum and phosphate industries, and was first diagnosed in humans in 1932, among a group of Danish cryolite workers. Since that time, cases of skeletal fluorosis have been reported all over the world, among workers in industry, in communities where coal is used as an indoor fuel source, and in communities with high levels of fluoride in the water supply. According to the latest estimates from UNICEF, " fluorosis is endemic in at least 25 countries across the globe. The total number of people affected is not known, but a conservative estimate would number in the tens of millions. " The fluorosis problem is most severe in the two largest countries of the world, China and India. [Ed. Note: not only is flouride rampant in the environment--but these countries are among the leading tea- drinking nations in the world] http://www.fluoridealert.org/fluorosis-india.htm ************ On the flouride--cancer and chromosome damage connection: In Poland, scientists at the Pomeranian Medical Academy reported that as little as 0.6 parts per million produced chromosomal damage to human white blood cells(7). The world's leading authority on the biological effects of fluoride, Dr. John Yiamouyiannis, estimates that 30,000 to 50,000 deaths each year in the USA are directly attributable to fluoride(8). Agreeing with Yiamouyiannis, Dr. Dean Burk, the Chief Chemist Emeritus of the U.S. National Cancer Institute, stated: " In point of fact, fluoride causes more human cancer death, and causes it faster, than any other chemical " (8). http://www.npwa.freeserve.co.uk/cancer.htm Enzyme Toxicity and Genetic Damage Studies suggest that even a supposedly " safe " concentration of 1 ppm of fluoride [the rate of most water flouridation---though some are higher] added to drinking water can interfere with critical biological functions. This was demonstrated in 1977 at Austria's Siebersdorf Research Center by Dr. W. Klein and colleagues, who found that even the low dose of 1 ppm inhibited DNA repair enzyme activity by 50% and caused genetic and chromosome damage.62 http://www.townsendletter.com/Jan_2003/flouridecontroversy0103.htm Most researchers who have come out against flouridation have been either fired from their posts and discredited, or prevented from publishing their findings. Many consequently sued and were reinstated. http://www.fluoridation.com/censor.htm And particularly this: http://www.fluoridation.com/censor.htm#Mullenix%20Odyssey http://www.fluoridealert.org/suppression.htm Press Releases From New York State Coalition Against Flouridation: http://www.enn.com/direct/display-by-affiliate.asp?name=New%20York% 20State%20Coalition%20Opposed%20to%20Fluoridation Problems With Flouride Filtration http://www.healingdaily.com/detoxification-diet/water-filtration- systems.htm What Government Community Health Workers Tell Us ! ! ! ! http://www.doh.gov.ph/cvhw/index.asp?cat_id=2 & topic_id=36 - Foods that are good sources of Flouride are tea (tsaang gubat), soy beans, coconut, seafoods, and some tubers like sweet potatoes. 5. Use flouride to make the teeth stronger and prevent cavities * Different ways of obtaining the benefits of flouride:- drinking water with flouride - mouth rinsing with flouride- using toothpaste with flouride- taking flouride tablets prescribed by the dentis - applying flouride directly on the tooth surface by the dentist ************* Flouride In The Environment http://www.earthisland.org/eijournal/fluoride/fluoride_editorial.html The Donora Fluoride Fog: A Secret History of America's Worst Air Pollution Disaster http://www.earthisland.org/eijournal/fall98/fe_fall98donora.html Flouride And The Mohawks http://www.earthisland.org/eijournal/fall98/fe_fall98donora2.html ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Latest News: http://www.fluoridealert.org/news/ MEDIA RELEASE from FLUORIDE ACTION NETWORK: September 2, 2003 http://www.fluoridealert.org Contact: Dr. Paul Connett or TEL (315) 379-9200 Scientists: Integrity needed on fluoride's health risks Hundreds of leading scientists and public health activists from across the globe issued a joint statement today, urging governments promoting fluoridation to " bring some integrity into the debate " and stop what those who organized the petition call a cover-up of the public health risks posed by decades of adding fluoride to drinking water. The petition and list of signers is available at http://www.fluoridealert.org/integrity.htm It will be published in the October issue of The Ecologist. ********************************************************************** ********************************** http://www.nofluoride.com/epa_hirzy_letter.htm EPA Scientists oppose Fluoridation P.O. BOX 76082 WASHINGTON, DC 20013 202-260-2383(V) 202-401-3139(F) May 1, 1999 WHY EPA'S HEADQUARTERS UNION OF SCIENTISTS OPPOSES FLUORIDATION The following documents why our union, formerly National Federation of Federal Employees Local 2050 and since April 1998 Chapter 280 of the National Treasury Employees Union, took the stand it did opposing fluoridation of drinking water supplies. Our union is comprised of and represents the approximately 1500 scientists, lawyers, engineers and other professional employees at EPA Headquarters here in Washington, D.C. The union first became interested in this issue rather by accident. Like most Americans, including many physicians and dentists, most of our members had thought that fluoride's only effects were beneficial - reductions in tooth decay, etc. We too believed assurances of safety and effectiveness of water fluoridation . Then, as EPA was engaged in revising its drinking water standard for fluoride in 1985, an employee came to the union with a complaint: he said he was being forced to write into the regulation a statement to the effect that EPA thought it was alright for children to have " funky " teeth. It was OK, EPA said, because it considered that condition to be only a cosmetic effect, not an adverse health effect. The reason for this EPA position was that it was under political pressure to set its health-based standard for fluoride at 4 mg/liter. At that level, EPA knew that a significant number of children develop moderate to severe dental fluorosis, but since it had deemed the effect as only cosmetic, EPA didn't have to set its health-based standard at a lower level to prevent it. We tried to settle this ethics issue quietly, within the family, but EPA was unable or unwilling to resist external political pressure, and we took the fight public with a union amicus curiae brief in a lawsuit filed against EPA by a public interest group. The union has published on this initial involvement period in detail.\1 Since then our opposition to drinking water fluoridation has grown, based on the scientific literature documenting the increasingly out- of-control exposures to fluoride, the lack of benefit to dental health from ingestion of fluoride and the hazards to human health from such ingestion. These hazards include acute toxic hazard, such as to people with impaired kidney function, as well as chronic toxic hazards of gene mutations, cancer, reproductive effects, neurotoxicity, bone pathology and dental fluorosis. First, a review of recent neurotoxicity research results. In 1995, Mullenix and co-workers \2 showed that rats given fluoride in drinking water at levels that give rise to plasma fluoride concentrations in the range seen in humans suffer neurotoxic effects that vary according to when the rats were given the fluoride - as adult animals, as young animals, or through the placenta before birth. Those exposed before birth were born hyperactive and remained so throughout their lives. Those exposed as young or adult animals displayed depressed activity. Then in 1998, Guan and co-workers \3 gave doses similar to those used by the Mullenix research group to try to understand the mechanism(s) underlying the effects seen by the Mullenix group. Guan's group found that several key chemicals in the brain - those that form the membrane of brain cells - were substantially depleted in rats given fluoride, as compared to those who did not get fluoride. Another 1998 publication by Varner, Jensen and others \4 reported on the brain- and kidney damaging effects in rats that were given fluoride in drinking water at the same level deemed " optimal " by pro- fluoridation groups, namely 1 part per million (1 ppm). Even more pronounced damage was seen in animals that got the fluoride in conjunction with aluminum. These results are especially disturbing because of the low dose level of fluoride that shows the toxic effect in rats - rats are more resistant to fluoride than humans. This latter statement is based on Mullenix's finding that it takes substantially more fluoride in the drinking water of rats than of humans to reach the same fluoride level in plasma. It is the level in plasma that determines how much fluoride is " seen " by particular tissues in the body. So when rats get 1 ppm in drinking water, their brains and kidneys are exposed to much less fluoride than humans getting 1 ppm, yet they are experiencing toxic effects. Thus we are compelled to consider the likelihood that humans are experiencing damage to their brains and kidneys at the " optimal " level of 1 ppm. In support of this concern are results from two epidemiology studies from China\5,\6 that show decreases in I.Q. in children who get more fluoride than the control groups of children in each study. These decreases are about 5 to 10 I.Q. points in children aged 8 to 13 years. Another troubling brain effect has recently surfaced: fluoride's interference with the function of the brain's pineal gland. The pineal gland produces melatonin which, among other roles, mediates the body's internal clock, doing such things as governing the onset of puberty. Jennifer Luke\7 has shown that fluoride accumulates in the pineal gland and inhibits its production of melatonin. She showed in test animals that this inhibition causes an earlier onset of sexual maturity, an effect reported in humans as well in 1956, as part of the Kingston/Newburgh study, which is discussed below. In fluoridated Newburgh, young girls experienced earlier onset of menstruation (on average, by six months) than girls in non- fluoridated Kingston \8. From a risk assessment perspective, all these brain effect data are particularly compelling and disturbing because they are convergent. We looked at the cancer data with alarm as well. There are epidemiology studies that are convergent with whole-animal and single- cell studies (dealing with the cancer hazard), just as the neurotoxicity research just mentioned all points in the same direction. EPA fired the Office of Drinking Water's chief toxicologist, Dr. William Marcus, who also was our local union's treasurer at the time, for refusing to remain silent on the cancer risk issue\9 . The judge who heard the lawsuit he brought against EPA over the firing made that finding - that EPA fired him over his fluoride work and not for the phony reason put forward by EPA management at his dismissal. Dr. Marcus won his lawsuit and is again at work at EPA. Documentation is available on request. The type of cancer of particular concern with fluoride, although not the only type, is osteosarcoma, especially in males. The National Toxicology Program conducted a two-year study \10 in which rats and mice were given sodium fluoride in drinking water. The positive result of that study (in which malignancies in tissues other than bone were also observed), particularly in male rats, is convergent with a host of data from tests showing fluoride's ability to cause mutations (a principal " trigger " mechanism for inducing a cell to become cancerous) e.g.\11a, b, c, d and data showing increases in osteosarcomas in young men in New Jersey \12 , Washington and Iowa \13 based on their drinking fluoridated water. It was his analysis, repeated statements about all these and other incriminating cancer data, and his requests for an independent, unbiased evaluation of them that got Dr. Marcus fired. Bone pathology other than cancer is a concern as well. An excellent review of this issue was published by Diesendorf et al. in 1997 \14. Five epidemiology studies have shown a higher rate of hip fractures in fluoridated vs. non-fluoridated communities. \15a, b, c, d, e. Crippling skeletal fluorosis was the endpoint used by EPA to set its primary drinking water standard in 1986, and the ethical deficiencies in that standard setting process prompted our union to join the Natural Resources Defense Council in opposing the standard in court, as mentioned above. Regarding the effectiveness of fluoride in reducing dental cavities, there has not been any double-blind study of fluoride's effectiveness as a caries preventative. There have been many, many small scale, selective publications on this issue that proponents cite to justify fluoridation, but the largest and most comprehensive study, one done by dentists trained by the National Institute of Dental Research, on over 39,000 school children aged 5-17 years, shows no significant differences (in terms of decayed, missing and filled teeth) among caries incidences in fluoridated, non-fluoridated and partially fluoridated communities.\16. The latest publication \17 on the fifty- year fluoridation experiment in two New York cities, Newburgh and Kingston, shows the same thing. The only significant difference in dental health between the two communities as a whole is that fluoridated Newburgh, N.Y. shows about twice the incidence of dental fluorosis (the first, visible sign of fluoride chronic toxicity) as seen in non-fluoridated Kingston. John Colquhoun's publication on this point of efficacy is especially important\18. Dr. Colquhoun was Principal Dental Officer for Auckland, the largest city in New Zealand, and a staunch supporter of fluoridation - until he was given the task of looking at the world- wide data on fluoridation's effectiveness in preventing cavities. The paper is titled, " Why I changed My Mind About Water Fluoridation. " In it Colquhoun provides details on how data were manipulated to support fluoridation in English speaking countries, especially the U.S. and New Zealand. This paper explains why an ethical public health professional was compelled to do a 180 degree turn on fluoridation. Further on the point of the tide turning against drinking water fluoridation, statements are now coming from other dentists in the pro-fluoride camp who are starting to warn that topical fluoride (e.g. fluoride in tooth paste) is the only significantly beneficial way in which that substance affects dental health \19, \20, \21. However, if the concentrations of fluoride in the oral cavity are sufficient to inhibit bacterial enzymes and cause other bacteriostatic effects, then those concentrations are also capable of producing adverse effects in mammalian tissue, which likewise relies on enzyme systems. This statement is based not only on common sense, but also on results of mutation studies which show that fluoride can cause gene mutations in mammalian and lower order tissues at fluoride concentrations estimated to be present in the mouth from fluoridated tooth paste\22. Further, there were tumors of the oral cavity seen in the NTP cancer study mentioned above, further strengthening concern over the toxicity of topically applied fluoride. In any event, a person can choose whether to use fluoridated tooth paste or not (although finding non-fluoridated kinds is getting harder and harder), but one cannot avoid fluoride when it is put into the public water supplies. So, in addition to our concern over the toxicity of fluoride, we note the uncontrolled - and apparently uncontrollable - exposures to fluoride that are occurring nationwide via drinking water, processed foods, fluoride pesticide residues and dental care products. A recent report in the lay media\23, that, according to the Centers for Disease Control, at least 22 percent of America's children now have dental fluorosis, is just one indication of this uncontrolled, excess exposure. The finding of nearly 12 percent incidence of dental fluorosis among children in un-fluoridated Kingston New York\17 is another. For governmental and other organizations to continue to push for more exposure in the face of current levels of over-exposure coupled with an increasing crescendo of adverse toxicity findings is irrational and irresponsible at best. Thus, we took the stand that a policy which makes the public water supply a vehicle for disseminating this toxic and prophylactically useless (via ingestion, at any rate) substance is wrong. We have also taken a direct step to protect the employees we represent from the risks of drinking fluoridated water. We applied EPA's risk control methodology, the Reference Dose, to the recent neurotoxicity data. The Reference Dose is the daily dose, expressed in milligrams of chemical per kilogram of body weight, that a person can receive over the long term with reasonable assurance of safety from adverse effects. Application of this methodology to the Varner et al.\4 data leads to a Reference Dose for fluoride of 0.000007 mg/kg-day. Persons who drink about one quart of fluoridated water from the public drinking water supply of the District of Columbia while at work receive about 0.01mg/kg-day from that source alone. This amount of fluoride is more than 100 times the Reference Dose. On the basis of these results the union filed a grievance, asking that EPA provide un-fluoridated drinking water to its employees. The implication for the general public of these calculations is clear. Recent, peer-reviewed toxicity data, when applied to EPA's standard method for controlling risks from toxic chemicals, require an immediate halt to the use of the nation's drinking water reservoirs as disposal sites for the toxic waste of the phosphate fertilizer industry\24. This document was prepared on behalf of the National Treasury Employees Union Chapter 280 by Chapter Senior Vice-President J. William Hirzy, Ph.D. For more information please call Dr. Hirzy at 202-260-4683. His E-mail address is END NOTE LITERATURE CITATIONS 1.Applying the NAEP code of ethics to the Environmental Protection Agency and the fluoride in drinking water standard. Carton, R.J. and Hirzy, J.W. Proceedings of the 23rd Ann. Conf. of the National Association of Environmental Professionals. 20-24 June, 1998. GEN 51- 61. On-line at URL http//:www.rvi.net/~fluoride/naep.htm 2.Neurotoxicity of sodium fluoride in rats. Mullenix, P.J., Denbesten, P.K., Schunior, A. and Kernan, W.J. Neurotoxicol. Teratol. 17 169-177 (1995) 3. Influence of chronic fluorosis on membrane lipids in rat brain. Z.Z. Guan, Y.N. Wang, K.Q. Xiao, D.Y. Dai, Y.H. Chen, J.L. Liu, P. Sindelar and G. Dallner, Neurotoxicology and Teratology 20 537-542 (1998). 4. Chronic administration of aluminum- fluoride or sodium-fluoride to rats in drinking water: alterations in neuronal and cerebrovascular integrity. Varner, J.A., Jensen, K.F., Horvath, W. And Isaacson, R.L. Brain Research 784 284-298 (1998). 5. Effect of high fluoride water supply on children's intelligence. Zhao, L.B., Liang, G.H., Zhang, D.N., and Wu, X.R. Fluoride 29 190- 192 (1996) 6.. Effect of fluoride exposure on intelligence in children. Li, X.S., Zhi, J.L., and Gao, R.O. Fluoride 28 (1995). 7. Effect of fluoride on the physiology of the pineal gland. Luke, J.A. Caries Research 28 204 (1994). 8. Newburgh-Kingston caries-fluorine study XIII. Pediatric findings after ten years. Schlesinger, E.R., Overton, D.E., Chase, H.C., and Cantwell, K.T. JADA 52 296-306 (1956). 9. Memorandum dated May 1, 1990. Fluoride Conference to Review the NTP Draft Fluoride Report; Wm. L. Marcus, Senior Science Advisor ODW; Alan B. Hais, Acting Director Criteria & Standards Division ODW. 10. Toxicology and carcinogenesis studies of sodium fluoride in F344/N rats and B6C3F1 mice. NTP Report No. 393 (1991). 11a. Chromosome aberrations, sister chromatid exchanges, unscheduled DNA synthesis and morphological neoplastic transformation in Syrian hamster embryo cells. Tsutsui et al. Cancer Research 44 938-941 (1984). 11b. Cytotoxicity, chromosome aberrations and unscheduled DNA synthesis in cultured human diploid fibroblasts. Tsutsui et al. Mutation Research 139 193-198 (1984). 11c. Positive mouse lymphoma assay with and without S-9 activation; positive sister chromatid exchange in Chinese hamster ovary cells with and without S-9 activation; positive chromosome aberration without S-9 activation. Toxicology and carcinogenesis studies of sodium fluoride in F344/N rats and B6C3F1 mice. NTP Report No. 393 (1991). 11d. An increase in the number of Down's syndrome babies born to younger mothers in cities following fluoridation. Science and Public Policy 12 36-46 (1985). 12. A brief report on the association of drinking water fluoridation and the incidence of osteosarcoma among young males. Cohn, P.D. New Jersey Department of Health (1992). 13. Surveillance, epidemiology and end results (SEER) program. National Cancer Institute in Review of fluoride benefits and risks. Department of Health and Human Services. F1-F7 (1991). 14. New evidence on fluoridation. Diesendorf, M., Colquhoun, J., Spittle, B.J., Everingham, D.N., and Clutterbuck, F.W. Australian and New Zealand J. Public Health. 21 187-190 (1997). 15a. Regional variation in the incidence of hip fracture: U.S. white women aged 65 years and older. Jacobsen, S.J., Goldberg, J., Miles, ,T.P. et al. JAMA 264 500-502 (1990) 15b. Hip fracture and fluoridation in Utah's elderly population. Danielson, C., Lyon, J.L., Egger, M., and Goodenough, G.K. JAMA 268 746-748 (1992). 15c. The association between water fluoridation and hip fracture among white women and men aged 65 years and older: a national ecological study. Jacobsen, S.J., Goldberg, J., Cooper, C. and Lockwood, S.A. Ann. Epidemiol.2 617-626 (1992). 15d. Fluorine concentration is drinking water and fractures in the elderly [letter]. Jacqmin-Gadda, H., Commenges, D. and Dartigues, J.F. JAMA 273 775-776 (1995). 15e. Water fluoridation and hip fracture [letter]. Cooper, C., Wickham, C.A.C., Barker, D.J.R. and Jacobson, S.J. JAMA 266 513-514 (1991). 16. Water fluoridation and tooth decay: Results from the 1986-1987 national survey of U.S. school children. Yiamouyannis, J. Fluoride 23 55-67 (1990). 17. Recommendations for fluoride use in children. Kumar, J.V. and Green, E.L. New York State Dent. J. (1998) 40-47. 18. Why I changed my mind about water fluoridation. Colquhoun, J. Perspectives in Biol. And Medicine 41 1-16 (1997). 19. A re-examination of the pre-eruptive and post-eruptive mechanism of the anti-caries effects of fluoride: is there any anti-caries benefit from swallowing fluoride? Limeback, H. Community Dent. Oral Epidemiol. 27 62-71 (1999). 20. Fluoride supplements for young children: an analysis of the literature focussing on benefits and risks. Riordan, P.J. Community Dent. Oral Epidemiol. 27 72-83 (1999). 21. Prevention and reversal of dental caries: role of low level fluoride. Featherstone, J.D. Community Dent. Oral Epidemiol. 27 31-40 (1999). 22. Appendix H. Review of fluoride benefits and risks. Department of Health and Human Services. H1-H6 (1991). 23.Some young children get too much fluoride. Parker-Pope, T. Wall Street Journal Dec. 21, 1998. 24. Letter from Rebecca Hanmer, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Water, to Leslie Russell re: EPA view on use of by-product fluosilicic (sic) acid as low cost source of fluoride to water authorities. March 30, 1983. OTHER CITATIONS (This short list does not include the entire literature on fluoride effects) a. Exposure to high fluoride concentrations in drinking water is associated with decreased birth rates. Freni, S.C. J. Toxicol. Environ. Health 42 109-121 (1994) b. Ameliorative effects of reduced food-borne fluoride on reproduction in silver foxes. Eckerlin, R.H., Maylin, G.A., Krook, L., and Carmichael, D.T. Cornell Vet. 78 75-91 (1988). c. Milk production of cows fed fluoride contaminated commercial feed. Eckerlin, R.H., Maylin, G.A., and Krook, L. Cornell Vet. 76 403-404 (1986). d. Maternal-fetal transfer of fluoride in pregnant women. Calders, R., Chavine, J., Fermanian, J., Tortrat, D., and Laurent, A.M. Biol. Neonate 54 263-269 (1988). e. Effects of fluoride on screech owl reproduction: teratological evaluation, growth, and blood chemistry in hatchlings. Hoffman, D.J., Pattee, O.H., and Wiemeyer, S.N. Toxicol. Lett. 26 19-24 (1985). f. Fluoride intoxication in dairy calves. Maylin, G.A., Eckerlin, R.H., and Krook, L. Cornell Vet. 77 84-98 (1987). g. Fluoride inhibition of protein synthesis. Holland, R.I. Cell Biol. Int. Rep. 3 701-705 (1979). h. An unexpectedly strong hydrogen bond: ab initio calculations and spectroscopic studies of amide-fluoride systems. Emsley, J., Jones, D.J., Miller, J.M., Overill, R.E. and Waddilove, R.A. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 103 24-28 (1981). i. The effect of sodium fluoride on the growth and differentiation of human fetal osteoblasts. Song, X.D., Zhang, W.Z., Li, L.Y., Pang, Z.L., and Tan, Y.B. Fluoride 21 149-158 (1988). j. Modulation of phosphoinositide hydrolysis by NaF and aluminum in rat cortical slices. Jope, R.S. J. Neurochem. 51 1731-1736 (1988). k. The crystal structure of fluoride-inhibited cytochrome c peroxidase. Edwards, S.L., Poulos, T.L., Kraut, J. J. Biol. Chem. 259 12984-12988 (1984). l. Intracellular fluoride alters the kinetic properties of calcium currents facilitating the investigation of synaptic events in hippocampal neurons. Kay, A.R., Miles, R., and Wong, R.K.S. J. Neurosci. 6 2915-2920 (1986). m. Fluoride intoxication: a clinical-hygienic study with a review of the literature and some experimental investigations. Roholm, K. H.K. Lewis Ltd (London) (1937). n. Toxin-induced blood vessel inclusions caused by the chronic administration of aluminum and sodium fluoride and their implications for dementia. Isaacson, R.L., Varner, J.A., and Jensen, K. F. Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 825 152-166 (1997). o. Allergy and hypersensitivity to fluoride. Spittle, B. Fluoride 26 267-273 (1993) ********************************************************************** **************** Please distribute this information widely and educate your friends and neighbours about this outrageous assault on the human race, and earth itself. Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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