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End Fluoridation, Say 500 Physicians, Dentists, Scientists AndEnvironmentalists

Main Category: Dentistry Also Included In: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Article Date: 10 Aug 2007 - 1:00 PST

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In a statement releasedrecently, over 600professionals are urgingCongress to stop waterfluoridation untilCongressional hearings areconducted. They cite newscientific evidence thatfluoridation, long promoted to fight tooth decay, is ineffective and has serious healthrisks. ( http://www.fluorideaction.org/statement.august.2007.html )

Signers include a Nobel Prize winner, three members of the prestigious 2006National Research Council (NRC) panel that reported on fluoride's toxicology, twoofficers in the Union representing professionals at EPA headquarters, the Presidentof the International Society of Doctors for the Environment, and hundreds of medical,dental, academic, scientific and environmental professionals, worldwide.

Signer Dr. Arvid Carlsson, winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize for Medicine, says,"Fluoridation is against all principles of modern pharmacology. It's really obsolete."

Paul Connett, PhD, Executive Director of the Fluoride Action Network (FAN),announced that an Online Action Petition to Congress in support of theProfessionals' Statement will soon be available at FAN's web site,http://www.fluorideaction.org .

"The NRC report dramatically changed scientific understanding of fluoride's healthrisks," says Connett. "Government officials who continue to promote fluoridationmust testify under oath as to why they are ignoring the powerful evidence of harm inthe NRC report," he added.

An Assistant NY State Attorney General calls the report "the most up-to-date expertauthority on the health effects of fluoride exposure."

The Professionals' Statement also references:

-- The new American Dental Association policy recommending infant formula NOT beprepared with fluoridated water.

-- The CDC's concession that the predominant benefit of fluoride is topical notsystemic.

-- CDC data showing that dental fluorosis, caused by fluoride over-exposure, nowimpacts one third of American children.

-- Major research indicating little difference in decay rates between fluoridated andnon-fluoridated communities.

-- A Harvard study indicating a possible link between fluoridation and bone cancer .

-- The silicofluoride chemicals used for fluoridation are contaminated industrial wasteand have never been FDA- approved for human ingestion.

The Environmental Working Group (EWG), a DC watchdog, revealed that a Harvardprofessor concealed the fluoridation/bone cancer connection for three years. EWGPresident Ken Cook states, "It is time for the US to recognize that fluoridation hasserious risks that far outweigh any minor benefits, and unlike many otherenvironmental issues, it's as easy to end as turning off a valve at the water plant."

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posted by Lorraine Buell on 28 Aug 2007 at 8:23 am

Interesting article about getting the flouride out of water. But what about all thosetoothpastes out there? It's very hard to find an effective toothpaste that doesn'tcontain an unhealthy dose of this chemical. What can be done about that?

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