Dr. Mercola August 14 2007 42,719 views
A statement asking Congress to end water fluoridation in the United States has been released by the Fluoride Action Network (FAN). Over 600 professionals, including a Nobel Prize winner, officers in the Union that represents Environmental Protection Agency professionals, and members of the National Research Council panel on fluoride‘s toxicology, have signed the statement.The report urges Congressional members to “recognize that fluoridation is outdated, has serious risks that far outweigh any minor benefits, violates sound medical ethics, and denies freedom of choice.”It cites eight recent events that call for an urgent end to water fluoridation. Among them:
The statement calls for members of Congress to sponsor a new Congressional Hearing on Fluoridation that requires those who continue to support water fluoridation to provide scientific basis, under oath, for their continued recommendations.According to one of the statement’s signers, Dr. Arvid Carlsson, winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize for Medicine, "Fluoridation is against all principles of modern pharmacology. It‘s really obsolete."
Fluoride Action Network August 9, 2007
Medical News Today August 10, 2007
Finally, Finally, Finally!!!!!
This is great news! However, we must realize that some of these professionals risk their careers to sign and support this proposal. A dentist friend of mine signed this and has already reaceived a phone call and a letter from the state dental association representatives questioning his radical position and warning him that he is exposing himself to possible other actions. He highly expects to receive a visit from OSHA soon.
Why only push for water? Sodium fluoride in toothpaste is swallowed by young children. Sodium fluoride has been used as a rat poison. Various compounds of fluoride are used in water supplies and just because the compound happens to contain the fluoride molecule does not mean that the compound is safe. The water department in my city buys hydroflourosilicic acid, which is a by-product of fertilizer manufacture, to dump into the water of this community at he dosage of 1.0 ppm. There is no good way to dispose of this highly toxic and corrosive substance, so it is sold to cities, in 55 gallon drums with poison labels on them, to be dumped into water supplies and processed by people. This should be considered a criminal act, but it is not. I have seen these drums, and I have seen the corrosion on the drums due to dripping of the compound from these drums I even have pictures of it. All forms of fluoride that do not occur in nature should be considered for extinction. Nature's fluoridated waters cannot be improved upon. And we need to find ways to dispose of toxic fluoride by-products, other than feeding them to Americans.