Re: Profes urge Congress to stop Fluoride in Water

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Profes Urge End to Fluoride in Water Posted: Aug 2, 2008 8:58 AM

New York - Aug 2, 2008 -- Over 1,780 professionals signed a statement urging US Congress to stop water fluoridation until Congressional hearings are conducted. They cite new scientific evidence that fluoridation, long promoted to fight tooth decay, is ineffective and has serious health risks. See statement: http://www.fluorideaction.org/statement.august.2007.htmlFluoridation is the addition of fluoride chemicals (usually phosphate fertilizer industry's impure waste, silicofluorides) into drinking water ostensibly to prevent cavities in tap water drinkers..Signers include a Nobel Prize winner, three members of the prestigious 2006 National Research Council (NRC) panel that reported on fluoride’s toxicology (including Dr. Hardy Limeback, Head of Preventive Dentistry, University of Toronto), three officers in the Union representing professionals at EPA headquarters, the President of 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.â€An Online Action Petition to Congress in support of the Professionals' Statement is available on FAN's web site, http://congress.fluorideaction.net and over 13,800 individuals have signed so far. Please join them.“The NRC report dramatically changed scientific understanding of fluoride's health risks," says Connett, PhD, Executive Director, Fluoride Action Network. "Government officials who continue to promote fluoridation must testify under oath as to why they are ignoring the powerful evidence of harm in the NRC report,†he added. As a result of the NRC report, the National Kidney Foundation has dropped its support of fluoridation citing evidence that fluoride harms all those with chronic kidney disease, not just those on dialysis. (2) Also, as a result of the NRC report, both the American Dental Association and the US Centers for Disease Control advise that fluoridated water not be mixed into infant formula.The Professionals’ Statement also references: -- The CDC’s concession that fluoride's predominant benefit is topical not systemic.-- CDC data showing that dental fluorosis, caused by fluoride over-exposure, now impacts one third of American children.-- Major research indicating little difference in decay rates between fluoridated and non-fluoridated communities.-- A Harvard study indicating a possible link between fluoridation and bone cancer. The Environmental Working Group (EWG), a DC watchdog, revealed that a Harvard professor concealed the fluoridation/bone cancer connection for three years. EWG President Ken Cook states, “It is time for the US to recognize that fluoridation has serious risks that far outweigh any minor benefits, and unlike many other environmental issues, it's as easy to end as turning off a valve at the water plant.†Further, researchers reporting in the Oct 6 2007 British Medical Journal indicate that fluoridation, touted as a safe cavity preventive, never was proven safe or effective and may be unethical. (1)April 2008, Health Canada recommended that fluoride levels be lowered in Canadian water supplies, children's toothpaste and infant formula. "The best way to lower children’s fluoride intake, as Health Canada suggests, is to stop fluoridation," says Connett. "It makes no sense to prescribe fluoride drugs to children via the water supply at levels which are between 150 and 250 times higher than the level in mothers’ milk.†New science indicating fluoride’s dangers to the brain and other organs will be presented by prominent fluoride research scientists during back-to-back conferences of the International Society for Fluoride Research (ISFR) and the Fluoride Action Network (FAN) in Toronto August 7-11. For details on both conferences go to http://www.FluorideAlert.org For the CSE/FAN public events go to http://fluoridealert.org/august.11.html Psssst...Have you heard the news? There's a new fashion blog, plus the latest fall trends and hair styles at StyleList.com.