Fluoride (generic), Fluoritab News

Dr. William Hirzy, who is vice president of NTEU Chapter 280 (EPA Headquarters) and chemist in residence at American University added, 'One major example of the harm this administration has done to the American people is its failure to respond to the National Research Council Committee on fluoride toxicity report for their 6-year review of the fluoride drinking water standard, which found that EPA's drinking water standard for fluoride does not protect public health. The Committee also found that the evidence for fluoride's carcinogenicity should be taken more seriously by EPA.

Acute high-level exposure to fluoride causes immediate effects of abdominal pain, excessive saliva, nausea and vomiting, according to the World Health Organization.

We now have quite the informative database of articles that pertain to fluoride and their negative impact on our children's health here on SAFbaby.com. The first article we covered on this topic over a year ago, titled Are We Poisoning Our Babies And Children With Fluoride? took a look into the controversy over the "dental benefits of fluoride."

Debbie Baker, right, has lived in Jensen Camp for 30 years and says her two children's teeth were brittle and rotted by the water.

Dr. Scott Tomar worked for the Centers for Disease Control and co-authored articles which underpins two CDC unscientific claims:

1) Fluoridation is "one of the top ten public health achievements of the 20th Century" (ref 1)

2) For every dollar spent on fluoridation $38 is saved on dental health care. (ref 2)

Now working in Florida, Tomar answered five questions submitted by a Gainesville, Florida, water engineer. The Fluoride Action Network responds to Tomar here: http://fluoridealert.org/connett.tomar.oct.2009.pdf

Moving Right Along Services Inc., has helped a 217 + unit Manhattan Co-op rid themselves of Bed Bugs using fluoride.

Foods grown in Idaho can contain dangerous levels of fluoride, according to an abstract to be presented at the 2009 National Environmental Public Health Conference on October 26, 2009 in Atlanta Georgia.

All infant formulas, whether ready-to-feed, concentrated or organic, contain fluoride at levels which can discolor developing teeth, reports the October 2009 Journal of the American Dental Association .

PORTLAND, ME — The race to fill an open seat on the Portland Water District board of trustees has become a referendum on whether the district should continue adding fluoride to water it extracts from Sebago Lake.

One of the candidates, Oliver Outerbridge, is running a single-issue campaign. He opposes water fluoridation, arguing that the "mass medication" with fluoride is potentially harmful to public health.

ANTI FLUORIDE campaigners have been give fresh hope after the scheme to fluoridate Hampshire water supplies was raised in Parliament.

KADAPA: Sixty families migrated from Kothapalle village in Rajampet mandal, where fluoride content in drinking water was high, and the remaining 50 families conveyed to Rajampet tahsildar Gunabhushan Reddy their resolve to vacate the village, if they were not supplied clean potable water.

Cameco senior communications specialist Doug Prendergast said the fluoride levels read 58, when the allowable limit is 40 - but this is only during the growth period for vegetation. "It's all related to agriculture," Prendergast said. "Fluoride can cause damage to vegetation, so it's 40 during the growing season, and it doubles to 80 on Oct. 1," he said.

Cities spend millions of dollars annually putting unnecessary fluoride chemicals into public water supplies to reduce tooth decay. But research published in a dental journal shows no difference in decay rates whether water is fluoridated or not.

The issue of the fluoride-containing Spent Pot Lining took centre stage yesterday, as Senior Counsel Fyard Hosein charged that, 'the Environmental Management Authority failed to give a definitive method by which SPL would be dealt with by Alutrint.' SPL is the substance which lines the smelter pots after aluminium, bauxite, and other substances are smelted ...

Fluoride: Fluoride is added to drinking water, toothpaste, and other dental products. At one time it was believed to be helpful in treating osteoporosis because it does increase the density of some bones. However, it decreases the quality of bone material, weakening the bones and leading to bone fractures. Excessive fluoride can also cause dental fluorosis.

Children's cavity rates are similar whether water is fluoridated or not, according to data published in the July 2009 Journal of the American Dental Association by dentist J.V. Kumar of the NY State Health Department.

Nebraska's largest cities began adding fluoride to their public water systems decades ago.

But the evidence shows it was an unwise decision.

Despite fluoridated public water supplies Oshawa (Ontario, Canada) kids have among the worst decay rates in Canada

Fluoride proved too bitter a pill for Humboldt voters to swallow. The mail-ballot vote on whether to fluoridate Humboldt water was resounding in the negative, with 422 people voting against the proposal and 274 for it despite fluoridation opponents being outspent by fluoridationists 7 to 1 ($5,000 vs. $700)

. Local resident Paul Finney lead the campaign to reject water fluoridation, which is the addtion of fluoride chemicals into public water supplies ostensibly to reduce tooth decay in tap water drinkers. However, recent scientific evidence shows that ingesting fluoride is harmful to health.

Health Canada wants the levels in our tap water cut. Now the fight to ban it outright is back on.