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FLUORIDE ACTION NETWORK
http://www.FluorideAction.net

FAN Bulletin 748: Welcome News

Jan 18, 2007

Dear All, 

Yesterday, the citizens of Juneau, Alaska received the welcome news (see
below) that, as of last Monday, fluoride is no longer going into their water
supply. Hopefully in 2007, many more American, Australian, British,
Canadian, Irish, Korean, Malaysian and New Zealand citizens will get the
same welcome news. The house of cards of one of the biggest frauds ever
perpetuated in public health is collapsing under the weight of new
scientific evidence. For those of us who have closely followed the
scientific literature, this has been apparent since the 1990s, but for those
who haven?t, the issue of fluoride?s dangers, and the foolishness of
deliberately adding this substance to the drinking water at 250 times the
level found in mothers milk (1 ppm versus 0.004 ppm), was made clearly
visible in the 500 page report of the National Research Council (2006).

It is not by chance that the ADA, the CDC and the AWWA have gone out of
their way to deny the significance of this report, because it represents the
death blow to this foolish practice. The ADA on Nov 9 let the cat out of the
bag by recommending that parents not give fluoridated water to babies, but
sadly, too many journalists have played into the fluoridation promoters
hands by not giving much coverage to the NRC report or the ADA
recommendation.

As Dr. Robert Carton, a former scientist at the US EPA wrote to me this
morning, the NRC report ?should be the centerpiece of every discussion, but
most of the time it is not even mentioned...the NRC report changes
everything.?? 

Our task is to get as many people as possible to read this report: citizens,
public officials, scientists, and, of course, the media. Those who read this
report with an unprejudiced mind will see that it is time (way past time) to
end water fluoridation. In my view, there was no adequate margin of safety
between the level at which fluoride is added (1 ppm) supposedly to fight
tooth decay and the level (4 ppm) at which the EPA requires natural fluoride
to be removed. Now that the NRC has called upon the EPA to lower this
standard from 4 ppm, there is absolutely no way of protecting the whole
population from dangerous exposures. To deny this is to demonstrate to the
world either that you are more interested in protecting a policy than
protecting the people, or you have little idea of the difference between a
water concentration in (mg/liter) and a dose (mg/day). Barring accidents, a
concentration can be controlled by engineers at the water plant, but no one
can control the dose that each individual may receive, because people drink
different amounts of water and get different amounts of fluoride from the
multitude of sources which come at us each day. We are being overdosed on
fluoride and it is time to stop this nonsense once and for all.

To get a paperback version of the NRC report ( ?Fluoride in Drinking Water:
A Scientific Review of EPA?s Standards?) order online at
http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11571.html . With shipping it cost $55. That is
the best investment any opponent of fluoridation could ever make. After
reading just a few pages you will have the satisfaction of knowing that you
will have read more on this topic than the vast majority of the ?experts?
who vociferously promote this practice!

Now please read the ?welcome news? from Juneau, Alaska.

Paul Connett

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Web posted January 17, 2007

City stops fluoridating water; traces will linger in some areas

Juneau empire (Juneau, Alaska)

Web posted January 17, 2007

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/011707/loc_20070117024.shtml

Although Juneau authorities stopped putting fluoride into the city water
system on Monday, the chemical will still be coming out of water taps for
days or even months.

It all depends on location, the city said in an explanation on its Web site.

Areas near downtown and closer to water sources, such as the Highlands, the
Cope Park area and the Governor's Mansion, should be fluoride-free within
days.

Residents served by the million-gallon reservoir at Lena Point, in locations
such as Randall Road, Cohen Drive and some parts of the Mendenhall Valley,
are unlikely to be completely fluoride-free for a few months.

The Juneau Assembly on Dec. 11 directed the city manager to cease water
fluoridation as of Monday.?

People with questions may call the CBJ Water Utility Division at 780-6888.
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