Businessportal24: Arsenic Found in Fluoride Chemicals Added to Drinking Water

[Guest guest]

If they care that much about our cavities that they add fluoride to

our water(which is unscientific itself) then surely they care enough

about our health to remove the clearly well known and documented

poisons of arsenic, barium, antimony, etc. Right?

 

Or is it too expensive, too difficult? Then just how concerned

about our health are they, really?..

Misty L. Trepke

http://health.

 

New York – March 2007 -- Trace amounts of arsenic are found in

fluoride chemicals added to drinking water supplies, reports the

U.S. Centers for Disease Control's (CDC) website. (1)

 

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Fluoridation is a controversial attempt to reduce tooth decay in tap-

water consumers.

 

Fluoridation chemicals - sodium fluoride, sodium fluorosilicate, and

fluorosilicic acid (FSA) – are all derived from the manufacture of

phosphate fertilizer, reports the CDC. Trace amounts of unwanted

contaminants, such as antimony, barium, beryllium, arsenic and

others, are allowed to remain in

fluoridation chemicals before flowing through America's faucets (2)

 

The CDC reports, tests by National Sanitation Foundation (NSF)

revealed arsenic was present in sample batches of FSA. When trace

amounts were present, the treated water had an average of 0.43 parts

per billion (ppb) of arsenic, with a high of 1.66 ppb attributable

to the fluoride additive. (2)

 

The NSF sets the allowable level of arsenic in fluoridation

chemicals at 2.5 ppb. The maximum contaminant level (MCL) of arsenic

in treated water is 10 ppb, set by the Environmental Protection

Agency. But the maximum contaminant level goal (MCLG) of arsenic in

drinking water is zero (5) and is based on health risks; however,

the actual level permitted (MCL) is above 0, to account for

difficulty in removing it or in measuring it. (6)

 

" No water company should purposely be adding arsenic to water

supplies –even when it's attached to a chemical perceived to be

beneficial, " says Beeber.

 

Trace levels of arsenic in drinking water increase a person's risk

of developing cancer, according to a report from the prestigious US

National Academy of Sciences. " People drinking water containing just

one part per billion of arsenic have an increased risk of developing

bladder or lung cancer of one in 1,000, " reports New Scientist

magazine. (3)

 

In an analysis of 25 states, the National Resources Defense Council

found about 8,000 U.S. water systems, serving 57,000,000 people,

contained arsenic levels at 1 ppb or higher.(4)

 

" Fluoridation has proven useless in fighting tooth decay in

America's low-income population as the recent unfortunate `tooth-

decay' death of a 12-year-old Maryland boy living in a fluoridated

area has proven, " says lawyer Paul Beeber, President, New York State

Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation. " No child is or ever was fluoride-

deficient. But many are dentist-deficient, " says Beeber.

 

" Besides, modern science establishes that fluoridation is

ineffective at reducing tooth decay, harmful to health and a waste

of taxpayer money, " says Beeber.

 

References:

 

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