Physician Group Rejects Fluoridation

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>New York - October 8, 2008 – “Fluoridation of drinking water is

>scientifically untenable, and should not be part of a public health

>initiative or program,” says the Canadian Association of Physicians

>for the Environment (CAPE) in a new published statement.

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>CAPE is Canada’s leading voice on environmental health issues.

>Fluoridation is the addition of fluoride chemicals to tap water as a

>drug to ostensibly prevent tooth decay.

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>Against a backdrop of intense opposition to the fluoridation of public

>drinking water in several communities in Alberta, Ontario and Quebec,

>CAPE asserts:

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>A) fluoridation is unlikely to be the cause of the cavity decline in

>Europe and North America,

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>B) the potential for fluoride’s adverse effects is real, and

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>C) current evidence points in the direction of caution.

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>Paul Connett, PhD, Executive Director, Fluoride Action Network says,

>“CAPE joins a growing list of environmental health experts who have

>called for an end to the fluoridation of public drinking water.

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>They include:

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>• Vyvyan Howard, MD, PhD, President, International Society of Doctors

>for the Environment

>• Ken Cook and Richard Wiles, Environmental Working Group

>• Lois Gibbs, Center for Health, Environment, and Justice

>• Joseph Mercola, Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine

>• Theo Colborn, PhD, co-author, “Our Stolen Future”

>• Sam Epstein, MD, Chairman, Cancer Prevention Coalition

>• The current and six past Presidents of the International Academy of

>Oral Medicine and Toxicology

>• Board of Directors (2007), American Academy of Environmental

>Medicine

>• FIVE Goldman Prize winners

>

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>These are among over 1800 professionals who have signed a statement

>calling for an end to fluoridation worldwide see

>http://www.FluorideAlert.org/professionals.statement.html

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>According to Connett, “Citizens facing well-financed efforts to

>fluoridate their communities need to know that US governmental

>agencies (particularly the CDC) are ignoring the voluminous body of

>scientific evidence on the adverse effects of fluoride. The National

>Research Council of the National Academies published a landmark report

>on these effects in 2006. More than 2 years after its release, CDC

>and fluoridation promoting agencies in Australia, Canada, Ireland,

>Israel, New Zealand and the UK act as if this report was never

>published. We urge communities to reject fluoridation proposals until

>promoters can provide a rational scientific response to fluoride’s

>dangers, which includes 23 peer-reviewed and published studies

>indicating that fluoride can lower children’s IQ. Fluoridation exposes

>infants to 250 times the level of fluoride in human breast milk. That

>is reckless.”

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>CAPE’s statement is online at http://fluoridealert.org/cape.html

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>Take Action to Stop Fluoridation here: http://congress.FluorideAction.Net

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>SOURCE: Fluoride Action Network http://www.FluorideAction.Net