EPA Scientists & Workers Call for an End to Water Fluoridation Because of cancer risks

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EPA Scientists & Workers Call for an End to Water Fluoridation Because of Cancer

Risks JoAnn Guest Sep 15, 2005 17:19 PDT

 

8/31/05 Author: Press Release, Source: Environment News Service

www.ens-newswire.com

 

 

EPA Scientists & Workers Call for an End to Water Fluoridation Because

of Cancer Risk

http://www.healthliesexposed.com/articles/article_2005_09_3_0205.shtml

 

Environment News Service

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

EPA UNIONS CALL FOR NATIONWIDE MORATORIUM ON FLUORIDATION, CONGRESSIONAL

HEARING ON ADVERSE EFFECTS, YOUTH CANCER COVER UP

 

WASHINGTON, DC, August 30, 2005 --/WORLD-WIRE/-- Eleven EPA employee

unions representing over 7000 environmental and public health

professionals of the Civil Service have called for a moratorium on

drinking water fluoridation programs across the country, and have asked

EPA management to recognize fluoride as posing a serious risk of causing

cancer in people. The unions acted following revelations of an apparent

cover-up of evidence from Harvard School of Dental Medicine linking

fluoridation with elevated risk of a fatal bone cancer in young boys.

 

The unions sent letters to key Congressional committees asking Congress

to legislate a moratorium pending a review of all the science on the

risks and benefits of fluoridation. The letters cited the weight of

evidence supporting a classification of fluoride as a likely human

carcinogen, which includes other epidemiology results similar to those

in the Harvard study, animal studies, and biological reasons why

fluoride can reasonably be expected to cause the bone cancer -

osteosarcoma - seen in young boys and test animals.

 

The unions also pointed out recent work by Richard Maas of the

Environmental Quality Institute, University of North Carolina that links

increases in lead levels in drinking water systems to use of

silicofluoride fluoridating agents with chloramines disinfectant.

 

The letter to EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson asked him to issue a

public warning in the form of an advanced notice of proposed rulemaking

setting the health-based drinking water standard for fluoride at zero,

as it is for all known or probable human carcinogens, pending a

recommendation from a National Academy of Sciences' National Research

Council committee. That committee's work is not expected to be done

before 2006.

 

The unions also asked Congress and EPA's enforcement office, or the

Department of Justice, to look into reasons why the Harvard study

director, Chester Douglass, failed to report the seven-fold increased

risk seen in the work he oversaw, and instead wrote to the National

Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, the federal agency that

funded the Harvard study, saying there was no link between fluoridation

and osteosarcoma. Douglass sent the same negative report to the National

Research Council committee studying possible changes in EPA's drinking

water standards for fluoride.

 

The unions who signed the letters represent EPA employees from across

the nation, including laboratory scientists in Ohio, Oklahoma and

Michigan, regulatory support scientists and other workers at EPA

headquarters in Washington, D.C. and science and regulatory workers in

Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Atlanta, and San Francisco.

 

They are affiliated with the National Treasury Employees Union, the

American Federation of Government Employees, Engineers and Scientists of

California/International Federation of Professional and Technical

Engineers, and the National Association of Government Employee/Service

Employees International Union.

 

The unions' letter is online at:

http://nteu280.org/Issues/Fluoride/fluoridesummary.htm

 

FOR INFORMATION CONTACT:

Dr. William Hirzy Vice-President, NTEU Chapter 280

Phone (cell) 202-285-0498 This is complete notice.

 

USA Citizens can easily back-up the 7,000 EPA 'career employees.'

Consider, you and your family need CLEAN & SAFE Drinking Water, every

day. This is your opportunity to back those 7000+ EPA union members that

care about scientific integrity and exposing the truth about 'corporate

hazardous waste fluorosilicates' being metered into our drinking waters.

Their common sense demand for a 'moratorium on fluoridation' along with

Congressional Investigation incl. 'under oath' hearings is critical!

 

We, the undersigned, join with members of eleven EPA unions in their

call for an immediate Congressional act placing a national moratorium on

water fluoridation pending a full Congressional investigation into this

public policy, which affects - directly and indirectly - every resident

of the United States.

 

Read & Sign Citizens PETITION at:

http://petition.powalliance.org/index.html

http://www.organicconsumers.org/foodsafety/flouride090105.cfm

 

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