Grassroots organization POWA launches campaign to outlaw fluoridation of municip

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Grassroots organization POWA launches campaign to outlaw fluoridation of

municipal water supplies

http://www.newstarget.com/021730.html

 

Whenever a faucet is turned on, the question looms as to the safety of the

water that flows out of it. The practice of water fluoridation is a

controversial issue which affects families around the world. The Union of

Concerned

Scientists has called for a moratorium on water fluoridation until an

independent

panel can conduct research on the health and environmental effects of fluoride.

 

The Protect Our Water Alliance (POWA), an independent, grassroots initiative,

has started an online petition to urge Congress to fully investigate basic

safety questions about water fluoridation, including the use of silicofluorides.

The alliance was started by a group of concerned citizens from varied

backgrounds to raise awareness about environmental health concerns regarding

fluoride

and fluorine compounds.

 

Using online campaigns to inform and inspire individuals and organizations

around the world, POWA addresses the basis of the public policy and practice of

water fluoridation. They also address other uses of fluoride and fluorine

compounds that may result in environmental contamination and/or detrimental

health

effects.

 

The Union of Concerned Scientists is asking EPA administrator Stephen Johnson

to reduce the Maximum Contaminant Level Goal for fluoride in drinking water

from four parts per million to zero, based on the evidence of fluoride's

connection to carcinogens.

 

In March 2006, a National Research Council panel of the National Academy of

Sciences released a report of their in-depth study of fluoride toxicity,

completed at the request of the EPA. The panel concluded that the current EPA

safety

standards for fluoride in water supplies are not protective of the safety of

Americans.

 

The 450-page report details the many health risks from overexposure to

fluoride, and makes many recommendations for further scientific research on the

health effects of fluoride.

 

According to many critics of mass fluoridation, fluoride ingestion by our

children is out of control, given the skyrocketing rise in dental fluorosis in

fluoridated communities. Dental fluorosis is recognized by scientists world-wide

as the first clinical sign of fluoride poisoning.

 

" The mass fluoridation of municipal water supplies is a decades-long medical

hoax perpetrated on the citizens of many nations around the world, " explained

Mike Adams, creator of the popular CounterThink cartoon on fluoride, found at

http://www.newstarget.com/021115.html

 

" The fluoride used in city water supplies is a toxic waste product with

proven detrimental health effects to those who consume it, " Adams continued.

" Those

dentists and doctors who promote the mass poisoning of the population with

this EPA-regulated toxic waste chemical are engaged in a destructive and harmful

con job on their fellow citizens. "

 

Fluoride causes bone cancer

 

A paper by Dr. Elise Bassin, based on her 2001 doctoral thesis, was published

in April 2006 through the mainstream journal Cancer Causes and Control. Dr.

Bassin claims that boys who are exposed to water fluoridation between ages 6-8

have a five-fold chance of developing osteosarcoma, a rare and usually fatal

form of bone cancer, some years later.

 

Other well-documented sources have also raised serious allegations related to

the decisions and methods used to institute, implement, and promote water

fluoridation as a U.S. public health policy.

 

According to POWA, some recent significant developments and trends have

permanently changed the water fluoridation issue:

 

• A 1998-2000 investigation into fluoridation by the U.S. House Committee on

Science ,which exposed the gross inadequacy of testing, approval and

regulation of fluoridation chemicals.

 

• General acceptance of new research showing that fluoride's

cavity-preventing effect on teeth is primarily topical, not systemic (meaning

that while it

may work if swished around the mouth, it does not work by swallowing it).

Swallowing fluoride to prevent tooth decay is like drinking sun lotion to

prevent a

sunburn.

 

• Dramatic increases in the prevalence and severity of dental fluorosis - a

clear and visible sign of fluoride toxicity in children - resulting from

excessive fluoride intake from multiple sources.

 

• A growing body of peer-reviewed scientific data linking fluoride intake to

a number of adverse health effects, including hip fractures, endocrine

disruption, central nervous system disorders, and bone cancer.

 

No scientific debate allowed on fluoride

 

Fluoridation proponents often assert that there is no legitimate scientific

controversy over the benefits or safety of this measure. At the same time, they

have refused to openly discuss the risks and benefits of water fluoridation.

 

National publicity regarding an apparent cover-up of the fluoride-bone cancer

link by Dr. Chester Douglass of the Harvard School of Dental Medicine is

especially disturbing. Douglass is currently under investigation for possible

ethics violations involving suppression of a rigorous Harvard doctoral study

showing strong evidence of bone cancer in young men after earlier exposure to

water

fluoridation.

 

He has been accused by a respected Washington watchdog organization, the

Environmental Working Group (www.EWG.org), of covering up these findings. The

Harvard professor also serves as editor of a newsletter produced by fluoride

toothpaste manufacturer Colgate-Palmolive.

 

The industrial waste products used as fluoridating agents (primarily

silicofluorides), which are contaminated with known carcinogens and neurotoxins,

have

not been tested or approved by the EPA or the FDA for safety or effectiveness.

 

Fluoridation is a global threat to public health

 

The health problems caused by fluoride are not limited to the U.S. There are

approximately 20 nations around the world suffering the devastating health

effects of fluoride ingestion through food and water, including China,

Australia,

Israel and Turkey. The research revealing these health effects is

well-documented and the results are staggering.

 

And these problems are not just limited to the water. According to POWA, the

potential health hazards are the result of " cumulative doses of fluoride from

many sources, including dental treatments and products, fluoride-based

pesticides, processed foods and beverages, pharmaceuticals, and industrial

emissions. "

 

The POWA petition will be submitted to Congress and accompanied by a cover

letter listing all the latest developments which will stress the need for

support in forming a moratorium on fluoride as well as a Congressional

investigation. To sign the petition, visit: http://www.powalliance.org/petition