Warning - do not give fluoridated tap water to babies!
New evidence (2001) fluoridation causes Bone Cancer in Young Males
Click here for a more in-depth discussion of the case against fluoridation. The absence of any proof of safety is accepted by all governments of continental Europe, and the York Review 2000 found no proof of safety.
The US EPA, a traditionally pro-fluoride body, acknowledged in 2002 that the silicofluorides used today have never been tested for human health safety.
Since the Public Health Commission reports in 1994 and 1995, considerable independent research has both confirmed the claims of adverse health effects opponents have made since its inception, and revealed further health dangers.
1995: Dr Phyllis Mullinex demonstrates Central Nervous System damage in rats at the same blood-fluoride levels as humans drinking fluoridated water.
1997: Jennifer Luke, UK, demonstrates accumulation of up to 22,000ppm fluoride in the pineal gland. This is followed in 2001 by proof that this inhibits production of the hormone melatonin.
Accumulation in other soft tissue, though denied by promoters, has been shown since the 1950's in the aorta for example.
Approximately 10% of laboratory animals show retinal damage from normal levels of fluoriode exposure.
1998: Varner et al show that aluminium-fluoride complexes cause alzheimer like damage to the brain.
2002: Strunecka et al show that aluminium-fluoride complexes cause disruption to G-protein metabolism, relating to cell-triggering mechanisms. One of these G-proteins in present in 50% of human cancers.
Aluminium is added to water supplies to clarify the water. We also have exposure through soft drink and beer cans.
1999: Drs Masters and Coplan demonstrate an increased uptake in Lead with silicofluorides now used in water fluoridation, as opposed to the original sodium fluoride. At first dismissed by the EPA this is later accepted and in part leads to the EPA's change in position in 2002. Lead occurs in the exposed solder joints of all canned food where there is no plastic inner lining.
The silicofluoride used is toxic waste, not pharmaceutical or food grade, and is contaminated with an undisclosed amount of heavy metals such as lead, Mercury, Arsenic, and Cadmium.
If used for baby milk formula it results in 80 times the normal intake from breast milk. Swedish research also shows that the samll quantity consumed from breast milk is excreted, not used by the baby.
1943: Journal of the American Medical Association describes fluoride as:
"Fluorides are general protoplasmic poisons, with the capacity to modify cell metabolism, changing the permeability of the cell membrane by inhibiting certain enzymes. Sources of fluoride intoxication include drinking water containing 1ppm or more of fluorine."
In 1966 the US FDA banned fluoride tablets for pregnant women, because of evidence of causing birth deformities. On tablet is the sam amount of fluoride consumed in a day from fluoridated water.
In 1977 Dr Albert Schatz, Nobel laureate in medicine, showed that the underprivileged (hence undernourished) had higher death rates whne drinking fluorifdated water.
Proven increase in osteosarcomas in adolescent males.
50% of ingested fluoride is stored in the bones. A lifetime exposure can lead to skeletal fluorosis, with similar initial symptoms to arthritis, which has increased markedly in recent years, and may in fact be misdiagnosed skeletal fluorosis as acknowledged by WHO (below). Dental fluorosis has increased markedly since fluoridation. This is the first sign of fluoride poisoning and (unseen) skeletal fluorosis. Treatment for dental fluorosis costs more in the US and Canada today than treating tooth decay!
In 1970 the World Health Organisation published the following:
"At higher levels of ingestion - from 2 to 8 mg daily, skeletal fluorosis may arise ... Whereas dental fluorosis is easily recognised, the skeletal involvement is not clinically obvious until the advanced stage of crippling fluorosis ... early cases may be misdiagnosed as rheumatoid or osteoarthritis.”
- Fluorides and Human Health, 1970 pages 239-240
Note that 2 mg per day is thge amount New Zealanders get if their water is fluoridated, given the dietary background amount of 1 mg per day.
Evidence of links with increased hip fracture, but this is difficult to prove due to the low levels of incidence. There is experimental evidence of increased brittleness after prolonged exposure resulting in elevated levels of fluoride in the bones.
A proportion of the population are allergic to fluoride, suffering symptoms from mild gastro-intesinal disorders to arthritis and chronic fatigue. Some rare instances of death have been recorded. (Note that some people are allergic to penicillin and aspirin, with potentially fatal reactions - we don't give these substances to them. Why is fluoride different?)
Fluoride reduces thyroid activity. In the 1930s – 1950s fluoride was actually prescribed as a medication to treat hyperthyroidism (over active thyroid) by reducing activity.
Those with impaired kidney function cannot cope with more than about 0.3ppm in the water - the maximum natural level in New Zealand. They are not even warned by the Ministry of health, let alone safeguarded from harm.
- UNICEF
